Arkadij Naiditsch

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Arkadij Naiditsch at the Dortmund Chess Days 2009
Association LatviaLatvia Latvia (until 1997) Germany (1998 to 2015) Azerbaijan (since 2015)
GermanyGermany 
AzerbaijanAzerbaijan 
Born October 25, 1985
Riga
title International Master (1999)
Grand Master (2001)
Current  Elo rating 2624 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating 2737 (December 2013)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Arkadij Naiditsch (born October 25, 1985 in Riga , Latvian SSR , Soviet Union ) is a German chess player who has been playing for the Azerbaijani Chess Federation since 2015 .

Life

Arkadij Naiditsch, Dortmund 2001

Career

Naiditsch learned chess from his father at the age of five and was already a candidate for mastery at the age of eight. He also trained in an ice hockey school . In 1996 Naiditsch moved with his family from Riga to Dortmund . In the following years, the talent, who became European youth champion U10 in Verdun in 1995 and had a second place at youth world championships , was promoted by his club, the Schachfreunde Dortmund-Brackel , and by the German Chess Federation . Naiditsch was trained by various grandmasters and received the title of International Master in 1999. At the 2001 Dortmund Chess Days, the 15-year-old was presented as the youngest German grandmaster .

Naiditsch received funding from his adopted city of Dortmund, where he was already placed in the top-class field of participants in the annual Dortmund Chess Days in 2003. He finished last but showed that he can keep up at a high level.

On July 25, 2015, it was announced that Naiditsch would switch to the Azerbaijani Chess Federation. The Presidium of the German Chess Federation confirmed the change of federation on July 30, 2015.

Elo development

Single successes

Arkadij Naiditsch, 2005
Naiditsch - Wladimir Kramnik, surrounded by photographers, Chess Olympiad 2008

Naiditsch's greatest success is the sensational win of the Dortmunder Sparkassen Chess Meeting 2005 in front of world-class players like Wladimir Kramnik , Péter Lékó , Wesselin Topalow and Michael Adams . Although he started with the weakest rating in the field of 10 players, he won the tournament by half a point and is thus both the youngest and the first German winner of the strongest German tournament.

In 2007 Naiditsch won his first German individual championship in Bad Königshofen . He won because of the better evaluation before Rainer Buhmann with the same points . In May of the same year Arkadij Naiditsch won a strong open, the “President's Cup” in Baku , ahead of ten other grandmasters.

In April 2009 he was the first and only chess player to play for Germany to reach 2700 Elo points.

In August 2010 he won a competition against Sachar Jefymenko in Mukachevo with 3.5: 2.5 (+1 = 5). In April 2011 Arkadij Naiditsch won with 8.5 points from nine games at the Neckar Open ahead of Arik Braun and David Baramidze with 7.5 points each. In this tournament he achieved an Elo performance of 2922.

In 2013 he won the B group of the Grand Masters tournament at the Tata Steel chess tournament .

Success with national teams

Naiditsch started for Germany for the first time at the 2006 Chess Olympiad . He convinced on the top board with 6 points from ten rounds. At the 2008 Chess Olympiad he also represented Germany on the top board and scored 5.5 points from ten games. In the run-up to the 2010 Chess Olympiad , he sharply criticized officials of the German Chess Federation in an open letter and canceled his participation.

In November 2011, the German team with Arkadij Naiditsch on the first board became European team champions for the first time , defeating the reigning team world champion Armenia, among others. Because of his continued criticism of national coach Uwe Bönsch , the Presidium of the German Chess Federation decided on November 28, 2011 to remove Naiditsch from the national team until further notice, but nominated him in May 2012 after a discussion for the 2012 Chess Olympiad .

At the 2014 Chess Olympiad in Tromsø he won against the reigning world champion Magnus Carlsen .

Chess clubs

For OSG Baden-Baden at the 2017 Bundesliga finals in Berlin

In the federal chess league he played on the top board for the TSV Bindlach shareholder until 2007 , with whom he managed to rise from the second division in 2006. Naiditsch has been playing for OSG Baden-Baden since the 2007/08 season . In his first season he won the German team cup with the Baden team, the German team championship title (which he followed from 2009 to 2015 and from 2017 to 2019 another ten) and scored 11.5 points from 13 games and an Elo performance of 2861 Points the best performance of all Bundesliga players.

