Vasil Spasov

Vasil Spassow (Bulgarian:. Васил Спасов, in engl transcription of the FIDE Vasil Spasov; born February 17, 1971 in Varna ) is a Bulgarian grandmaster in chess.

Spassow in 1989 in the Colombian Tunja world champion of the under-20s. Although he finished level on points with Poland Jacek Gdański the first place, but won the world title due to his victory in the direct encounter with Gdański, who in the meantime had been led with 1.5 points ahead of the tournament. Spassow was awarded after winning the world championship title of International Master.

Up to the year 2000 Spassow played since 1990 in the remaining eight chess Olympiads for the national team of Bulgaria, 2002 in Bled on first board. The best performance with the Bulgarian team was in 1994 at the Olympics in Moscow fifth place, at that time led the later FIDE world champion Veselin Topalov for the first time the Olympic team at. Spassow was five times Bulgarian champions Single: 1990 in Sofia, 1997 Shumen, 2000 Asenovgrad, 2003 in Sofia and Plovdiv in 2008.

His current Elo rating is 2589 (as of July 2008), which he ranked in sixth place of the rating list of his country.