Alexei Borissowitsch Wyschmanawin

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Alexei Borissowitsch Wyschmanawin ( Russian Алексей Борисович Выжманавин ; born January 1, 1960 in Moscow ; † January 6, 2000 ibid) was a Russian chess master.

Life

At the beginning of his career, the Moscow Vyshmanavin regularly took part in the annual city championship there. In 1981 he placed sixth, ahead of strong grandmasters such as Dawid Bronstein , Juri Rasuwajew , Artur Jussupow , Alexei Suetin , Rafael Vaganian and Evgeni Wassjukow . In 1984 and 1986 Wyschmanavin was able to win the Moscow championship.

After he became grandmaster in 1989 , he achieved fourth place at the 57th championship of the USSR in 1990 in Leningrad, tied on points after the Sonneborn-Berger ranking behind tournament winners Alexander Beliavsky , Leonid Judassin and Yevgeny Bareev . The following year at the 58th championship held in Moscow, he placed fifth to ninth. His international tournament successes include victories in Nałęczów in 1986 and in Tashkent in 1987 . In the 1988 Moscow tournament he was tied for first with Rasuwajew, Gregory Kaidanov and Lev Psachis . In 1989 in Sochi he won ahead of Joël Lautier and Alexander Chalifman . This was followed by his win in 1990/1991 at the Rilton Cup in Stockholm and in 1991 another success in Gelsenkirchen before Vasily Smylow . In 1993 Wyschmanawin could surprise the chess world with his second place behind Judassin at the tournament of León , whereby the favored Anatoly Karpow was referred to the third place shared with Wesselin Topalow and Péter Lékó .

In rapid and blitz chess , Wyschmanawin had the reputation of a "speed demon". At rapid chess events of the Professional Chess Association (PCA) in the 1990s, he was often able to defeat his better-known opponents.

At the Moscow PCA event in Moscow in 1994, he reached the semifinals, in which he narrowly lost to Vladimir Kramnik after he had previously eliminated Alexei Schirow and Viktor Korchnoi . On the occasion of such a quick PCA tournament in New York in 1994, commentator Maurice Ashley compared Wyschmanwin's style to that of a predator: "He is a dangerous player, observing like a cat, ready to jump."

He reached his highest rating of 2620 in January 1993.

Wyschmanawin last took part in international chess tournaments in 1997 and withdrew from chess in the last years of his life. He died of a heart attack in early 2000 . He was living alone at the time, but went out with friends on January 6, 2000, the Russian New Year. His dead body was not discovered until six days later. After Wyschmanawin's death, the then FIDE world champion Alexander Khalifman mentioned him as an example of a “second series” of grandmasters beginning with Louis Paulsen , whose “huge creative contribution to the development of chess is clearly underestimated”.

National team

With the Russian national team Vyshmanavin won the 1992 Chess Olympiad in Manila and the 1992 European Team Championship in Debrecen , where he also achieved the second-best result of the reserve players. He also took third place with Russia at the team world championship in 1993 in Lucerne .

societies

In his only participation in the Russian team championship reached Vyshmanavin 1995 with Tattransgas-Itil Kazan the second place. At the European Club Cup Wyschmanawin participated five times. In 1986 and 1988 he won the competition with CSKA Moscow , in 1990 he failed with Lokomotiv in the round of 16 at his previous club. In 1995 he failed in the preliminary round with Vektor Novosibirsk, in 1996 he won with Sberbank Tatarstan Kazan .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Robert Byrne : Chess , New York Times , July 13, 1993 (English)
  2. ↑ a b Jude Acers: Chess News , Gamecolony.com (English)
  3. ↑ "He's a dangerous one, the V-man, looking like a cat, ready to pounce.", According to Rick Bragg: Fast? Furious? Chess, ESPN Style , New York Times , June 28, 1994 (English)
  4. ↑ Schach , 4/2000, page 64
  5. ↑ Alexei Wyschmanawin's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  6. ↑ Alexei Wyschmanawin's results at European Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  7. ↑ Alexei Wyschmanawins results at team world championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  8. ↑ Alexei Vyshmanavin's results at Russian team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  9. ↑ Alexei Wyschmanawins results at European Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)

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personal data
SURNAME Wyschmanawin, Alexei Borissowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wyschmanawin, Alexei; Vyzmanavin, Alexey; Выжманавин, Алексей Борисович
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian chess player
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow
DATE OF DEATH January 6, 2000
Place of death Moscow