Mikhail Kobalia
Mikhail Robertovich Kobalija (Russian: Михаил Робертович Кобалия, spelling the World Chess Federation FIDE Mikhail Kobalia, May 3, 1978) is a Russian chess player.
Success as a teenager
As a teenager, he attended the Moscow Pioneer Chess School by Alexander Mazia.
In the Under-16 European Championship in 1994 in Băile Herculane he took second place at U18 World Championships in 1995 he became third in Guarapuava 1996 in Cala Galdana second. Once again, he was second in the U18 European Championship in 1996 Rimavská Sobota.
Success as an adult
On the fourth board of team Russia II, he took part in Elista at the Chess Olympiad 1998. There, drawn games he scored against Alexander Morozevich, Smbat Lputjan, Jeroen Piket and Ruslan Ponomariov in wins over Kenny Solomon and Joseph Gallagher, as well as a loss to K. Sasikiran. A year later, he played for the first Russian national team at the European Team Championship in Batumi on the third board with a positive result of 4.5 points from 7 games. In the Russian Individual Championship in 1999 in Moscow, he reached the semi-finals and was eliminated there against Konstantin Zakayev. In 2001 he won the Chigorin Memorial in Saint Petersburg. In the FIDE World Chess Championship 2001/2002 in Moscow, he defeated in the first round Konstantin Aseyev ( 3.0:1.0 ), but different in the second round against Michael Adams from 1.5:0.5. In the single European Championship 2003 in Silivri, he was a point behind the winner of eight. In the FIDE World Chess Championship 2004 in Tripoli, he won in the first round against Sergei Karjakin ( 1.5:0.5 ), but failed in the second round by Alexander Beliavsky ( 1,5-2,5 ). In the World Chess Cup 2005 in Khanty-Mansiysk, he retired in the first round against Zhang Zhong ( 1,5-2,5 ). In 2005 he won the International Chess Festival in Biel / Bienne. In the World Chess Cup 2009, again in Khanty-Mansiysk, he retired again in the first round, this time against Chanda Sandipan ( 0.5:1.5 ).
Chess club, he played in Germany for three games, of which he won in the 2006/07 season for the SG Porz in the Chess League. Otherwise, he played in the first Chinese league in the Bosnian Premijer League (Vice Cup 2002 in Neum with the ŠK Kiseljak ) and that of the United Arab Emirates as well as in the Spanish second division. In Iran, he is active for the Fajr Shams Chess Club, with whom he playing in 2008 took third place at the 1st Asian Club Cup in Al Ain on the first board. In the Arab League, he plays for the team of Dubai. The European Club Cup in 2002 and 2003 he played for the Russian club Tomsk -400, at Club Cup 2008 for TPS Saransk in the Russian team championship between Norilsk Nikel for Norilsk. He also already played for a Moscow city selection.
Mikhail Kobalija was temporarily Garry Kasparov seconds Dante team. 2012 Kobalija the title FIDE Senior Trainer was awarded.
In 1995 he became an International Master, since 1996 it bears the grandmaster title. His current Elo rating is 2637 (as of January 2010)., The highest ever Elo rating was 2656 in the second half of 2003, he was then at the 36th FIDE World Ranking.