Gregory Serper
| Gregory Serper | |
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| Country | Uzbekistan United States |
| Born | September 14, 1969 Tashkent, Uzbek SSR, Soviet Union |
| Title | Grandmaster (1992) |
| FIDE rating | 2522 (June 2024) |
| Peak rating | 2600 (January 1993) |
Gregory Serper (Russian: Григорий Юрьевич Серпер, romanized: Grigory Yurievich Serper; born September 14, 1969) is a chess grandmaster.[1]
Biography
He was born in Tashkent, in the former Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union (present Uzbekistan). At age 6, he learned to play chess from his grandfather. In 1985, at age 16, he started studies at Moscow's famous Botvinnik-Kasparov Chess School.
During his military service in Novosibirsk, he attended the 27th
In 1992, as a member of the Uzbekistan team, Serper won the silver medal in the 30th Chess Olympiad.
In January 1996 he moved with his family to the
Serper regularly writes articles for Chess.com under the username "Gserper".[6]
Notable game
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Serper-
1.c4 g6 2.e4 Bg7 3.d4 d6 4.Nc3 Nf6 5.Nge2 Nbd7 6.Ng3 c6 7.Be2 a6 8.Be3 h5 9.f3 b5 10.c5 dxc5 11.dxc5 Qc7 12.O-O h4 13.Nh1 Nh5 14.Qd2 e5 15.Nf2 Nf8
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20...axb5 21.axb5 Qxb5 Black returns some material in order to blockade White's pawn. White would be winning after 21...Qb7 22.c6 Rxa1 23.cxb7 Rxf1+ 24.Kxf1 Bxb7 25.Nd3 Nd7 26.Qc2 e4 27.Qc7, or 22...Qb8 23.b6 Rxa1 24.Rxa1 Bd7 25.Qd5! Nf6 26.c7. 22.Rxa8 Qc6 23.Rfa1! f4 24.R1a7! Nd7 Not 24...fxe3? 25.Qd5! Qxd5 26.Rxc8#. Now Black threatens to get his king to safety by castling, so White sacrifices more material.
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25.Rxc8+!! Qxc8 26.Qd5! fxe3 27.Qe6+ Kf8 28.Rxd7! exf2+ 29.Kf1 Qe8
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30.Rf7+! Yet another sacrifice to allow White's d-pawn to promote. After 30.Qxe8+? Kxe8 31.Re7+ Kf8 32.c6 Ng3+! 33.Kxf2 Nf5, White cannot advance his passed pawns. 30... Qxf7 31.Qc8+ Qe8 32.d7 Kf7 33.dxe8=Q+ Rxe8 34.Qb7+ Re7 35.c6! e4! 36.c7 e3 37.Qd5+ Kf6 38.Qd6+ Kf7 39.Qd5+ Kf6 40.Qd6+ Kf7 41.Qxe7+ Kxe7 42.c8=Q Bh6 43.Qc5+ Ke8 44.Qb5+ Kd8 45.Qb6+ Kd7 46.Qxg6 e2+ 47.Kxf2 Be3+! 48.Ke1!
References
- ^ "FIDE Chess Profile" https://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?event=2012642
- ^ Chess Informant, Vol. 46, Šahovski Informator, p. 448
- ^ Here [1] you can find an interesting story about this tournament written by Serper himself.
- time odds, but giving draw odds to Serper. The game ended in a draw after 43 moves. Jerry Hanken, "Serper Breaks Log Jam at WORLD OPEN", Chess Life, October 1999, p. 33.
- ^ Robert Byrne, Boris Gulko Wins U.S. Title, New York Times, September 26, 1999
- ^ "GM Gregory Serper (Gserper) - Chess Profile".
- ^ Chess Informant, Volume 60, Šahovski Informator, 1994, p. 6.
- ISBN 1-901983-25-0.
- ISBN 1-85744-420-5.
- ^ Serper-Nikolaidis, St. Petersburg Open 1993
- ^ Seirawan, p. 162.
- ^ Christiansen, pp. 154-57.
- ISBN 84-87301-91-6.
- ^ Seirawan, pp. 161-67.
External links
- Grigory Serper rating card at FIDE
- Grigory Serper player profile and games at Chessgames.com
- Grigory Serper Chess Olympiad record at OlimpBase.org
- US Chess Federation: Grandmaster Gregory Serper
