Alexander Lagunov

Alexander Lagunow at the Grenke Open in Karlsruhe 2016
Association	Soviet Union (until 1991) Germany (since 1992)
Born	July 14, 1967 Novosibirsk
title	International champion (1991)
Current  Elo rating	2372 (February 2020)
Best Elo rating	2460 (July 1992)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Alexander Lagunow (born July 14, 1967 in Novosibirsk ) is a German chess player and trainer.

Alexander Lagunov was born in Novosibirsk. In 1990 he moved to his future wife in Berlin . In 1991 he was awarded the title of International Master by FIDE . From 1994 to 1996 he became Berlin chess champion three times in a row .

chess

Success as a player

He achieved his first successes at the U14 championships in Novosibirsk. In 1979 he finished second, in 1980 and 1981 he won these championships. From 1981 to 1984 he took regular courses at the Chess School of Alexander Panchenko (1953-2009) from Chelyabinsk. The training group also included the later grandmasters Ruslan Shcherbakov and Maxim Sorokin († 2007) as well as Svetlana Prudnikova , who later reached the women's grandmaster title .

In 1989, Lagunov won the individual championship of the armed forces of the USSR in Novosibirsk in a round-robin tournament with 18 participants. With 11.5 points from 17 games, the untitled debutant and substitute player relegated many later grandmasters to their places: Alexander Baburin (11 from 17), Alexander Nenaschew , Sergei Kalinitschew , Felix Levin , Vladimir Chuchelov , Grigory Serper , Marat Makarow and ten other players . He exceeded the norm for the title " Master of Sports of the USSR " by one point.

In 1991 FIDE awarded him the title of International Master. He achieved the three partial norms for this in 1990 at the International Tournament of Schachfreunde Neukölln (1st – 3rd place with 7 out of 11 together with IM Rigo and Hausner and ahead of Michael Bezold , Robert Rabiega ) and in 1990 and 1991 at the “ Berliner Sommer ” open - with 6 or 6.5 points from 9 games.

From 1994 to 1996 Lagunow won the Berlin championship three times in a row and each qualified for the German individual championship. In 1994 and 1995 he reached 5.5 points from 9 games in Binz, in 1996 he finished fifth in Saarbrücken with 6 out of 9, tied with Karsten Müller , Klaus Bischoff and Robert Rabiega.

Success as a trainer

In 1988 Lagunow made his coaching debut. For Marat Makarov, who was unable to participate in the USSR team championship , he looked after his wife Julija Djomina in the first half of the tournament at the USSR women's championship in 1988 in Almaty (Kazakhstan). All three played in the same club, the Army Sports Club in the Siberian Military District .
Djomina started the first seven rounds with 6.5 points, after which Makarow took over the further care. Djomina became the USSR champion on her first participation, ahead of Nana Alexandria , Nino Gurieli , Svetlana Matwejewa and others.

In Berlin, from 1990 to 1991, Lagunow trained the very successful young players of the Neukölln chess friends: Lars Thiede , Stephan Berndt , Lars Hein, Rolf Behnk and Kurt Güldner. Güldner finished second in the German U20 Championship in Münster in 1990.
Lagunow's future wife Juliane Woitinski († 2011) also played in Münster and reached 3rd place in the German U20 Championship for women.

From 1991 to 1992 Lagunow coached the second division team of SVg Lasker-Steglitz , of which he was a member. After the death of Albrecht Colditz, an important functionary of the club, the training became more and more rare and stopped at some point.

Lagunow is currently looking after his two children Elina and Raphael .

societies

From 1991 to 1996 Lagunow played for SVg Lasker-Steglitz in the 2nd Bundesliga . From 1997 to 2009 he was a member of the Kreuzberg chess club , where he was also used in the 2nd Bundesliga and in the 2003/04 season also played in the 1st Bundesliga . From 2009 to 2014 Lagunow played again for his old club (which is now called SG Lasker Steglitz-Wilmersdorf after a merger ): initially in the Berlin regional league and from 2012 to 2014 in the Oberliga Nord. Lagunow has been playing in the 2nd Bundesliga at SK Zehlendorf since the 2014/15 season .

Chess family Lagunow

Elina (* 1997) became German U12 champion in Willingen in 2009 and won the Berlin U18 female championship in 2010. Raphael (* 2000) was German runner-up U10 in Willingen in 2009 and German U10 champion in Oberhof in 2010. He has held the title of International Master since 2019. They were trained mainly by Julia Belostotska (2005–2008), IM Eugen Tripolsky (2008–2009), Marcos Kiesekamp (2009–2010) and of course their father.

literature

• Frank Hoppe: "The Lagunow Chess Family", in: Mitteilungsblatt des Berliner Schachverband e. V., No. 4, 2010, pp. 12-16

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Winner Berlin Individual Championship ( Memento from February 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ FIDE index card from Raphael Lagunow at FIDE (English)

Web links

• Replayable chess games by Alexander Lagunow on 365Chess.com (English)