Alexey Vyzmanavin
Alexei Borisovich Wyschmanawin (Cyrillic: Алексей Борисович Выжманавин; * January 1, 1960 in Moscow, † January 6, 2000 ) was a Russian chess master.
At the beginning of his career the Moscow Wyschmanawin regularly attended the local annual city championship. In 1981 he placed sixth, ahead of strong grandmasters such as David Bronstein, Yuri Razuvayev, Artur Yusupov, Alexei Suetin, Rafael Vaganian and Yevgeny Vasyukov. In the years 1984 and 1986 Wyschmanawin won the Moscow championship then.
After he became Grand Master in 1989, he won at the 57th championship of the USSR in 1990 in Leningrad fourth place, level on points after Sonneborn- Berger-Tie- behind tournament winner Alexander Beliavsky, Leonid Judassin and Evgeny Bareev. The following year, at the 58th Championship held in Moscow he placed as a shared fifth to ninth. This is Wyschmanawin qualified for the national team and was able to attend the 1992 Chess Olympiad in Manila, where he = at second reserve board 6 3 -0 achieved and contributed to the victory of the Russian Olympic team.
Among his international tournament successes include victories in 1986 and 1987 Naleczów in Tashkent. In the tournament of Moscow 1988, he was tied for first with Razuvayev, Gregory Kaidanov and Lew Psachis. 1989 in Sochi, he won against Joël Lautier and Alexander Khalifman. It was followed by his winning 1990/1991 at the Rilton Cup in Stockholm and in 1991 another success in Gelsenkirchen Vasily Smylow. In 1993 Wyschmanawin the chess world with his surprise second place behind Judassin the tournament of León, causing the favored Anatoly Karpov was referred to the split with Vesselin Topalov and Péter Lékó third place.
In the fast and blitz chess Wyschmanawin had a reputation as a " speed demon ". In rapid chess events of the Professional Chess Association ( PCA) in the 1990s, he was often able to overcome his better-known opponents.
In the Moscow PCA event in Moscow in 1994 he reached the semi-finals, in which he almost lost against Vladimir Kramnik, after he had already turned Alexei Shirov and Viktor Korchnoi. On the occasion of such a PCA Quick Tournament 1994 in New York compared commentator Maurice Ashley Wyschmanwins style with a predator: "He is a dangerous player, watching like a cat ready springing ".
His highest Elo rating of 2620, he reached in January 1993.
Wyschmanawin took last time in 1997 in international chess tournaments, and withdrew into the final years of chess. It died in early 2000 of a heart attack. He was living alone, however, was assumed on 6 January 2000, the Russian New Year with friends. His dead body was not discovered until six days later. After Wyschmanawins death of former FIDE world champion Alexander Khalifman mentioned him as an example of a beginning with Louis Paulsen "second series " of Grand Masters whose " huge creative contribution to the development of chess significantly underestimated " will.