Sergey Dolmatov

Sergei Dolmatow (Russian: Сергей Викторович Долматов, scientific transliteration Sergei Viktorovič Dolmatov; born February 20, 1959 in Kisseljowsk, Kemerovo Oblast ) is a Russian chess master.

Dolmatow heard Artur Yusupov in addition to the successful students of the Russian Star coach Mark Dworezki. Under Dworezkis care Dolmatow was twice (1978 and 1979 ) Youth Vice European champion and 1978 World Junior Champion in Graz. For this achievement he was awarded by the FIDE International Master title. In the 1980s, he celebrated a series of brilliant victories. He won tournaments in Amsterdam in 1979, Bucharest 1981, Frunze 1983, Barcelona 1983, Tallinn, 1985, Sochi 1988, Klaipėda 1988 ( USSR First League ), Moscow 1989, Hastings 1989 /1990. In the strong tournament in Tashkent in 1980 he was sent to Alexander Beliavsky Second, as the strong tournament in Minsk in 1982 second behind Vitaly Zeschkowski. He qualified in this period to five USSR Championships. 1984 FIDE awarded him the grandmaster title. Garry Kasparov chose 1987 Dolmatow to his second in the world championship match against Anatoly Karpov in Seville.

In 1990 Dolmatow Interzonal in Manila ( shared 5th place) the jump to the Candidates Tournament. In the first competition of candidates Dolmatow met with his longtime friend and classmate Artur Yusupov Dworezki. The 1991 discharged in Wijk aan Zee competition ended after regular game 4:4 ( 1, -1, = 6), so that a rapid chess stinging had to decide: Yusupov stood up to and Dolmatow with 2.5:1.5 difference from. In 1992 he took part in Russia for the Chess Olympiad in Manila and won with his home country the gold medal. From 1991 to 1993 he played for Dortmund in the Bundesliga chess. 1997 won Dolmatow together with Pawel Tregubow and Sergei Rublevsky in Krasnodar. In 1999 he was second in Calcutta and won the 2000 Open Anibal in Linares. In recent years Dolmatow limited its tournaments drastically. He regularly plays only team tournaments and the Aeroflot Open in Moscow, in which he lost a game in 2004 against the Norwegian " Wunderkind" Magnus Carlsen in just 19 moves. His Elo rating is 2557 (as of October 2008).