Maxim Sorokin

Maxim Sorokin Ilyich (Russian Максим Ильич Сорокин, scientific transliteration Maksim Sorokin Ilič, born January 22, 1968; † June 30, 2007 in Elista ) was a Russian chess master. Between 1998 and 2002 he represented Argentina international.

Significant successes celebrated Sorokin in the late 1980s. In 1989 he shared second place in Sochi, a year later he won in Minsk, at the U26 championship of the USSR, the young Soviet tournament champion, the bronze medal. In 1991 he was third in the RSFSR Championship. In the same year he won the Soviet National Team Gold students at the World Student Championships in Maringá, Brazil, where it fell to a gold medal for the best result on the fifth board. Also in 1991 he succeeded in Belgorod a shared first place in the qualifying tournament for the last USSR Championship in Moscow in which he took part in the same year. 1992, the year in which his FIDE awarded the grandmaster title, he shared second place (including with Sergei Rubljowski ) in Ostrava, 1993, he won in San Fernando (along with, among others Oscar Panno ) and was winner of the tournament in San Martín ( inter alia Vasily Smyslov ). He finished second after Andrés Rodríguez and shared fourth place in 1996 in Villa Ballester ( with Evgeny Bareev and Vadim Zvyagintsev ) at the Russian Championship in Elista. Sorokin 1997 won first place in Villa Martelli and finished second (after Pablo Ricardi ) at Clarín tournament in Villa Gesell. He repeated the latter success the following year. In 1998 he made ​​his debut in the championship of Argentina and won the bronze medal in the same year he won in Buenos Aires, the open tournament of the Boca Juniors. Other triumphs followed in the next year: shared second place ( with Alexei and Viktor Bologan Drejew ) when Hanibal Open in Linares and in Calcutta ( with Sergei Dolmatow and Jaan Ehlvest ) and Krasnodar ( with Pawel Tregubow ).

In 2000 he was tied for first at the Mikhail Chigorin Memorial in Saint Petersburg and in the Commonwealth Championship in Sangli. In the following years, his international success took off, but he joined a number of tournaments in the enlarged tip from, such as: Calcutta (2001, 7 ½ / 11 ), Dubai (2002, 6/9), Saint Petersburg ( 2002, 6/ 9), Linares (2002, 6 ½ / 10), Bombay (2003, 7/10), Uralsk (2003, 7/10), Cappelle- la -Grande (2004, 6/9), Salechard (2004, 7/ 9), Moscow (2005, Aeroflot Open, 6/9), Linares (2005, 6 ½ / 9), Cappelle- la -Grande (2006 6/9), Tomsk (2006, 6/9), Chelyabinsk ( 2006, 6/ 9) Nizhny Tagil and (2007, 6/ 9).

In 1998, Sorokin for Argentina at the Chess Olympiad in Elista part. He scored on first board 6 ½ out of 13 Also in the next Olympic Games, he was reported for the first board of Argentina, but he did not play a single game.

Sorokin died on 30 June 2007 in a hospital in Elista after he was seriously injured on the way back from Elista to Volgograd in a car accident. In Elista he was Sekundant Sergei Rubljowskis at its candidates fighting for the World Chess Championship 2007.