Konstantin Aseev
Konstantin Aseev (October 20, 1960 – August 22, 2004) was a Russian
Grandmaster
and trainer.
Among his tournament successes were first at Leningrad 1989 with 9/13 (beating
Elo rating
was 2511; his peak Elo rating was 2591 in July 2001.
Among the players Aseev trained are
Maya Chiburdanidze, Andrei Kharlov and Evgeny Alekseev
.
Aseev died in St Petersburg after a long battle with cancer on August 22, 2004, a rapid tournament in memory of Aseev was held in St. Petersburg, won by Evgeny Alekseev on tie break from Peter Svidler. All proceeds from the event went to Aseev's family. Aseev's wife was also a master-level chess player.[1]
Here is Aseev's victory with Black over Khalifman at
Algebraic chess notation
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References
External links
- Konstantin Aseev player profile and games at Chessgames.com
- Konstantin Aseev at 365Chess.com