Emil Sutovsky
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Country |
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Born | Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, USSR | September 19, 1977
Title | Grandmaster (1996) |
FIDE rating | 2590 (April 2024) |
Peak rating | 2703 (January 2012) |
Peak ranking | No. 17 (October 2004) |
Emil Sutovsky (born 19 September 1977) is an Israeli chess player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 1996. Sutovsky is the FIDE CEO since 2022. Previously he served as FIDE Director-General (2018-22). He was the president of the Association of Chess Professionals from 2012[2] to 2019.[3]
Successes
Sutovsky learned to play chess at the age of four.
In 2001, Sutovsky won the European Individual Chess Championship after rapid tiebreaks with Ruslan Ponomariov.
In 2003, he tied for first with Alexander Beliavsky in the Vidmar Memorial.[5] In 2007, he placed second at the 8th European Chess Championship, held in Dresden, following a play-off with the eventual winner GM Vladislav Tkachiev and GMs Dmitry Jakovenko and Ivan Cheparinov.
He finished tied for first in two major open tournaments in 2005: in the
Sutovsky played in three
He did not participate in the controversial FIDE World Chess Championship 2004 because of concerns about how its host, Libya, would treat Israeli players.
He took part in Chess World Cup 2005, Chess World Cup 2007, Chess World Cup 2009 and Chess World Cup 2011 with a moderate success. In 2007, Sutovsky became a second of US Grandmaster Gata Kamsky, helping him to win the Chess World Cup 2007.
In September 2009 Sutovsky won Inventi Chess Tournament in Antwerp.[7] In 2011, he tied for 2nd-3rd with Dmitry Andreikin in the Baku Open.[8] After becoming the ACP President, Sutovsky started playing less often. In 2015 he won the prestigious Biel Masters Open Tournament. In 2016 he won the strong Nona 75 – ACP Open in Tbilisi. In April 2017 Sutovsky won the traditional Karpov Tournament in Poikovsky showing the performance of 2902 – statistically the best result in his entire career.[9]
Olympiad career
Sutovsky represented Israel in nine
Playing style
Sutovsky's uncompromising style has attracted a lot of attention: his sacrificial victory over Ilya Smirin in the 2002 Israeli Chess Championship was voted the best game of issue 86 of Chess Informant,[12] and his victory over Daniel Gormally at Gibraltar 2005 earned him the prize for best game.[13] This game was highly praised by FIDE World Champion Viswanathan Anand, who picked this game as the best chess game he had ever seen.[14] Since 2006, he has his own column − "Jeu créateur" ("Creative chess") in major French chess magazine Europe Échecs.
Sutovsky virtually always plays 1.e4 with White, occasionally testing unfashionable or old-fashioned openings such as the
Sutovsky speaks five languages and occasionally participates in trivia contests.
See also
References
- ^ "Sutovsky, Emil". OlimpBase. Retrieved August 3, 2021.
- ^ "New ACP emerges with lofty goals and new events". ChessBase. March 17, 2012. Retrieved February 14, 2016.
- ^ "New ACP Officers". ACP. 2019-03-21. Retrieved 2019-04-02.
- ISBN 1-84119-905-2.
- ^ "Dr. Milan Vidmar Memorial Tournaments". sah-zveza.si. Archived from the original on February 8, 2012. Retrieved April 6, 2010.
- ^ Crowther, Mark (February 7, 2005). "TWIC 535: Gibtele.com Masters International". The Week in Chess. Retrieved January 26, 2012.
- ^ "Inventi Chess 2009" (in Dutch). Archived from the original on August 14, 2012. Retrieved October 1, 2009.
- ^ Crowther, Mark (August 16, 2011). "TWIC: Baku Open 2011". The Week in Chess. Retrieved September 15, 2015.
- ^ "The chess games of Emil Sutovsky". www.chessgames.com. Retrieved August 21, 2021.
- ^ Bartelski, Wojciech. "Men's Chess Olympiads: Emil Sutovsky". OlimpBase. Retrieved October 7, 2010.
- ^ "2010 Chess Olympiad Statistical overview". ChessBase. October 5, 2010. Retrieved October 7, 2010.
- ^ "Emil Davidovich Sutovsky vs Ilya Yulyevich Smirin". ChessGames. Retrieved August 15, 2020.
- ^ "Daniel Gormally vs Emil Davidovich Sutovsky". ChessGames. Retrieved August 15, 2020.
- ^ "Just Checking" Questionnaire in: New In Chess Magazine, Issue 3/2005, p.106
External links
- Emil Sutovsky rating card at FIDE
- Emil Sutovsky player profile and games at Chessgames.com
- Emil Sutovsky chess games at 365Chess.com
- Emil Sutovsky player profile at Chess.com
- Emil Sutovsky at Supreme-Chess.com at the Wayback Machine (archived 2007-02-11)