Gregory Kaidanov

Gregory Kaidanov ( Grigori Zinovievich Kaidanow, Russian Григорий Зиновьевич Кайданов; born October 11, 1959 in Berdychiv, Ukraine) is an American chess player of Ukrainian descent.

Born in 1959 in the Ukrainian Berdychiv Kaidanov moved with his family the following year to the Russian city of Kaliningrad. The game of chess, he learned at the age of six from his father and achieved a few years later, in 1972, his first success by winning the U14 Championships of the Russian Federation. Kaidanov 1987 International Master, the following year he was awarded the grandmaster title.

In 1991 Kaidanov emigrated with his wife and then two of today three children in the United States, he lives in Lexington, Kentucky and works as a chess coach.

Achievements

To Kaidanovs first major tournament victories success counts in Moscow in 1987, in which he defeated, among others, the Indian Viswanathan Anand (see section diagram below), the youth world champion in the same year. There were other victories in 1989 in Vienna and 1990 at the Hastings Masters. After his emigration to the USA in 1992 she won the World Open Kaidanov and in the same year, the U.S. Open.

In 1993, he won with the team the U.S. World Cup team and belonged from 1996 to 2006 in Chess Olympiads of the U.S. national team. With it, he won the bronze medal in 1996 and 2006 as well as 1998, the Silver Medal. In 2004, he scored the second best performance on the fourth side Brett, what Kaidanov earned an individual silver medal.

2002 won the Aeroflot Open in Moscow Kaidanov against further 82 Grandmasters such as Alexander Grishchuk and Alexei Drejew. At the national championships of the United States, he was third in 2007, in April 2008, he finished the round-robin tournament of Gausdal Classics in Norway in the first place.

Kaidanovs current Elo rating is 2596 (as of April 2008), its highest ever Elo rating was 2646 in October 2002, he was then at the 43rd place in the world rankings. .

Kaidanov - Anand

The chart position was created in 1987 between Kaidanov and the later world chess champion Viswanathan Anand at the international tournament in Moscow. Kaidanov had set with the white pieces in the Panov Attack of the Caro- Kann Defence Anand's kingside under pressure and a few moves before his bishop sacrifice on h7 to tackle the black king on the h-file. Since Anand's king was now threatening to escape through e7, Kaidanov found a small combination with women victims who finished the game immediately: