Eugene Perelshteyn

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Eugene Perelshteyn (* as Evgeni Michailowitsch Perelschtein ( Russian Евгений Михайлович Перельштейн ) on February 2, 1980 in Zhytomyr , Ukrainian SSR ) is an American chess grandmaster of Soviet-Ukrainian origin.

Life

Perelshteyn began playing chess at the age of seven and took part in tournaments for the first time at the age of ten. His father, Mikhail Perelshteyn (* 1956), is a FIDE master and chess trainer . In 1994 they emigrated to the USA. Eugene Perelshteyn became a student of Roman Dzindzichashvili and also worked with Aleksander Wojtkiewicz . Perelshteyn took part in youth world championships in different age groups: 1996 (U16, 17th place), 1997 (U18, 10th place), 1998 (U18, 22nd place), 1999 (U20, 12th place) and 2000 (U20, 31st place). In 1997 Eugene Perelshteyn achieved the title of FIDE Master and in 2001 that of International Master . In 2000 he won the US Junior Championship with 7 points from 9 games and in 2001 received the Samford Chess Fellowship , a scholarship for young chess talents. In 2003 he won the New York Generation tournament ( category 10) and achieved a grandmaster standard with 6.5 points from 9 games. After two years as a professional chess player, he resumed his computer science studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County , graduating in 2004. He then worked as a technical support engineer at Symantec .

He also remained active as a chess player. The last required grandmaster norm he reached in 2006 with his shared 1st place at the Foxwoods Open . In 2007 he won the SPICE Cup in Lubbock (category 12) with 6.5 points from 9 games , came 4th at the 2008 state championship in Tulsa , and in 2009 he won the B group of the SPICE Cup (category 10) Ranking ahead of Vinay Bhat and Ben Finegold ), took 2nd place at the 49th Canadian Open 2012 and shared 1st place at the Golden State Open 2016.

In the United States Chess League he played for the Boston Blitz team from 2005 to 2015 and scored 20.5 points from 34 games.

He achieved his best Elo rating of 2555 in July 2008.

Chess author and trainer

Together with Lev Alburt and Roman Dzindzichashvili, he wrote two books on chess openings : Chess Openings for Black, Explained: A Complete Repertoire (2005, 2nd edition 2009, ISBN 978-1-889323-18-3 ) and Chess Openings for White, Explained : Winning with 1. e4 (2006, 2nd edition 2010, ISBN 978-1-889323-20-6 ). He operates a paid website, ChessOpeningsExplained.com, on which he offers the books for download in PGN format and provides updates. He is considered an expert in the accelerated dragon variant . He also offers instructional videos on the ichess.net website and, since August 2015, a paid mobile app Chess Genie with tactical tasks on Google Play .

Game example

Perelshteyn-Gledura
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7th Chess pdt45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess pdt45.svg Chess rlt45.svg Chess pdt45.svg 7th
6th Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess nlt45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess qlt45.svg 6th
5 Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess pdt45.svg Chess qdt45.svg Chess bdt45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg 5
4th Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess rdt45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg 4th
3 Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess pdt45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess rlt45.svg Chess plt45.svg 3
2 Chess plt45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess plt45.svg Chess klt45.svg 2
1 Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg 1
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End position after 35.Nf6

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Perelshteyn won the following game in March 2018 at the Open in Reykjavík , in which he came in fourth on the seeding list as number 24, against Hungarian grandmaster Benjámin Gledura .

Perelshteyn-Gledura 1-0
Reykjavík, March 13, 2018
Viennese part , C29
1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. f4 d5 4. fxe5 Nxe4 5. Qf3 Nxc3 6. bxc3 Be7 7. d4 c5 8. Bd3 cxd4 9. cxd4 Qa5 + 10. Bd2 Bb4 11. Rd1 Bxd2 + 12. Rxd2 Nc6 13. Ne2 Nb4 14. 0–0 0–0 15. Ng3 Qb6 16. c3 Nxd3 17. Rxd3 Qg6 18. h3 Bd7 19. Re3 Qg5 20. Nh5 Rac8 21. Nf4 Be6 22. Qf2 De7 23. Rg3 Kh8 24.Rf3 Rc7 25. Qg3 Rg8 26. Kh2 b5 27. De1 Rgc8 28. Rg3 Rc4 29.Rff3 b4 30.Nh5 bxc3 31.Rxg7 Rxd4 32.De3 Bg4 33. Qh6 Qxe5 + 34.Rg3 Bf5 35.Nf6 1: 0

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ United States Chess Federation - GM Eugene Perelshteyn
  2. ^ The US Chess Trust
  3. ↑ Jennifer Shahade : Eugene Wins Spice Cup , November 19, 2007.
  4. ↑ Victoria Chess Club / 49th Canadian Open Crosstable
  5. ↑ Golden State Open 2016 Standings "CCA Chess Tournaments
  6. ↑ Boston Blitz / GM Eugene Perelshteyn , uschessleague.com, August 2015.
  7. ↑ GAMMA Reykjavik Open 2018 , Chess-results.com, March 19, 2019.
  8. ↑ Video commentary by Eugene Perelshteyn , YouTube, August 13, 2018.

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personal data
SURNAME Perelshteyn, Eugene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American chess grandmaster of Soviet origin
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Zhytomyr , Ukrainian SSR