Kiril Georgiev

Kiril Dimitrov Georgiev ( Bulgarian Кирил Димитров Георгиев, Research Kiril Dimitrov Georgiev transliteration; born November 28, 1965 in Petrich ) is a Bulgarian chess master.

Georgiev won in 1983 in Belfort, the World Youth Chess Championship. 1985 FIDE awarded him the grandmaster title. He won the championship of Bulgaria in 1984, 1986 and 1989. 1990 he qualified for the Interzonal in Manila, where he. On the 12th-20th Reached space. Georgiev get numerous successes in international tournaments, his biggest tournament wins were San Bernardino in 1988, Elenite 1992 and 1995 (together with Veselin Topalov ), Budapest (Zone tournament ) in 1993, Belgrade 2000, Sarajevo 2001 ( before Topalov ), Bad Wörishofen 2002 Gibraltar 2006.

Georgiev represented internationally Macedonia from 2002 to 2005, since then Bulgaria. His current Elo rating is 2669 (as of March 2010). Last among the top 20 in the world rankings, he was in October 2001.

From February to August 2009 was Georgiev world record holder in simultaneous chess. He played 360 games while at the same time, of which he won 284, played 70 draws and only 6 lost; the success rate was thus over 88 per cent. On 13 August of the same year the record of Morteza Mahjoob from Iran has been ratcheted up to 500 games.