Boris Grachev

Boris Grachev
Full name Boris Pavlovich Grachev
Country  Russia
Born (1986-03-27) 27 March 1986
Moscow
Title Grandmaster
FIDE rating 2639 (May 2016)
Peak rating 2705 (March 2012)

Boris Pavlovich Grachev (Russian: Борис Павлович Грачёв; born 27 March 1986 in Moscow)[1] is a Russian chess Grandmaster.

Chess career

In 1995, Grachev won the Under-10 World Championship in São Lourenço.

He won the Russian Junior (Under-20) Championship in 2006.[2] In the same year he tied for first with Alexander Lastin at the Moscow Open, finishing second on tiebreak.[3]

In March 2009, he finished equal first (eight on tiebreak) at the European Individual Chess Championship with a score of 8/11 points, therefore qualifying for the Chess World Cup 2009,[4] where he was knocked out in the first round by Mateusz Bartel. In June of that year Grachev won the first Lublin Grandmaster Tournament[5] and in the following month the Masters open tournament of the Biel Chess Festival.[6]

In 2010, he tied for 3rd–6th with Alexander Motylev, Zhou Jianchao and Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son in the Aeroflot Open.[7]

Grachev won the Young GM round-robin tournament of the 2011 Moscow Open.[8] He competed in the Chess World Cup 2011: after defeating compatriot Evgeny Romanov in the first round, he was eliminated in the second one by Lê Quang Liêm.[9]

In December 2011, he shared the first place with Igor Kurnosov at the 35th Zurich Christmas Open,[10] and in January 2012, Grachev won the Basel Chess Festival.[11] Thanks to this latter two achievements he crossed the 2700 Elo rating mark in the March 2012 FIDE rating list.

In January 2013, Grachev won again in Basel with 5.5/7, edging out on tiebreak Levente Vajda, Robin van Kampen and Andrei Istratescu.[12]

In 2014, he placed equal fourth (fifth on countback) in the Russian Championship Higher League and thus qualified for the Superfinal of the Russian Chess Championship,[13] where he scored 4/9.[14] In the same year he tied for first with Sergey Grigoriants, placing second on tiebreak, in a Chess960 rapid tournament in Moscow.[15]

In 2015, he scored 7.5/11 in the European Individual Championship and this result earned him the qualification for the Chess World Cup 2015.[16] He lost in the first round to Alexander Motylev after the blitz tiebreakers.

Notable games

References

  1. ↑ FIDE: GM title application
  2. ↑ Crowther, Mark (2006-03-13). "Russian Under-20 Championships". The Week in Chess 592. Retrieved 2015-08-18.
  3. ↑ Crowther, Mark (2006-02-13). "TWIC 588: Moscow Open". The Week in Chess. Retrieved 2 October 2015.
  4. ↑ "10th European Individual Chess Championship". Chess-Results. Retrieved 2015-08-18.
  5. ↑ "Boris Grachev Wins at the 1st Lublin International Chess Tournament". Chessdom. 2009-06-07. Retrieved 18 May 2010.
  6. ↑ Crowther, Mark (2009-08-03). "Biel Chess Festival". The Week in Chess 769. Retrieved 2015-08-18.
  7. ↑ "Aeroflot Open – Le Quang Liem victorious". ChessBase. 2010-02-18. Retrieved 18 May 2010.
  8. ↑ "Moscow Open: Untitled Belous tops them all". ChessBase. 2011-02-09. Retrieved 4 October 2015.
  9. ↑ Crowther, Mark (2011-09-21). "FIDE World Cup Khanty-Mansiysk 2011". The Week in Chess. Retrieved 13 December 2013.
  10. ↑ "Zurich Christmas Open". Chessdom. 2012-01-02. Retrieved 2015-08-18.
  11. ↑ Regez, Markus (2012-01-09). "GM Boris Grachev gewinnt Hilton Open Basel" (in German). schachtrainer.ch. Retrieved 2015-08-18.
  12. ↑ "Chess Festival in Basel – Grachev wins on tiebreak". ChessBase. 2013-01-06. Retrieved 2015-08-18.
  13. ↑ Silver, Albert (2014-06-14). "Russian Higher League: Lysyj and Girya win". ChessBase. Retrieved 2015-08-18.
  14. ↑ Crowther, Mark (2014-12-01). "Russian Championship Superfinal 2014". The Week in Chess. Retrieved 2015-08-18.
  15. ↑ Doggers, Peter (2014-02-23). "Moscow Chess960 (Fischerrandom) Event Won by Grigoriants on Tiebreak". Chess.com. Retrieved 4 October 2015.
  16. ↑ "European Individual Chess Championship 2015". Chess-Results. Retrieved 2015-08-18.

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