Yuri Razuvaev

Yuri Sergeyevich Razuvayev (Russian Юрий Сергеевич Разуваев; scientific transliteration Yuri Sergeevič Razuvaev; born October 10, 1945 in Moscow, † March 21, 2012 ) was a Russian chess grandmaster and trainer, journalist and historian.

Career

Successes as a player

The title of International Master, he received in 1973, he gained the Grandmaster title in 1976. He won the tournaments of Dubna 1976 Polanica Zdroj 1979, Keszthely 1981, Dortmund 1985, Jurmala, 1987, Pula, 1988, Protvino, 1988, Reykjavik, 1990, Leningrad, 1992, Tiraspol 1994, Reggio Emilia in 1996 and San Sebastian 1996. During the second match USSR vs. the world 1984, he played four times on board 8 draw against Robert Hübner.

His last Elo rating was 2540, the last game he played -evaluated in 2001.

Chess training

Razuvayev was an assistant coach at two former world champions: From 1969 to 1974 at Mikhail Botvinnik from 1978 to 1982 with Vasily Smyslov. Together with Semyon Furman, he oversaw 1973-1978 Anatoly Karpov. From 1982 to 1994 he was Chairman of Committees coach of the Russian Chess Federation. Since 1998, he stood before the Committee of FIDE Trainer and dealt in this role with the worldwide organization of the training of chess coaches. From 2004, he held the title of FIDE Senior Trainer. Among his pupils were, among others, Alexandra Kosteniuk and Yevgeny Tomaschewski.

Razuvayev written with various co-authors of several chess books: 1980 a collection of games of Akiba Rubinstein, 1981, together with Gennady Nessis a work on the transition from the middlegame to the endgame, which in German translation under the title The Art of simplification, Volume 1 published in 1982, and 1984 together with Anatoly Mazukewitsch an English opening monograph, The Anti- Sicilian.