Andrei Yevgenyevich Yessipenko

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Andrei Yessipenko 2017
Association RussiaRussia Russia
Born March 22, 2002
Novocherkassk
title Grandmaster (2018)
Current  Elo rating 2682 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating 2682 (April 2020)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Andrei Evgenjewitsch Jessipenko ( Russian Андре́й Евге́ньевич Есипе́нко , scientific transliteration Andrej Evgen'evič Esipenko , at the World Chess Federation FIDE Andrey Esipenko ; born March 22, 2002 in Novocherkassk ) is a Russian chess player .

Life

Jessipenko learned the game of chess from his father at the age of five; as a first grader he began to take part in chess tournaments. Very early on he stood out with excellent results in youth tournaments: In 2012 he won the European Youth Championship U10 in Prague with 8.5 / 9; at the European U12 Championships in 2013 in Budva , he finished second. In 2014 he won the Russian U13 youth championship, in 2015 he was vice European U14 champion in Porec (behind Sergei Lobanow after ranking ), and second in the U14 youth championship in Porto Carras in the same year (after Schamsiddin Wochidow after ranking ). In 2016 he was second after Semyon Lomassow at the youth world championship in Khanty-Mansiysk .

In 2017 he finished second after Alexei Sorokin at the Russian U20 youth championship in Loo . In the same year he won both the U16 European Youth Championship in Mamaia and the U16 World Youth Championship in Montevideo . At the end of this year he took part in the rapid chess world championship in Riyadh , where he scored an excellent 7.5 points in 15 rounds and beat vice world champion Sergei Karjakin in a sensational combination game .

In 2018 he was awarded the title of Grand Master . He achieved the necessary standards at the Aeroflot Open in Moscow in 2016, the European Championship in Minsk 2017 and the Open in Gmund am Tegernsee (International Bavarian Championship) in 2017 and Gibraltar in 2018. In January 2019, Jessipenko finished second in the Tata Challengers tournament in Wijk aan Zee . In March of this year he finished 13th at the European Championships in Skopje (with 7.5 / 11) and qualified for the 2019 World Chess Cup . In this he eliminated the former FIDE world champion Ruslan Ponomarjow in the first round . In the Chinese team championship, Yessipenko played for Beijing in 2019 .

Jessipenko is trained by Sergei Schipow .

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