Valery Chekhov

Valeri Aleksandrovich Chekhov (Russian Валерий Александрович Чехов; born November 27, 1955 in Moscow ) is a Russian grandmaster in chess.

To Chekhov's greatest tournament successes include winning the Junior World Championship 1975 in Tjentište, he was in the same year International Master of the World Chess Federation FIDE carries and since 1984 the title of Grand Master.

Chekhov was active for many years for the chess club SV Empor Berlin in the German team chess, GDR times for Empor HO Berlin, the East German team champion in 1990, and after the turn of the SV Empor Berlin eV in the Chess League, in which he in the season 1992/93, among others, Vladimir Kramnik, who later became world chess champion, played in a team.

Valery Chekhov was a pupil of the famous chess trainer Mark Dworezki and published in 1994 a book on opening theory of the Sicilian Defense ( Sicilian Sveshnikov Variation - played correctly Beyer, Hollfeld 1994, ISBN 3-89168-044-9. ).

Chekhov's Elo rating is 2457 (as of June 2013), but he has played no Elo -evaluated lot more since 5 Estrin Memorial in Moscow in March 2005. His highest Elo rating was 2550 in January 1992.