Alexander Anatolyevich Motylev

Alexander Motylev, 2008
Surname	Alexander Motylev
Association	Russia
Born	June 17, 1979 Sverdlovsk
title	International Master (1997) Grand Master (2000)
Current  Elo rating	2641 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating	2710 (Jul-Sep 2009)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Alexander Motyljow ( Russian Александр Анатольевич Мотылёв ; at FIDE Alexander Motylev ; born June 17, 1979 in Sverdlovsk , today's Yekaterinburg ) is a Russian chess player . He has been a grandmaster since 2000 .

Career

He learned to play chess from his father when he was four years old. His grandfather accompanied him to tournaments. His family supported him in his chess career from an early age. His first coach was Anatoly Ivanovich Litovsky, who convinced the enthusiastic football-playing boy to concentrate his talent on chess, his second coach was Anatoly Timofeyevich Terentjev.

successes

He won the Russian youth championships in the U16 and U18 categories. In 2001 he won the Russian individual championship in Elista, Kalmykia . In November 2003 he won the Corsica Masters, a rapid chess tournament , in Bastia . In 2005 he finished second at the Aeroflot Open in Moscow behind Emil Sutovsky . His game against Yevgeny Bareev at the Russian Superfinal on December 29, 2005 won the prize for the best game of the tournament. In February 2006 he won the B tournament in Wijk aan Zee with Magnus Carlsen . In February 2008 he was again second at the Aeroflot Open, this time behind Jan Nepomnyashchi . He won the Karpov tournament in Poikowski in June 2009. In 2014, he won the individual European championship in Yerevan .

He was seconded by Yevgeny Najer and was second to Swidler , Kramnik (at the 2006 World Chess Championship in Elista) and Karjakin .

His best position on the FIDE world rankings was 23rd in April 2005. With the black pieces, he prefers to play the Russian or Sicilian defense .

National team

With the Russian national team, he finished second on the second reserve board at the World Team Championship in October 2001 . He also participated in the European Team Championship in 2005 and the third Russian team at the Chess Olympiad in 2010 in part. He is the captain of the Russian team at the 2018 Chess Olympiad in Batumi .

societies

In Russia he played for the clubs Gasowik Tjumen and Max Wen Yekaterinburg , in the 2006 season for Ural Oblast Sverdlovsk . That year he became the Russian team champion for the first time . In 2007 he played for Ural Yekaterinburg and was again team champion with the club in 2008. From there he moved to Tomsk-400 , with which he became champion in 2012. Since 2013 he has been playing for Malachit Oblast Sverdlovsk , with which he became champion in 2014. He took part in the European Club Cup in 2000 with AS RAT Bucharest , since then eleven times with his Russian clubs, he won the competition in 2008 with Ural Oblast Sverdlovsk . In Romania he plays on the first board of CS Dinamo Bucureşti , in Spain in 2007 and 2008 for Caja Canarias , with whom he was team champion in 2008 . He also played in the Dutch (in the 2006/07 season for the champions Share Dimension Groningen ) and Chinese (since 2008 for the China Mobile Group Chongqing Company Ltd ) team championships. In the German Federal Chess League he played since the 2006/07 season for Sportfreunde Katernberg on the second and first board and since the 2009/10 season for SV Mülheim-Nord .

Game example

Inarkiev - Motylev
Moscow 2002

	a	b	c	d	e	f	G	H
8th									8th
7th									7th
6th									6th
5									5
4th									4th
3									3
2									2
1									1
	a	b	c	d	e	f	G	H

Position after 21. g2 – g4

Motyljow won a spectacular game in the fifth round of the Aeroflot Open 2002 with the black pieces against Ernesto Inarkiev .

Inarkiev - Motylev

1. e2 – e4 c7 – c5 2. Ng1 – f3 d7 – d6 3. d2 – d4 c5xd4 4. Nf3xd4 Ng8 – f6 5. Nb1 – c3 g7 – g6 6. Bc1 – e3 Bf8 – g7 7. Bf1 – e2 0 –0 8. f2 – f4 Nb8 – c6 9. Nd4 – b3 Bc8 – e6 The dragon variant , ECO code B72 10. Be2 – f3 a7 – a5 11. a2 – a4 Be6 – c4 12. Qd1 – d2 Qd8 – c8 13 Nb3 – d4 Nf6 – g4 14. Nd4xc6 b7xc6 15. Be3 – g1 Re8 – b8 16. b2 – b3 Bc4 – a6 17. Re1 – b1 f7 – f5 18. e4xf5 Qc8xf5 19. h2 – h3 Ng4 – h6 20. Bg1 –E3 e7 – e5 21. g2 – g4 According to the obvious answer 21.… Qd7 White plays 22. f5 with an unclear position. However, Motyljow finds a surprising queen sacrifice in the long run. 21.… e5xf4 22. g4xf5 f4xe3 23. Qd2xe3 Nh6xf5 24. De3 – e6 + Kg8 – h8 25. Nc3 – e2 Rb8 – e8 26. De6xe8 Rf8xe8 27. c2 – c4 Nf5 – d4 28. Ke1 – f2 Nd4xf3 29. Kf2xf3 29 –D5 30. Rb1 – c1 d5 – d4 31. Rh1 – d1 c6 – c5 32. Rd1 – d3 Bg7 – h6 33. Rc1 – e1 La6 – b7 + 34. Kf3 – g3 Kh8 – g8 35. h3 – h4 Re8 – e5 36. Kg3 – f2 Bh6 – e3 + 37. Kf2 – g3 g6 – g5 38. h4xg5 Re5xg5 + 39. Kg3 – h4 Rg5 – e5 40. Kh4 – g3 h7 – h6 41. Ne2 – g1 Re5 – g5 + 42. Kg3 – h2 Rg5 –H5 + 43. Kh2 – g3 Rh5 – g5 + 44. Kg3 – h2 Be3 – f2 45. Re1 – f1 Rg5 – g2 + 46. Kh2 – h3 Bf2xg1 47. b3 – b4 c5xb4 48. c4 – c5 Bg1 – e3 49. Rf1– f6 Rg2 – g1 50. c5 – c6 Bb7 – c8 + 51. Kh3 – h2 Rg1 – c1 52. Rd3 – b3 Kg8 – g7 0: 1 White gave up.

Web links

Commons : Alexander Motyljow  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Interview ( Memento from October 31, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) at Chesscafe.com ( PDF ; 286 kB; English)
• Replayable chess games by Alexander Anatoljewitsch Motyljow on chessgames.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Moyljow against Barejew for replay on chessgames.com (English)
2. ↑ Alexander Motyljow's results at team world championships on olimpbase.org (English)
3. ↑ Alexander Motyljow's results at European team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
4. ↑ Alexander Motyljow's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
5. ↑ Alexander Motyljows results at Russian team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
6. ↑ Alexander Motyljow's results at European Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)
7. ↑ Inarkiev against Motyljow for replay on chessgames.com (English)