Nikita Vitiugov

Nikita Kirilovitch Witjugow (Russian: Никита Кириллович Витюгов, FIDE name Nikita Vitiugov; born February 4, 1987 in Leningrad ) is a Russian chess player. Since 2007, he conferred the title of Grand Master.

Witjugow won the 2005 Russian Junior Championships U18 and was in the following two years each runner the age group U20. In July 2005 he defeated, a swept over internet cities competition between New York and St. Petersburg, the American grandmaster Alexander Stripunsky 2-0. In July 2006 he won the tournament Blue Sevan in Armenia with 6.5 points from 9 games. At the Junior World Championships in October 2006 in Yerevan, he came on the 2nd place. He participated in the Russian Championships 2006 ( No. 11 ), 2007 and 2008 (5th ) part. At the European Championships in 2007 in Dresden, he came up with 7.5 points from 11 games to 19th place in the Blitz Chess Festival Biel 2007, he finished second behind George Meier. In the World Chess Cup 2007 in Khanty-Mansiysk, he failed in the first round to Konstantin Zakayev. At the 2008 European Championships in Plovdiv he came with 7 points from 11 games at No. 44 At the European Club Cup in October 2008, he played on the second board for the Russian team FINEK Gazprombank and scored 5 points from 7 games. At the European Championships in March 2009 in Budva, he finished with 7.5 points from 11 games finished 21st in the Russian Team Championship 2009, he played on the third board for the team SPbChFed. For the 2009/10 season he was bound by the SV Wattenscheid for Chess League.

In 2010 he published a book on the French Defence ( The French Defence: A Complete Black Repertoire, ISBN 9548782766 ), the 2012 revised edition under the title French Defence Reloaded ( ISBN 9548782863 ) was published.