Nikita Vitiugov

Nikita Vitiugov

Nikita Vitiugov at the Grenke Chess Open 2016
Full name Nikita Kirillovich Vitiugov
Country  Russia
Born (1987-02-04) 4 February 1987
Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Title Grandmaster
FIDE rating 2734 (April 2016)
Peak rating 2747 (March 2014)

Nikita Kirillovich Vitiugov (Russian: Никита Кириллович Витюгов; born 4 February 1987) is a Russian chess grandmaster. He was a member of the gold-medal winning Russian team at the World Team Chess Championship in 2009 and 2013.

Vitiugov was one of Peter Svidler's seconds in the Candidates Tournaments of 2013 and 2014.[1][2]

Career

Vitiugov was the under-18 Russian champion in 2005 and the runner-up at the European under-18 championship in the same year. He came second at the Russian Junior Championship both in 2006 and 2007.[3] He finished runner-up in the 2006 World Junior Chess Championship.[4]

In July 2006, he won the "Blue Sevan" round-robin tournament in Sevan, Armenia with a score of 6.5/9 and thanks to this achievement he gained his final Grandmaster norm.[5][6] In December of that year he took part in the Russian Championship Superfinal for the first time, finishing eleventh.[7]

He qualified through the 2007 European Individual Chess Championship for the Chess World Cup 2007, in which he was knocked out by Konstantin Sakaev in the first round. In September of that year he won the Russian Championship Higher League and qualified for the Superfinal for the second year in a row.[8] In the latter he tied for 4th–6th.[9]

In 2008 he won the Baltic Sea Cup[10] and the Cup of Russia, defeating Boris Savchenko in the final.[11]

In November 2009, he took part in the Chess World Cup 2009: he sequentially knocked out Abhijeet Gupta, Gilberto Milos and Konstantin Sakaev, then lost to Sergey Karjakin in the fourth round. The following month, Vitiugov finished third in the 62nd Russian Championship Superfinal.[12] Thanks to his results in the 2009 Superfinal and in the 2009 World Team Championship, he crossed the 2700 Elo rating mark for the first time in the FIDE rating list of March 2010.

In April 2010, he took part in the 11th Karpov Poikovsky Tournament, finishing joint third, fourth on tiebreak.[13]

In March 2011, he tied for 1st–3rd with Evgeny Tomashevsky and Lê Quang Liêm in the Aeroflot Open, placing second on tiebreak.[14]

Vitiugov competed in the Chess World Cup 2011, where he knocked out Alexei Bezgodov in the first round and Anton Korobov in the second, before losing to Vladimir Potkin in the third round. At the end of December 2011 he took part in the 54th Reggio Emilia chess tournament, scoring two wins, two draws and six losses.[15]

In June 2012, Vitiugov tied for first place with Dmitry Andreikin and Daniil Dubov, finishing in third place on tiebreak.[16]

In January 2013, Vitiugov won the Gibraltar Masters tournament beating defending champion Nigel Short in a rapid playoff. He and three others finished the tournament 8/10.[17] In the 2013 Alekhine Memorial, held from 20 April to 1 May, Vitiugov finished fifth, with a score of 4.5/9 (+1−1=7).[18]

At the Chess World Cup 2013 he defeated Conrad Holt and Markus Ragger in rounds one and two respectively, then was eliminated in the third round by Alexander Morozevich. In October of the same year he finished third in the Russian Championship Superfinal.[19]

In January 2014, at the Gibraltar Masters he tied for first place with Vassily Ivanchuk and Ivan Cheparinov. In the playoffs, after winning against the former, he lost to the latter and eventually finished second.[20] In the 2015 edition he finished equal third, fourth on tiebreak.[21]

In August 2015 he placed third in the Russian Championship Superfinal.[22] In the following month, he competed in the Chess World Cup 2015, where he was knocked out in the second round by Le Quang Liem, after defeating Samvel Ter-Sahakyan in round one.

