Emil Sutovsky
Emil Sutovsky ( born September 19, 1977 in Baku ) is an Israeli chess master.
Sutovsky, who learned chess as a 4- year-old who emigrated to Israel in 1991 and was previously a promising talent in the USSR, where he participated in the National Youth Championships. In 1996 he was in Medellín Youth World Champion and was awarded the Grandmaster title by FIDE. In 1997, he won tournaments in Hoogeveen ( Judit Polgár ago, Loek van Wely and Vasily Smyslov ) and Buenos Aires, in 1998 on the Isle of Man, 1999 in Essen, in 1999/2000 in Hastings.
He celebrated his biggest success in 2001 when he became European Champion in Ohrid, after an engraving Ruslan Ponomariov fight against. 2003 Sutovsky won the first aligned (on the server of ChessBase ) Internet Championship. At the turn of 2003/ 04 he won with Luke McShane and Miguel Illescas Cordoba, in Pamplona. In 2005 he won the Open of Gibraltar (divided), and the Aeroflot Open in Moscow and became the elite tournament after Dortmund invited in the same year, in which he - though he did not come in the price ranks - a brilliant victory against the reigning world champion Vladimir Kramnik managed.
He participated in two FIDE world championships by knockout system: 2000 in New Delhi, he left in the first round, 2001 in Moscow, he came in the third round, where he defeated Vasyl Ivanchuk. Israel, he represented so far in six Chess Olympiads. Sutovsky is president of the Association of Chess Professionals. In addition, he is a trained baritone singer, and he publicly occasionally.
Game fragment
One of his best games played Sutovsky 2005 Tournament of Gibraltar, in which he was shared tournament winner. The below match against the English grandmaster Daniel Gormally, in Sutovsky with the black pieces succeeded in a brilliant attack victory and for which he was awarded the brilliancy prize of the tournament, called the future world chess champion Viswanathan Anand, the best game he had ever seen.
Black has to already put a tower into the business to develop his attack. In this position, Sutovsky takes to win the leading combination.
This is the white tower b1 under attack by the lady. White makes the only sensible train, but also leads to defeat.
The following is an intermediate check.
Black now takes the lady on f5 not again, which would have led to a loss position, but draws:
And it follows the crowning of the combination:
White gave up. He can not beat the runner d4 with the lady, as would checkmate on this 37 .. Sf4 - h3, on the other hand, now threatens either Sf4 - h3 and Sf4 - e2 matt. But on 37.h2 - h4 (the only train ) follows 37 .. Sf4 - e2 38.Kg1 h2 Ld4xf2 together with g2 - G1d and decisive black material advantage.