Albert Kapengut

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Albert Sinovievich Kapengut ( Russian Альберт Зиновьевич Капенгут , Belarusian Альбэрт Капэнгут / Albert Kapenhut; born July 4, 1944 in Kazan ) is a Belarusian chess player and coach.

Life

In 1961 he won the Minsk championship . He was able to win the championship of the Belarusian SSR seven times : 1962, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1976, 1977 and 1978. In 2003 he won the championship of New Jersey.

From 1964 to 1968, with the exception of 1967, he was a member of the Soviet national team at the annual student world championships, such as Eduard Buchman , Roman Dzindzichashvili , Boris Gulko , Wiktar Kuprejtschyk , Hennadij Kusmin , Volodymyr Savon and Volodymyr Tukmakow . The team achieved the gold medal, with Kapengut also having the best result of all players on the fourth board in Örebro in 1966 (7.5 points from 8 games) and in 1968 in Ybbs an der Donau the best result of all players on the first reserve board (with 6 from 8).

As a chess trainer he trained for example Juri Schulman, Ilia Smirin , Boris Gelfand and Michail Tal , whose second he was in 1979 and 1980. He was also part of Anatoly Karpov's theoretical staff . He now teaches chess at the Kings & Queens Chess Club, among others . He himself was trained by Issaak Boleslawski and Alexei Sokolski .

He has held the title of International Master since 1991 . His Elo rating is 2385 (as of September 2014), but he is listed as inactive because he has not played an Elo-rated game since the 43rd Annual World Amateur Team & US Team East tournament held in Parsippany in February 2013 . Kapengut's best Elo rating was 2490 for 1973. His best historical rating before the Elo rating was introduced was 2598, he achieved it in December 1967 and was 63rd in the world rankings. Since April 2008 he has been playing for the US Chess Federation . In the United States Chess League he played for the New Jersey Knockouts from 2009 to 2013 .

Chess books

  • Benoni A65 . Informator-Verlag, Belgrade 1996 (together with Boris Gelfand)
  • Benoni A70 . Informator-Verlag, Belgrade 1998 (together with Boris Gelfand)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ О послевоенных чемпионатах Минска по шахматам (1946-1960) . Article by Wolf Rubinchik from June 30, 2016 on belisrael.info (Belarusian)
  2. ↑ Table of the Belarusian championship 1962 with 11 of the games (English)
  3. ↑ Table of the Belarusian championship 1968 with 3 of the games (English)
  4. ↑ Table of the Belarusian championship 1969 with 17 of the games (English)
  5. ↑ Table of the Belarusian championship 1977 with 17 of the games (English)
  6. ↑ Table of the Belarusian championship 1978 with 5 of the games (English)
  7. ↑ Chess Masters of New Jersey 1946 to 2017 on the website of the New Jersey Chess Federation (English)
  8. ↑ Albert Kapengut's student world championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  9. ^ Garry Kasparov : My Great Predecessors, Part 2 . Everyman Chess, London 2004, p. 469 (English).
  10. ↑ Joe Gallagher . The Magic of Mikhail Tal . Everyman Chess, London 2001, p. 103 (English).
  11. ^ Garry Kasparov: Revolution in the 70's . Everyman Chess, London 2007, p. 78 (English).
  12. ↑ Sokolsky Memorial (English)
  13. ↑ Albert Kapengut on chessmetrics.com (English)
  14. ↑ Change of Association 2008 (English)
personal data
SURNAME Kapengut, Albert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kapengut, Albert Z (FIDE); Капенгут, Альберт Зиновьевич (Russian); Капэнгут, Альбэрт (Belarusian); Kapenhut, Albert (Belarusian transcription)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belarusian chess player
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Kazan