Yasser Seirawan
Yasser Seirawan ( born March 24, 1960 in Damascus / Syria) is an American chess master of Syrian origin; his father was Syrian, his mother English.
Life
1967 emigrated Seirawans family to the United States, first to Virginia Beach in 1972 to Seattle. The four-time champion of the USA, who learned to play chess at age 12, in 1979 in Skien U20 Junior World Champion and in 1980 he received the Grandmaster title. It developed in the 1980s, one of the strongest players in the world. He was Sekundant Viktor Kortschnois at the world championship match in 1981 against Anatoly Karpov.
Seirawan won in the 1980s, a variety of tournaments, including twice (1983 and 1987 ), the major open tournament of Lugano and the New York Open ( 1985 and 1987 ). In 1990 he won in Haninge in front of the former world champion Anatoly Karpov. On the Chess Olympiad in Dubai in 1986, he defeated the then reigning world champion Garry Kasparov.
Twice he managed to qualify for the Candidates Tournament: In 1985 he was Interzonal Biel Second, 1987 Interzonal of Subotica also. When Candidates Tournament of Montpellier in 1985 Seirawan was tenth in the candidate struggles 1988 he already retired in the second round against Jonathan Speelman ( with 1-4). Seirawan defeated in 1992 in São Paulo the surprisingly active for chess returned Brazilian Henrique da Costa Mecking with 3,5:2,5 ( 1, -0 = 5). End of the 1980s, he brought out a chess newspaper, Inside Chess magazine, but the end of the 1990s abandoned its appearance again. In addition, Seirawan published a series of chess books. He is also a popular commentator for chess tournaments. In 2004 he received the title of FIDE Senior Trainer.
Seirawan was the initiator of the agreement of Prague in 2002, a now failed attempt to unite the two rival world champion title. In September 2003, Seirawan said although his retirement from chess, but visited the Dortmund Chess 2004 days and continued to participate regularly at the Dutch team championship, most recently in 2006, in part. Seirawan is with the Dutch chess player Yvette Nagel ( WFM), the daughter of former Dutch politician Jan Nagel, married and lives in Amsterdam.
Seirawans current Elo rating is 2620, so that he is on the seventh rank of the Elo rating list of the United States, ranked 178 in the world rankings (as of November 2013). His previous highest Elo rating was 2658 in November 2012. Recently, he was among the top 40 in the world in 2001.
Together with Bruce Harper Yasser Seirawan has its own variant of chess Seirawan Chess released in 2007.
Works (selection)
- Jeremy Silman: Play winning chess. An introduction to the moves, strategies, and philosophy of chess from the USA 's ♯ 1-ranked chess player, Redmond Wash, Tempus 1990 ISBN 155615271X
- With Jon Tisdall: Five crowns. Kasparov - Karpov 1990. International Chess Enterprises, Seattle 1991. ISBN 1-87947-902-8
- With George Stefanović: No Regrets. Fischer- Spassky 1992 International Chess Enterprises, ISBN 1-879479-09-5 Seattle 1992
- With Nikolay Minev: Take my Rooks. International Chess Enterprises, Seattle 1992. ISBN 1-87947-901- X
- Winning Chess Brilliancies, Everyman Publishers, 2003 ISBN 1-85744-347-0
- My best games (DVD), ChessBase, Hamburg, 2010. ISBN 978-3-86681-158-4
- Chess duels. My games with the world champions. Gloucester Publishers, London, 2010. ISBN 978-1-85744-587-9