Emil Sutovsky

Emil Sutovsky, Wijk aan Zee 2010
Association	Soviet Union (until 1991) Israel (since 1992)
Born	September 19, 1977 Baku
title	International Master (1993) Grand Master (1996)
Current  Elo rating	2640 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating	2703 (January 2012)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Emil Sutovsky ( Hebrew אמיל סוטובסקי; * September 19, 1977 in Baku ) is a Soviet- Israeli chess master .

Career

Sutovsky, who learned chess at the age of 4, emigrated to Israel in 1991 and was already a promising talent in the USSR , where he participated in national youth championships. In 1996 he was in Medellín Youth World Champion and was awarded the grandmaster title by FIDE . In 1997 he won tournaments in Hoogeveen (ahead of Judit Polgár , Loek van Wely and Wassili Smyslow ) and Buenos Aires , 1998 on the Isle of Man , 1999 in Essen , 1999/2000 in Hastings .

He celebrated his greatest success in 2001 when he became European champion in Ohrid , after a playoff against Ruslan Ponomarjow . In 2003, Sutovsky won the first ever Internet European Championship (on the ChessBase server ). At the turn of 2003/04 he won together with Luke McShane and Miguel Illescas Córdoba in Pamplona . In 2005 he won the Open of Gibraltar (divided), and the Aeroflot Open from Moscow and became the elite tournament after Dortmund invited in the same year in which it - even though he was out of the price tiers - a brilliant victory against the reigning world champion Vladimir Kramnik managed .

He took part in two FIDE knockout world championships : in 2000 in New Delhi he was eliminated in the first round, in 2001 in Moscow he reached the third round, in which he was defeated by Vasyl Ivanchuk . Sutovsky took part in the World Chess Cup four times . While he reached the third round in 2005 and 2011 , he failed in the first round in 2007 and 2009 . Sutovsky is President of the Association of Chess Professionals . He is also a trained baritone singer and occasionally appears in public.

National team

Sutovsky participated with the Israeli national team in the 1996 , 1998 , 2000 , 2002 , 2004 , 2006 , 2010 , 2012 and 2014 Chess Olympiads . He was most successful in 2010 when he reached third place with the team and won the individual ranking on the second board. He also represented Israel at the World Team Championships in 2005, 2010, 2011 and 2015 and the European Team Championships in 1997, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009 and 2011. At the European Team Championships in 2003 and 2005, he achieved second place with the team. In 2003 he also won two individual medals for the best rating of all participants and the third-best result on the third board in terms of percentage, and in 2005 he achieved the second-best individual result on the second board.

societies

In Israel, Sutovsky played for Elitzur Petach-Tikwa , Hapoel Kfar Saba and Aschdod , with all of these clubs he also took part in the European Club Cup . In the Russian team championship he played in 2005 and 2008 for the TPS Saransk , with which he also took part in the European Club Cup in 2005, in 2006 for Meriya Moscow and in 2012 and 2013 for Navigator Moscow . In the British Four Nations Chess League , Sutovsky played for Guildford A&DC from 2003 to 2006 and won the competition in 2004 , in the Bosnian Premijer Liga he played in 2004 for ŠK Kiseljak.In Slovakia, he played for the team of Corpora Lipovec , with whom he played in 2003 participated in the European Club Cup, in Azerbaijan until 2012 for SOCAR Baku , with whom he won the European Club Cup 2012, since then for Odlar Yurdu , whom he represented three times at the European Club Cup. In the Austrian Bundesliga , he played in the season 2008/09 the Master SK Husek , since the season 2015/16 he plays for SK Absam . He played in the French Top 16 for Mulhouse Philidor in the 2003/04 season , and in the Czech Extra League in the 2015/16 season for the second team of ŠK JOLY Lysá nad Labem .

Game fragment

Sutovsky played one of his best games in the 2005 tournament in Gibraltar , in which he was shared tournament winner. The game below against the English grandmaster Daniel Gormally , in which Sutovsky achieved a brilliant attacking victory with the black pieces and for which he was awarded the tournament's beauty prize, was what the future world chess champion Viswanathan Anand called the best game he would have ever seen.

Daniel Gormally - Emil Sutovsky
Gibraltar, 2005

	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 the 33rd move (33rd Qg3 – g4) by White

Black has already put a rook into the business to be able to deploy his attack. In this position Sutovsky finds the winning combination .

33.… e4xf3!

White rook b1 is under attack by the queen. White makes the only sensible move, which also leads to defeat.

34. Qg4xf5

An intermediate check follows .

34.… f3xg2 + 35. Kh1 – g1

Black doesn't take the queen on f5 again, which would have led to a losing position, but moves:

35 ... Bb2 – d4 + 36. Qf5 – f2 (only move)

And the culmination of the combination follows:

36 ... Nh5 – f4 !!

White gave up. He is not allowed to capture the d4 bishop with the queen, since 37 ... Nf4 – h3 would then checkmate , on the other hand either Nf4 – h3 or Nf4 – e2 is mate. But 37. h2 – h4 (only move) is followed by 37.… Nf4 – e2 + 38. Kg1 – h2 Bd4xf2 along with g2 – g1D and Black's decisive material advantage.

Web links

Commons : Emil Sutovsky  - collection of images

• Replayable chess games by Emil Sutovsky on chessgames.com (English)
• Compositions by Emil Sutovsky on the Schwalbe's PDB server
• Emil Sutovsky is European Internet Champion

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Emil Sutovsky's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
2. ↑ Emil Sutovsky's results at team world championships on olimpbase.org (English)
3. ↑ Emil Sutovsky's results at the European Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
4. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Emil Sutovsky's results at European Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)
5. ↑ Emil Sutovsky's results at Russian team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
6. ↑ Emil Sutovsky's results in the Premijer Liga on olimpbase.org (English)
7. ^ "Just Checking" quoted from: New In Chess Magazine , No. 3/2005, p. 106