Mikhail Gurevich (chess player)

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Mikhail Gurevich
Gurevich in 2008
Full nameMikhail Naumovich Gurevich
CountrySoviet Union (until 1992)
Belgium (1992–2005)[1]
Turkey (2005–2015)[2]
Belgium (since 2015)[3]
Born (1959-02-22) 22 February 1959 (age 65)
Kharkiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
TitleGrandmaster (1986)
FIDE rating2557 (April 2024)
Peak rating2694 (January 2000)
Peak rankingNo. 5 (January 1990)

Mikhail Gurevich (

International Grandmaster in 1986, and is currently an FIDE
arbiter and senior trainer.

Chess career

Early years

Gurevich won the

Interzonal,[7]
and Gavrikov and Chernin went in his place. According to Gurevich, a Jew, the KGB prevented his journey to the West while they expected he would defect to Israel. {New in Chess, 1991, nr.6, p. 61)].

Gurevich was awarded the

Leningrad after Rafael Vaganian, but ahead of Andrei Sokolov and Artur Yusupov.[8]

Peak

At his peak, between 1989 and 1991, Gurevich was consistently ranked in the top ten players in the world. He took first at

Vassily Ivanchuk, Jaan Ehlvest and Viswanathan Anand and tied for first at Moscow 1990 with Alexander Khalifman and Evgeny Bareev.[8] His highest world ranking was a tie for fifth place on the January 1990 and January 1991 FIDE rating lists (with ratings of 2645 and 2650 respectively).[9]

Struggle and comeback

Mikhail Gurevich's results in the late 1990s were not as impressive as in previous years, but he has since made a comeback. He had achieved his highest rating of 2694 on the January 2001 rating list, which ranked him 14th in the world.[10] In 2001 he won the Belgian Chess Championship with a perfect 9/9 score.

He placed 8th at the 2005 FIDE World Cup, beating

FIDE World Chess Championship 2007, in May–June 2007. He was eliminated in the first round, however, losing his match against Peter Leko 3.5-0.5. In 2006, Gurevich won the Turkish Chess Championship
.

In 2009 he tied for first with Michał Krasenkow at the World Chess Open in Leon.[11]

Team player

In team chess events, he represented the USSR at the 1989 Haifa European Team Chess Championship, winning team gold and individual bronze medals. In 1992, playing for Belgium, he had a fine result at the Manila Chess Olympiad, scoring 75% on board 1. In 2006, playing top board for his second adopted nation, Turkey, at the Turin Olympiad, he registered a respectable 58%.[12]

Expertise

Mikhail Gurevich was also a long-time second to eventual world champion Vishwanathan Anand in the 1990s. He is known as an expert on the

Queen's Indian Defence. In 1991, he wrote a book on the latter, entitled Queen's Indian Defence: Kasparov System, published by Batsford.[13]

In 2006, Gurevich was awarded the title of FIDE senior trainer. He holds the title of FIDE arbiter.

In the Fourth ACP World Rapid Cup knockout tournament, held 27–29 May 2010 in Odesa, Ukraine, Gurevich created a sensation after beating two grandmasters, each rated at over 2700.

Personal life

Gurevich was born 22 February 1959 in

USSR. He lived in Belgium from 1991 to 2005 (after the breakup of the Soviet Union), and since 2006, resides in Turkey.[14]

Notable games

See also

References

  1. ^ "Gurevich, Mikhail". OlimpBase.
  2. ^ "Transfers in 2005". FIDE.
  3. ^ "Transfers in 2015". FIDE.
  4. ^ "Winners of Soviet and Independent Ukraine Chess Championships – Golubev, Mikhail". Archived from the original on 23 July 2008. Retrieved 18 October 2006.
  5. ^ 52nd USSR Championship and Zonal, Riga 1985
  6. ISBN 1-85744-201-6
    .
  7. ^ untitled reference
  8. ^ a b no title given Archived 14 April 2006 at the Wayback Machine; Chessmetrics.com
  9. ^ All Time Rankings Archived 26 November 2009 at the Wayback Machine; Chess Trivia; EUSA
  10. ^ Gurevich, Mikhail: FIDE World Top Chess Player Archived 18 October 2006 at the Wayback Machine
  11. ^ "Michał Krasenkow wins World Chess Open Leon 2010". Chessdom. Archived from the original on 20 February 2012. Retrieved 4 January 2010.
  12. ^ Olympiads and Other Team Event Information; Olimpbase Organization
  13. ISBN -0805023151
    .
  14. ^ Chessgames.com

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