Baadur Jobava

Baadur Dschobawa, Chess Olympiad 2016
Association	Georgia
Born	November 26, 1983 Gali
title	International Master (2000) Grand Master (2001)
Current  Elo rating	2603 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating	2734 (September 2012)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Baadur Dschobawa ( Georgian ბაადურ ჯობავა ; born November 26, 1983 in Gali , Georgian SSR ) is a Georgian chess master. In 2000 he became International Master , since 2001 he has held the title of Grand Master . At the World Chess Federation FIDE and the German Chess Federation it is listed under the spelling Baadur Jobava .

Life

He grew up in Gali in the Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia in Georgia. The family loved chess. When he was four years old, he learned the game from his father, a candidate for the championship. At the beginning of the Abkhaz civil war in 1992, the family moved to Kharkiv , Ukraine . The younger brother Beglar (* 1985) was a Georgian U12 champion and holds the title of international champion. Baadur Dschobawa was also successful in table tennis in his youth . Since 2015 he has been married to the women's grandmaster Aleksandra Dimitrijević from Bosnia and Herzegovina for the second time and has a son with her.

successes

At the U16 Chess Olympiad in Artek in 1999 he reached second place with the Georgian national team and scored 7 points from 9 games on the first board. In 2001, at the age of 17, he won the Staufer Open in Schwäbisch Gmünd . In 2003 he won the Dubai Open and the Georgian individual championship in Tbilisi with a lead of 1.5 points . In October 2005 he won the 2nd Samba Cup in Skanderborg . In July 2006 he won an open in Taiyuan . In March 2007 he was Georgian individual champion for the second time in Tbilisi. At the 2009 European Championships in Budva he was third. In February 2014 he won the Bronstein Memorial in Minsk .

At the M-Tel Masters in Sofia in May 2006 , he seconded Wesselin Topalow . In September at the 2006 World Chess Championship against Vladimir Kramnik , Topalov decided on Ivan Cheparinov .

With his highest rating of 2734 in September 2012, he led the Georgian Elo rankings and was in 19th place in the FIDE world rankings.

National team

With the Georgian national team Jobava took part in the Chess Olympiads in 2000 , 2002 , 2004 , 2006 , 2008 , 2010 , 2014 and 2016 . In 2004 in Calvià he achieved both the best result on the fourth board and the best Elo performance of all participants, and in 2016 in Baku he received an individual gold medal for the best result of all participants on the first board. He also represented Georgia at the 2005 World Team Championships and the 1999 European Team Championships (in the second team), 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011 , 2013 and 2015. Jobava took third place with the team in 2003 and in the individual standings in 2001 second place on the fourth board.

societies

In the 2004/05 season he played for SC Baden-Oos (from December 2004 OSC Baden-Baden ) in the German Federal Chess League , in the 2016/17 season he played for SV 1930 Hockenheim . In the Georgian 1st league he played for Tbilisi , with which he took part in the European Club Cup 2003 in the Spanish 2007 for Intel-Tiendas UPI , 2011 for the Kasparov chess school Marcote and 2017 for Escola d'Escacs de Barcelona , in the Armenian for Mika Yerevan , with whom he became Armenian team champion in 2008 and took part in the European Club Cup, in the Greek for Kidon Chania , in the Egyptian for Sharkia Dokhan , in the French for Tremblay-en-France and in the Croatian for ŠK Zagreb , with which he became Croatian team champion in 2007 and took part in the European Club Cup. In Ukraine he was team champion in 2010 and 2011 with A Dan Dzo & PGMB and took part in the European Club Cup, where he achieved third place with the team in 2010; In 2014 he played for the Illichivsk Chess Academy . He won the 2008/09 Asian Club Cup in al-Ain with the Al-Ain Chess Club from the United Arab Emirates. In Austria he played in the 2011/12 season for champions SK Advisory Invest Baden and in the 2017/18 season for SK Sparkasse Jenbach , with which he also won the title. In China he has been playing for the Qingdao School team since 2012 . In the Russian team championship he played for Ladja Kazan in 2007 , in 2013 for the team of PGMB Rostov-on-Don , with which he also took part in the European Club Cup, and in 2014 and 2015 for Universitet Beloretschensk , with which he also started at the European Club Cup in 2015. In Sweden, Dschobawa played for the Malmö AS team from 2015 to 2018 , with whom he became champions in 2018 .

Play style

Baadur Dschobawa is considered to be a self-sacrificing player who has prepared his combinations well. An example may be a game on October 27, 2004 against Alexander Grishchuk from round 12 of the Chess Olympiad in Calvià. While Grishchuk needed a lot of time, Dschobava only made a few minutes for White's 26 moves in the game.

Baadur Dschobawa -
Alexander Grishchuk

	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 22.… Ne5 – c4

23. Nf5 – g7! Rf7xg7
24. Be4xh7 f6 – f5
25. Qh4 – h5 Be7 – h4
26. Bh7xf5 +

Grishchuk gave up, since averting the checkmate would cost him a rook.

Web links

Commons : Baadur Dschobawa  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Re-playable chess games by Baadur Dschobawa on chessgames.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sagar Shah: Living life the Jobi way , Chessbase .com, November 5, 2015 (English)
2. ↑ Baadur Dschobawa's results at the U16 Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
3. ↑ Baadur Dschobawa's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
4. ↑ Baadur Dschobawa's results at team world championships on olimpbase.org (English)
5. ↑ Baadur Dschobawa's results at the European Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
6. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Baadur Dschobawa's results at European Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)
7. ↑ Baadur Dschobawa's results at the Armenian team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
8. ↑ Baadur Dschobawa's results at the Ukrainian team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
9. ↑ Baadur Dschobawa's results at Asian Club Cups ( memento from January 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) on olimpbase.org (English)
10. ↑ Baadur Dschobawa's results at Russian team championships on olimpbase.org (English)