Naiditsch also plays team chess in France (previously for Clichy-Echecs 92 and for Marseille Echecs , with whom he became French team champion in 2011 , since the 2014/15 season for Bischwiller , with whom he became champions in 2015 , 2018 and 2019 ), in Hungary for Aquaprofit-NTSK (with which he was Hungarian in the seasons 2008/09 , 2009/10 , 2010/11 , 2011/12 , 2013/14 , 2014/15 , 2015/16 , 2016/17 , 2017/18 and 2018/19 Team champion), in Croatia for Liburnija Rijeka and in China for Jiangsu , with whom he became Chinese team champion in 2014 , for Shenzhen and Chongqing Jiulongpo Yucai . He also won the Dutch master class in the 2006/07 season with Share Dimension Groningen and the Belgian interclubs in 2004 , 2005 and 2006 with KSK 47 Eynatten , and in 2013 with Schachfreunde Wirtzfeld . In the Spanish team championship he played for CA Eborajedrez Talavera in 2005 , for CA Colegio Marcote-EIKM Mondariz in 2011 and for Gros XT in 2013, 2015 to 2017 and 2019 .

He took part in the European Club Cup in 2003 and 2005 with KSK 47 Eynatten , 2004 with Tiendas UPI , 2006 and 2007 with Clichy-Echecs 92 , 2008 to 2012 with OSG Baden-Baden and 2014 with Gros XT . With the team, second place was his greatest success in 2008, in the individual ranking Naiditsch achieved the second best result on the first and 2011 on the fourth board, in 2005 on the second and in 2008 and 2009 on the fourth board each time, the third best result.

Others

He was one of the collaborators of the book series Chess evolution , published from March 2011 to January 2013 , in which important parts of the opening theory were analyzed .

At the beginning of 2005 Naiditsch was naturalized in Germany.

Arkadij Naiditsch has three sisters who also play talented chess and have already participated in German youth championships, but have not played any tournaments since 2008.

To compensate, Naiditsch does karate intensively . Here he has the 5th kyū (1st blue belt).

Since October 2014 he has been married to the chess player Yuliya Shvayger , who plays for the Israeli Chess Federation.

Web links

Commons : Arkadij Naiditsch  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Willy Iclicki: FIDE Golden book 1924-2002 . Euroadria, Slovenia, 2002, p. 113.
  2. ^ Dortmunder Chess Meeting 2001, 1st press conference
  3. ↑ Dortmunder Sparkassen Chess Meeting 2003
  4. ↑ Arkardij Naiditsch turns his back on Germany Deutschlandfunk from July 25, 2015, accessed on July 25, 2015
  5. ↑ Arkadij Naiditsch is now playing for Azerbaijan German Chess Federation from July 30, 2015, accessed on July 31, 2015
  6. ↑ Numbers according to FIDE Elo lists. Data sources: fide.com (period since 2001), olimpbase.org (period 1971 to 2001)
  7. ↑ Sparkassen Chess Meeting 2005
  8. ^ Tournament page of the competition against Sachar Jefymenko , accessed on March 2, 2011
  9. ↑ TATA Steel Chess Tournament 2013, Standings of grandmaster group B , www.tatasteelchess.com
  10. ↑ MEN'S CHESS OLYMPIADS - Naiditsch, Arkadij (Germany) on OlimpBase (English)
  11. ↑ Why the German A-team will not participate in the Olympiad , Chessvibes.com, July 28, 2010
  12. ↑ We are European champions! on schachbund.de, November 11, 2011
  13. ^ Declaration by the DSB Presidium
  14. ↑ Press release ( Memento from May 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  15. ↑ Nominations for the Chess Olympiad ( Memento from May 31, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  16. ↑ Chess Olympiad 2014: Magnus Carlsen vs. Arkadij Naiditsch Naiditsch's victory to understand (German)
  17. ↑ Arkadij Naiditsch's results at Spanish team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  18. ↑ Arkadij Naiditsch's results at European Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)
  19. ↑ GM Arkadij Naiditsch happily arrived at the Ehehafen , zugzwang.de, November 2, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Naiditsch, Arkadij
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Naidičs, Arkādijs (Latvian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chess player
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Riga , Latvian SSR , Soviet Union