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Farrukh Amonatov, the one and only GM of Tajikistan, is the surprise winner of the Eurasian Blitz Chess Cup.
http://www.thechessmind.net/blog/201...chess-cup.html
http://www.thechessmind.net/blog/201...chess-cup.html
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Re: Farrukh Amonatov
I use to make an effort to know of all the different grandmasters in the world (up to about the year 2000). I still try but its impossible. I dont know GM Amonatov, dont know what he looks like, and wouldnt be sure if I have seen any of his games. -
Re: Farrukh Amonatov
Chessgames.com has 314 of his games, Hans, 10 of which they deem "Notable" and 2 of which have been their 'game of the day'.Originally posted by Hans Jung View Post
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1428173
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Re: Farrukh Amonatov
It would be lovely to know them all. Commit yourself to studying 1 new Grandmaster a week and you would not likely get to them all. So study 1 new GM a day, That'll take over 4 years to see the present 1,522 FIDE GMs. Maybe start from the highest rated, then Amonatov will be 201st. Or start alphabetically and he's 41st.Originally posted by Hans Jung View PostComment
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Re: Farrukh Amonatov
Farrukh Amonatov
June 22, 2016
For those who want to be able to recognize Farrukh on sight, there is a good black and white photo by David Llada at:
https://www.chess.com/news/eurasian-...big-names-5289
Peter Doggers says in that report:
“It was a tournament that came out of nowhere, and it ended with a huge surprise. In full, the tournament was titled "Eurasian Blitz Chess Cup of the President of Kazakhstan". This two-day blitz tournament saw a large number of very strong grandmasters. Why? Well, for starters the event had an impressive $100,000 prize fund and a $30,000 first prize.
A total of 105 players from 28 federations played, including 57 GMs and 12 IMs. The top ten seeds were Ian Nepomniachtchi (RUS, 2846), Le Quang Liem (VIE, 2805), Sergey Karjakin (RUS, 2801), Rauf Mamedov (AZE, 2796), Boris Gelfand (ISR, 2792), Wang Hao (CHN, 2784), Alexander Grischuk (RUS, 2766), Dmitry Andreikin (RUS, 2759), Peter Svidler (RUS, 2754), and Rustam Kasimdzhanov (UZB, 2736). The field also included Gawain Jones (ENG, 2734), Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (AZE,2748), Hou Yifan (CHN, 2704), Ruslan Ponomariov (UKR, 2695), Paco Vallejo (ESP, 2686) and Baadur Jobava (GEO, 2635).
The setup was as follows: Swiss pairings with 11 double-rounds (two games against the same opponent per round). The first 14 games were played on Saturday; rounds 15 through 22 were played on Sunday. The time control was three minutes with a two second increment. The venue wasn't bad at all: the Ritz Carlton hotel in Almaty.
The tournament ended in a huge surprise, but knowledgable insiders weren't overly astonished. The winner, GM Farrukh Amonatov, Tajikistan's only grandmaster, has a classical rating (2614) that is almost two hundred points higher than the number two in the country, IM Muhammad Khusenkhojaev. However, several top GMs in Leuven confirmed to Chess.com that Amonatov is a well-known blitz expert so they weren't that surprised.
Our photographer for this report, David Llada, wrote: “Since he lives in Moscow, Alexander Morozevich has played countless training blitz games with him as sparring.”
Amonatov, 24th seeded, finished on 16.0/22; he had the same number of points as Nepomniachtchi but a better tiebreak.”Comment
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Re: Farrukh Amonatov
Token has expired? Hmm. I remember A. as a highly tactical 18-year-old with a lot more hair from the 1996 Olympiad in Yerevan. His name may even have been mentioned in the extensive article in Inside Chess where I concentrated on the then 14-year-old Levon Aronian and 15-year-old Karen Asrian of the Armenia "B" team. Here is a game where those paths crossed: http://www.olimpbase.org/pgn4web/ana...s/FAM26TJ5.PGNComment
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Re: Farrukh Amonatov
Alina L'Ami has an excellent piece with plenty of great pictures of the event at ChessBase. (:
http://en.chessbase.com/post/farrukh...litz-chess-cupComment
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