Vadim Zvjaginsev

Vadim Viktorovich Zvyagintsev (Russian Вадим Викторович Звягинцев, scientific transliteration Vadim Zvyagintsev, English spelling, which is used by the FIDE Vadim Zvjaginsev; born October 18, 1976 in Moscow ) is a Russian chess champion of the world elite.

Zvyagintsev came as a 13 - year-old in the Mark Dworezki Chess School, where he could develop his enormous talent soon. He was European champion of young people up to 16 years in Rimavská Sobota in 1992, the same year he shared with Pyotr Svidler won first place at the Russian Championship U18. A year later, he won tournaments in Stockerau and Loos village, also he shared in 1994 in Reykjavík, Altensteig ( with Jonathan Speelman ) and Saint Petersburg in 1994, respectively the first place. In the same year he finished second after Alexander Morozevich in Pamplona. 1995 beyond his Elo rating due to its successes, the 2600 - limit mark. In the following years he won in 1996 and Calcutta Barbera 1997 ( together with Jaan Ehlvest ), and he also won in the same year in Portorož. In 1997 he was in Tilburg Fourth ( inter alia Vladimir Kramnik, Michael Adams, Peter Svidler and Veselin Topalov ). In 1999 he won in Essen and was second in Portoroz. His biggest success to date, he also scored in Essen in 2002 when he won the tournament, inter alia Péter Lékó, Rustam Kasimjanov and Viktor Korchnoi 7.5 from 9. In 2005 he was fourth at the Russian Championship by Pyotr Svidler, inter alia, it is ahead of Kramnik and Wladimr. In 2006, he shared second place in Poikowski by Alexei Shirov.

Zvyagintsev played in 1994, 1998 and 2002 at the Chess Olympiad, while in 1994 the Russian B- team. In 1998 he won with his team the gold medal, 2002, the silver medal.

From July to December 2002 he was among the top 25 in the world.

Theory contribution

Zvyagintsev won games against the FIDE World Champion Alexander Khalifman (2005) and Ruslan Ponomariov (2006) with a hitherto not used in the grandmaster practice sequence of moves in the Sicilian Defence: 1.e2 -e4 c7 - c5 2.Sb1 -a3. This version has since been found in the great chess and has the best views to be baptized as Zvyagintsev variant.