Ernesto Inarkiev

Ernesto Inarkiev

Inarkiev at European Club Cup, 2008
Country Kyrgyzstan
Russia
Born (1985-12-09) 9 December 1985
Osh Region, Kirghiz SSR, Soviet Union
Title Grandmaster (2002)
FIDE rating 2668 (March 2016)
Peak rating 2707 (May 2012)

Ernesto Inarkiev (Russian: Эрнесто Инаркиев; born 9 December 1985) is a Russian chess Grandmaster, the first ever from Kalmykia.[1]

Inarkiev, who was named after Ernesto "Che" Guevara,[2] was born in the Osh Region, Kyrgyzstan[1] (then part of the Soviet Union) and played for his native country in two Chess Olympiads: in 1998, scoring 6.5 points from 9 games playing the second reserve board, and in 2000, playing on the fourth board with a 9/14 score.[3] In 1999, he won the Asian under-16 championship and the Kyrgyz championship.[1] He switched to Russian Chess Federation in 2000,[4] accepting Kirsan Ilyumzhinov's offer to move in Elista with his family.[1]

He took clear first place in the European under-16 championship in 2001.[5] In 2002, Inarkiev won the Russian junior (under-20) championship in Vladimir with a score of 9.5/11.[6]

In 2006 he won the Russian Championship Higher League, the qualifying tournament for the Superfinal of the 59th Russian Chess Championship. Inarkiev finished third in this latter event.[7] In 2010 he tied for 1st–4th with Konstantin Chernyshov, Lê Quang Liêm and Evgeny Bareev in the Moscow Open.[8] He placed third in the 14th Karpov Poikovsky Tournament with 5/9.[9] Inarkiev won the Baku Open in 2014.[10] In 2015, he won the Moscow Open scoring 8/9.[11]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Ernesto Inarkev". Tashir Chess. Retrieved 2 September 2015.
  2. ↑ New in Chess, 2006/7. Hail, young and unknown tribe!, p.66
  3. ↑ Men's Chess Olympiads: Ernesto Inarkiev. OlimpBase.
  4. ↑ Transfers in 2000 FIDE
  5. ↑ Jugend-Europameisterschaft U16 Burschen Chess-Results
  6. ↑ Crowther, Mark (18 March 2002). "TWIC 384: Russian Junior Championships". The Week in Chess. Retrieved 2 September 2015.
  7. ↑ "Evgeny Alekseev becomes the champion of Russia". RussiaChess.org. 2006-12-04. Retrieved 13 May 2010.
  8. ↑ "Chernyshov wins Moscow Open 2010". ChessBase. 2010-02-08. Retrieved 2 May 2010.
  9. ↑ "Poikovsky Final: Eljanov at the top". ChessBase. 6 September 2013. Retrieved 2 September 2015.
  10. ↑ Baku Open 2014 Chess-Results
  11. ↑ Ernesto Inarkiev convincing in Moscow Open 2015 Chessdom

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