Sergei Rublevsky

Sergei Vladimirovich Rubljowski (Russian: Сергей Владимирович Рублёвский, scientific transliteration Sergei Vladimirovič Rublëvskij, English and FIDE spelling Sergei Rublevsky; * October 15, 1974 in Kurgan ) is a Russian world-class player in chess.

Rubljowski was the age of eight first - class players, as 13 -year-old he became a master candidate. At first he was a student in the Panchenko chess school, but he was after a big success in a Soviet youth team tournament included in the prestigious Mikhail Botvinnik chess school in which Garry Kasparov also gave lessons ( 6.5 points from 7 games). 1993 Rubljowski won tournaments in Paris, Chelyabinsk and Kurgan his hometown. In 1994 he won again in Kurgan and played for the B team of Russia ( de facto the national youth team ) at the Chess Olympiad in Moscow and won bronze. This year, the FIDE awarded him the grandmaster title. Between 1996 and 2002 he won with Russia at four Chess Olympiads gold. In 1997 he won in Polanica the Akiba Rubinstein Memorial Tournament against Boris Gelfand and Evgeny Bareev. In the same year he won with Russia in Lucerne World Team Championship.

2004 won the Aeroflot Open in Moscow Rubljowski and received an invitation to the Dortmund Chess days in the same year, finishing in seventh place there. In this year's European Cup for club teams in Izmir he managed a victory over the 13th world chess champion Garry Kasparov. 2005, the year in which he once again team world champion with Russia was in Beersheba, he celebrated his biggest success: he won in December aligned in Moscow Russian Championship against world-class players such as Pyotr Svidler and 14 classical chess world champion Vladimir Kramnik. Shortly before Rubljowski was in the FIDE World Cup in Khanty-Mansiysk seventh after a placement victory ( 1.5:0.5 ) against Mikhail Gurevich. With this result he qualified for the re-introduced by the FIDE Candidates Tournament from May 26 to June 13, 2007 in Elista. There he met in the first round on Ruslan Ponomariov, whom he defeated with 3.5 to 2.5. In the second round he lost to Alexander Grishchuk with 3,5:5,5 after Tie.

While he achieved in 2006 at the Chess Olympiad in Turin only 2 points from 6 games for the Russian team, he won shortly after a highly respected league in Foros with 7.5 points from 11 games. His Elo rating is 2693 (as of July 2012), so that it is ranked 53 of the FIDE world ranking list. Last among the top 20 in the world rankings, he was in July 2004.