Team competitions

Vitiugov made his debut in the Russian national team in August 2009 playing in the 6th China-Russia Match, held with the Scheveningen system; he scored 2.5/5.[23] He played board 6 for the Russian team that win the gold medal at the World Team Chess Championship 2009 in Bursa scoring 5.5/6. His rating performance of 2939, the second best of the event, earned him also an individual gold medal.[24] Vitiugov played on the third board for Russia's second team at the 39th Chess Olympiad scoring 6/9.[25] In July 2011 he took part in the 8th World Team Championship in Ningbo scoring 4/6 on board 5; thanks to this result, he won an individual gold medal.[26] In the World Team Championship 2013 in Antalya, Vitiugov won team gold and individual bronze playing on the reserve board.[27]

Vitiugov plays for Saint-Petersburg Chess Federation in the Russian Team Championship and in the European Chess Club Cup. He helped his team to win gold at the European Club Cup 2011, scoring 5.5/7 with a rating performance of 2835; thanks to this result he also won individual gold on second board.[28][29] In November 2012 he helped his team to win silver at the 28th European Club Cup and also won individual bronze on board 3.[30][31] In the Russian Team Championship 2013 he won team gold and individual bronze on the second board.[32] In the 29th European Club Cup he took silver on the third board.[33]

Books

References

  1. ↑ "Chess Candidates 2013 start in London Chessdom". Chessdom. 2013-03-14. Retrieved 2015-08-12.
  2. ↑ McGourty, Colin (2014-03-30). "Candidates, Rd 14: Sergey snatches second". chess24. Retrieved 2015-08-12.
  3. ↑ Interview. Chessdom. 2007-10-04
  4. ↑ Shen Yang and Zaven Andriasian World Junior Champions. ChessBase. 2006-10-17
  5. ↑ TWIC 611
  6. ↑ GM title application. FIDE.
  7. ↑ Evgeny Alekseev wins Russian Superfinal. ChessBase. 2006-12-16
  8. ↑ 60th Championship of Russia (Higher league). TWIC 671. 2007-09-17
  9. ↑ Alexander the First wins Russian Championship Superfinal. ChessBase. 2007-12-31
  10. ↑ TWIC 718
  11. ↑ http://www.ruschess.com
  12. ↑ "Russian Superfinal: Grischuk and Galliomova win". ChessBase. 2009-12-30. Retrieved 2015-08-12.
  13. ↑ Karjakin, Bologan win Karpov Poikovsky tournament. ChessBase. 2010-06-13
  14. ↑ Crowther, Mark (2011-02-16). "Aeroflot Open 2011". The Week in Chess. Retrieved 2015-08-20.
  15. ↑ TWIC 896
  16. ↑ 65th Russian Championship Higher League 2012 TWIC. 2012-06-28
  17. ↑ Nikita Vitiugov wins Gibraltar after tiebreak. Chessdom. 2013-02-01
  18. ↑ "Aronian and Gelfand win Alekhine Memorial 2013". ChessBase News. 1 May 2013. Retrieved 2 May 2013.
  19. ↑ "Russian Super Final: Svidler, Gunina win". ChessBase. 2013-10-14. Retrieved 2015-08-11.
  20. ↑ Tradewise Gibraltar 2014: Masters round 10
  21. ↑ 2015 Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival - Masters Chess-Results
  22. ↑ "Tomashevsky and Goryachkina Become Champions". Russian Chess Federation. Retrieved 2015-08-20.
  23. ↑ Russia vs China match 2009 TWIC August 24, 2009
  24. ↑ Crawley, Gavin (2010-01-13). "Bursa: Russia wins Gold, USA Silver, India Bronze". ChessBase. Retrieved 4 May 2010.
  25. ↑ 39th Olympiad Khanty-Mansiysk 2010 Open: Russia 2 team composition Chess-Results
  26. ↑ 8th World Team Chess Championship: Ningbo 2011. OlimpBase.
  27. ↑ "World Team 09: Russia takes gold; China silver". ChessBase. 2013-12-06. Retrieved 2015-08-10.
  28. ↑ 27th European Club Cup 2011 Chess-Results
  29. ↑ Saint-Petersburg CF wins the European Chess Cup. ChessBase. 2011-10-06
  30. ↑ 28th European Club Cup 2012 TWIC October 17, 2012
  31. ↑ 28th European Chess Club Cup: best board results. OlimpBase.
  32. ↑ 20th Russian Chess Premier League: Sochi 2013 OlimpBase
  33. ↑ European Club Cup, Final Standings. pogonina.com. 2013-10-29.

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