Artur Yusupov
Artur Yusupov ( previously Russian: Артур Маякович Юсупов / Artur Yusupov Majakowitsch, scientific transliteration: Artur Yusupov Majakovič; born February 13, 1960 in Moscow ) is a German chess player of Russian origin.
Tournament Players
Artur Yusupov, a student of the elite trainer Mark Dworezki, went through the Soviet Chess School and 1977 World Junior Champion U20. For its first participation at the national championship of the Soviet Union in 1979 in Minsk, he finished a sensational second place. He is a Grandmaster since 1980.
He took part in several times qualifying competitions for the World Chess Championship and reached the semi-finals here three times, where he failed to Andrei Sokolov, 1989 Anatoly Karpov and 1992 to Jan Timman 1986. He won, among other races against Jan Timman (1985) and Vasyl Ivanchuk (1991). Yusupov, Brussels 1991, a now famous combination - Here he succeeded in the rapid game Ivanchuk.
After he was critically injured in May 1990 when a robbery in Moscow, he moved to Germany and later received the German citizenship. Between 1994 and 2000 he played in four chess Olympiads for the German national team. After the World Chess Federation FIDE forbade the consumption of caffeine as illicit doping and appropriate tests announced in competitions, he announced his withdrawal from the national team. After relaxation of these rules he agreed to return to play at the Chess Olympiad in Turin in 2006.
He plays in the chess Bundesliga for the chess society Solingen. In January 2005 he was in Basel European champion in chess, in February he won in old churches, the German Individual Championship. In the Dutch first league he played in the 2006/07 season for Homburg Apeldoorn, in the Swiss National League A, he plays for the SG Winterthur on top board.
His best reached Elo rating was 2680 in July 1995; so that he was ranked 11 in the world rankings.
Coach
Yusupov has worked as a chess trainer and worked with, among others, with Viswanathan Anand. He is regarded as one of the world's top expert on the Russian defense. Yusupov in 2005 received the title of FIDE Senior Trainer.
Under the title of Tiger Leaping on DWZ 1500/1800/2100 he published from 2007 self-published a multi-volume textbook, based on its meetings held via distance learning courses for club players.
Private
Since 1991, Yusupov is married to Nadia (* 1970), which carries the title of FIDE Master (WFM ). They have a daughter Ekaterina (* 1991) and a son Alexander (* 1993). His daughter won in September 2006 in Bad Wörishofen the Bavarian Championships of the ladies. In addition, it is a multiple German Youth Champion. Son Alexander is a multiple Bavarian youth champion and world youth championship participants. Nadja, Ekaterina and Alexander play with SK Krumbach.
Works
- Artur Yusupov, Mark Dworezki: The independent way to professional chess player: Secrets and Tips from a new chess school, Hollfeld, Beyer, 1992 ( 2nd edition ) ISBN 3-89168-040-6
- Artur Yusupov, Mark Dworezki: Effective Opening training: Secrets and Tips from a new chess school, Hollfeld, Beyer, 1994 ISBN 3-88805-279-3
- Artur Yusupov, Mark Dworezki: Positional Chess: How to train your position sense, Zurich, Olms, 1996 ISBN 3-283-00322- X
- Artur Yusupov, Mark Dworezki: Effective Final Training: Secrets and Tips from a new chess school, Hollfeld, Beyer, 1996 ISBN 3-88805-114-2
- Artur Yusupov: The Russian defense. Successful opening theory for practice, Hombrechtikon / Zurich, Olms, 1998, ISBN 3-283-00273-8
- Artur Yusupov: chess lessons. Self-published, 2006. ISBN 3-933365-10-4 (summary of 10 previously published separately educational booklets for the chess lessons, English edition under the title Chess lessons 2004, ISBN 3-935748-07-8 )
- Artur Yusupov, Mark Dworezki: Attack and Defense: Lessons and materials from Dworetski - Yusupov Chess School, Zurich, Olms, 1999 ISBN 3-283-00356-4
- Artur Yusupov, Harald Fietz and Hartmut Metz: Frankfurt Chess Classic 2000 - Premiere of the top ten, Bad Soden, FCC Edition, 2000, ISBN 3-931192-18-0, ISBN 3-931192-17-2!