Alexander Baburin
Alexander Baburin (Russian Александр Евгеньевич Бабурин; born February 19, 1967 in Gorky ) is an Irish chess player of Russian origin.
Life
As a child he learned to play chess from his father. He was trained, among others, of the Grand Masters Oleg Chernikov and Alexander Panchenko. By 1993, Alexander Baburin lived in Nizhny Novgorod, which was known under the name of Gorky until 1990. There he studied for a year from 1984 Radiation Physics at the University of Gorky. In 1985 he was drafted into the Army and played after his military service as a professional chess player for the Army Sports Club. He also studied engineering science and linguistics, but completed none of his three trials. With his wife and two children, he lives since September 1993 in Dublin, where he works as a chess teacher, benefits and booksellers. His 1997 published book Winning Pawn Structures (translated Profitable pawn structures ) got good reviews. Since 2000 he is responsible for the daily, now weekly newsletter Chess Today.
Achievements
Individual successes
In December 1990 he won the 4th Dubinin Memorial in Nizhny Novgorod, 1992, the Liechtenstein Open in Schellenberg before Lutz Espig and Edhi Handoko and the Swiss Open Championships in Leukerbad. In 1993 he won the Open in Kilkenny with 5.5 points from 6 games, 1995, he won the Chess Festival of Bunratty, 1997, the Universe Open in San Francisco. With 8 points from 9 games he won, also in 1997, the Isle of Man Open, scoring an Elo performance of 2827th In the Commonwealth Championships in 1999 in the Indian Bikaner, he remained undefeated with 8.5 out of 10, but plays out competition, as the Republic of Ireland is not a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. When policies Cup 1999 in Copenhagen, he shared the victory with Tiger Hillarp Persson. In May 2007, he was the Liechtenstein Open in its 25th edition, which took place this time in Triesen, winning for the second time. (Before Eduardas Rozentalis and Iván Faragó ) In his only previous (as of 2009) participation in a single Irish championship he won this in 2008 in Dublin.
Chess team
With the Irish national team, he took between 1996 and 2008 at six Chess Olympiads with a total score of 36.5 points out of 67 games ( 18, = 37, -12 ), and the European Team Championship in 2005.
In Hungary he played in 1991 for BEAC Budapest, in Austria in the 2002/03 season for the SV Tschaturanga. In the German Chess Bundesliga he played in the 1997/98 season for the chess friends Neukölln, in the 1999/2000 season for the Delmenhorster chess club and in the season 2003/ 04 for the Bremen SG. With the London club Wood Green, in which he plays since 1998, he won the 2002 / 03, 2004 / 05, 2005/ 06, 2008/ 09, 2009/10 and 2011/ 12, the 4NCL. Also in French leagues he played already and was with CEMC Monaco in the 2001/ 02 season, the French team champion. With the Irish Kilkenny Chess Club he took part in the European Club Cup in 2006 and 2007.
Title and rating
The Soviet master came in the 1987. 1990 he received the title of International Master in 1996 the Grand Master title. The first standard for this purpose he scored on his first standard tournament in December 1991 in Budapest ( category 9), however, the next standard left four years away: in 1995, he scored another GM norm, this time in Groningen. The final standard he achieved in 1996 at the 18th policies Cup in Copenhagen.
His current Elo rating is 2503 (as of March 2014), so that he leads the Irish Elo rankings. His previous highest Elo rating was 2600 in 1998.
Publications
- Trends in the Queens Gambit Accepted, Volume 2 Trends Publications, London, 1994, ISBN 1-859-32075-9.
- Trends in the Kings Indian Four Pawns Attack -, Volume 2 Tournament Chess, London 1997, ISBN 1-859-32083- X.
- Mikhail Botvinnik and the Soviet School of Chess. Everyman Chess, London 1997, ISBN 1-857-44133-8.
- Winning Pawn Structures. International Chess Enterprises, Seattle 1997, ISBN 1-879-47970-2.