Mikhail Ulibin

Mikhail Ulibin
Mikhail Ulibin, Rilton Cup 2009
Country	Russia
Born	31 May 1971
Title	Grandmaster (1991)
FIDE rating	2519 (February 2016)
Peak rating	2589 (July 2002)

Mikhail Ulibin (Russian: Михаил Улыбин; born 31 May 1971) is a Russian chess grandmaster (1991) and silver medalist in the World Junior Chess Championship of 1991.^[1] He played for the bronze medal-winning second Russian team in the 1994 Chess Olympiad.^[2]

He played in the Soviet Union Junior Chess Championships of 1984,^[3] 1985 (3rd place),^[4] 1986,^[5] 1987,^[6] and 1988 (tied for 1st–2nd with Gata Kamsky).^[7]

In 1994 he finished second behind Peter Svidler in the Russian championship at Elista.^[8] In 2002 Ulibin won the Masters tournament of the 12th Abu Dhabi Chess Festival edging out on tiebreak Evgeny Gleizerov and Shukhrat Safin, after all finished on 6.5/9 points.^[9][10] In 2003 he tied for 3rd–10th with Vladimir Belov, Alexei Kornev, Farrukh Amonatov, Alexey Kim, Alexander Areshchenko, Andrey Shariyazdanov and Spartak Vysochin in the St. Petersburg 300 Open tournament.^[11] He came first in the Masters Open Tournament in Biel 2007^[12] and in the Zagreb Open in 2010.^[13] In 2011 he won the Central Serbia Championship in Paraćin,^[14] tied for 2nd–6th with Konstantine Shanava, Maxim Turov, Robert Hovhannisyan and Levon Babujian in the 4th Karen Asrian Memorial in Jermuk^[15] and came first at Winterthur.^[16]

Notable games

• Maxim Sorokin vs Mikhail Ulibin (1986) USSR 1986, French Defense: Tarrasch. Closed Variation (C06), 0-1
• Aivars Gipslis vs Mikhail Ulibin (1988) Ch URS (club) 1988, French Defense: Tarrasch Variation. Open System Euwe-Keres Line (C07), 0-1
• Garry Kasparov vs Mikhail Ulibin (1988) Cannes 1988, English Opening: Symmetrical Variation. Hedgehog Defense (A30), 1/2-1/2

References

1. "C.to Mondiale U20". LOTO - Lost Tournaments (in Italian). Italian Chess Federation. Retrieved 26 December 2015.
2. Men's Chess Olympiads: Mikhail Ulibin. OlimpBase
3. "33rd USSR Junior Chess Championship, Kirovabad, January 1984". RusBase. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
4. "34th USSR Junior Chess Championship, Yurmala, January 1985". RusBase. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
5. "35th USSR Junior Chess Championship, Daugavpils, January 1986". RusBase. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
6. "36th USSR Junior Chess Championship, Kapsukas, January 1987". RusBase. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
7. "37th USSR Junior Chess Championship, Ivano-Frankovsk, January 1988". Retrieved 1 January 2012.
8. "RUS-ch 1994 – 365Chess.com Tournaments". 365chess.com. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
9. Yasir Abbasher (2002-08-22). "Russian Ulibin is champion". Gulf News. Retrieved 26 December 2015.
10. Crowther, Mark (2002-08-26). "TWIC 407: 12th Abu Dhabi International". The Week in Chess. Retrieved 26 December 2015.
11. "St.Petersburg 300 Open January 2004 Russia". FIDE. Retrieved 23 January 2012.
12. "Biel: Master Open Tournaments". BielChessFestival.ch. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
13. "International Open Zagreb 2010 - Group A May 2010 Croatia". FIDE. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
14. "International Championship of Central Serbia". Chessdom. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
15. "4th Karen Asrian Memorial". Chessdom.com. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
16. "Winterthurer Schachwoche Meisteropen November 2011 Switzerland". FIDE. Retrieved 1 January 2012.

External links

• Mikhail Ulibin chess games at 365Chess.com
• Mikhail Ulibin player profile and games at Chessgames.com