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The Maryland Chess Association has organized a tournament in memory of GM Yuri Razuvaev August 8-11, 2013 in Rockville, Maryland. GM Razuvaev was the coach of Alexandra Kosteniuk when she won the Woman's World Championship in 2008. In honor of this, the tournament format matches some of the top women chess players against some older male players who were friends with GM Razuvaev.
GM Adrian Mikhalchishin
GM Alexandra Kosteniuk
GM Boris Gulko
IM Anna Zatonskih
GM Vladimir Tukmakov
IM Irina Krush
GM Lev Alburt
IM Elena Sedina
This tournament is being held in parallel with the 2nd Annual Washington International and live broadcasts of the games are at
http://www.mdchess.com
The games are at 2pm on Aug 8-10 and at 11am on Aug 11.
It is good to see Tukmakov playing again. Four grandmasters against one GM and three IMs – I fear for the beauties as they are calling them.
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The FIDE Tribute
GM Yuri Razuvaev (10.10.1945-21.03.2012)
Our legendary Honorary Chairman died... Sad news came from Moscow… For the last four years he continued a hard fight against the terrible illness, but finally he resigned... He is survived by his wife Natasha and his son Alexander, a famous economist.
Yuri was an extra-ordinary player, but his achievements as a trainer are much higher. He trained Anatoly Karpov and Alexandra Kosteniuk, the ex-World Champions. He trained the Soviet National Team in European Championships of 1977 and 1980 and in the 1980 Olympiad, where the team won the gold medals. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union he trained the Russian team, the winner of the Olympiad in Manila 1992.
He established the FIDE Trainers’ Commission (TRG) in 2000 during the Istanbul Olympiad and developed it to well-established professional organization, where the main idea is to educate trainers and to promote chess on a higher level. All his ideas about trainers’ titles and regional Academies were implemented with great success. He started the trainers’ seminars in Berlin and Singapore Trainers’ Academies. He was a Chairman of TRG by 2009, when he became an Honorary Chairman.
As a player he played a few times in the Soviet Championships and won a few strong international tournaments such as London 1983, Polanica Zdroj 1979, Dortmund 1983 and Yurmala 1987. But much more successes he achieved as a team player - in most cases he was the soul of the teams in which he played. He was a member of the winning teams of the European Cup in 1976 and 1979, a member of the Burevestnik Team, a member of the World Students’ Championship in 1971 and a member of the Soviet Spartakiad in 1983. He lived in Moscow and played for the Russian Federation team as well. Finally, he was a member of Soviet National team, which played against the World in 1984, in London. There he scored a 2-2 draw against IGM Robert Huebner.
[At the second USSR vs Rest of the World match in 1984, he substituted for Tigran Petrosian, who was absent because of illness. Razuvaev limited his opponent, the much higher rated Robert Hübner, to four straight draws.]
Razuvaev wrote a lot of articles for world top chess magazines, but his best work was a book on Akiva Rubinstein’s selected games, which became a classic. Another book the ‘Transposition into the Endgame’ became a classic as well for players and trainers.
GM Adrian Mikhalchishin
GM Alexandra Kosteniuk
GM Boris Gulko
IM Anna Zatonskih
GM Vladimir Tukmakov
IM Irina Krush
GM Lev Alburt
IM Elena Sedina
This tournament is being held in parallel with the 2nd Annual Washington International and live broadcasts of the games are at
http://www.mdchess.com
The games are at 2pm on Aug 8-10 and at 11am on Aug 11.
It is good to see Tukmakov playing again. Four grandmasters against one GM and three IMs – I fear for the beauties as they are calling them.
++++++++
The FIDE Tribute
GM Yuri Razuvaev (10.10.1945-21.03.2012)
Our legendary Honorary Chairman died... Sad news came from Moscow… For the last four years he continued a hard fight against the terrible illness, but finally he resigned... He is survived by his wife Natasha and his son Alexander, a famous economist.
Yuri was an extra-ordinary player, but his achievements as a trainer are much higher. He trained Anatoly Karpov and Alexandra Kosteniuk, the ex-World Champions. He trained the Soviet National Team in European Championships of 1977 and 1980 and in the 1980 Olympiad, where the team won the gold medals. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union he trained the Russian team, the winner of the Olympiad in Manila 1992.
He established the FIDE Trainers’ Commission (TRG) in 2000 during the Istanbul Olympiad and developed it to well-established professional organization, where the main idea is to educate trainers and to promote chess on a higher level. All his ideas about trainers’ titles and regional Academies were implemented with great success. He started the trainers’ seminars in Berlin and Singapore Trainers’ Academies. He was a Chairman of TRG by 2009, when he became an Honorary Chairman.
As a player he played a few times in the Soviet Championships and won a few strong international tournaments such as London 1983, Polanica Zdroj 1979, Dortmund 1983 and Yurmala 1987. But much more successes he achieved as a team player - in most cases he was the soul of the teams in which he played. He was a member of the winning teams of the European Cup in 1976 and 1979, a member of the Burevestnik Team, a member of the World Students’ Championship in 1971 and a member of the Soviet Spartakiad in 1983. He lived in Moscow and played for the Russian Federation team as well. Finally, he was a member of Soviet National team, which played against the World in 1984, in London. There he scored a 2-2 draw against IGM Robert Huebner.
[At the second USSR vs Rest of the World match in 1984, he substituted for Tigran Petrosian, who was absent because of illness. Razuvaev limited his opponent, the much higher rated Robert Hübner, to four straight draws.]
Razuvaev wrote a lot of articles for world top chess magazines, but his best work was a book on Akiva Rubinstein’s selected games, which became a classic. Another book the ‘Transposition into the Endgame’ became a classic as well for players and trainers.
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