Ivan Alexandrovich Bukavshin

Ivan Bukavshin, 2011
Surname	Ivan Bukavshin
Association	Russia
Born	May 3, 1995 Rostov-on-Don
Died	January 12, 2016 Tolyatti
title	International Master (2011) Grand Master (2011)
Best Elo rating	2658 (January 2016)

Ivan Bukavshin ( Russian Иван Александрович Букавшин ; at FIDE Ivan Bukavshin ; born May 3, 1995 in Rostov-on-Don ; † January 12, 2016 in Tolyatti ) was a Russian chess player .

Life

Bukavschin learned to play chess from his parents when he was four and a half years old and at the age of seven became a member of the local chess club "Slonjonok" in Rostov-on-Don. His great talent found early support and he was soon considered one of the greatest hopes in Russia. In 2005 he won the Russian national championship of the under 10-year-olds and reached the second place in the youth world championship of the same age group in Belfort , which was connected with the appointment as FIDE champion . The following year he won the European Championship for under 12-year-olds in Herceg Novi with 8 points from 9 games. He repeated this success in 2008 when he won the European championship for under 14-year-olds (7½ points from 9 games; also played in Herceg Novi), and again in 2010 when he became European youth champion for under 16-year-olds in Porto Carras (with 8½ points from 11 games). The following year he won the Chess Olympiad for under 16s in Akhisar with the Russian youth national team .

In 2011 he was named International Master in February and Grand Master (GM) in October . This year he achieved GM standards in Moscow (during the Moscow Open and Aeroflot Open ) and in Taganrog .

In 2014 he won together with Andrei Istrățescu in Nancy and was first at the Russian youth championship for under 20-year-olds (tied with Grigori Oparin ). In the same year he shared the victory at the World Student Championship in Katowice with Sanan Sjugirow and Karen H. Grigorjan . At the Chigorin Memorial in Saint Petersburg that year he shared first place with Ivan Ivanišević .

In 2015 he finished third behind Jan Nepomnjaschtschi and Daniil Dubow at the Aeroflot Open in Moscow . In the same year he won the Russian youth championship of the under 21-year-olds and qualified for the first time for the superfinal of the Russian championship by sharing first place (with Vladislav Artemjew and Alexander Motyljow , according to the rating Bukavschin was third) at the Russian highest league. About the European Championship 2015, held in Jerusalem , Bukavschin qualified for the Chess World Cup in Baku , where he was eliminated in the first round against Sjarhej Schyhalka .

After the European Championship, he took part in the final of the Russian championship, which was held in Chita . His score of 5 out of 11 against the best players in Russia was a huge success for him. At the end of the year he won two tournaments in Khanty-Mansiysk : first the “Governor's Cup” and then the Russian Cup championship, which is held in the KO system. In the final he defeated Dmitri Kokarew . His last tournament was the "Nutcracker Tournament" in December 2015 in Moscow, a team comparison in which a team made up of world elite players, including Vice World Champion Boris Gelfand and Péter Lékó , competed against the Russian youth national team.

However Bukawschin not died unexpectedly a few days later, on January 12, 2016, as initially reported at a stroke , but by an overdose (or poisoning) of the anticonvulsant drug "No-Schpa" which consists of the active ingredient drotaverine is made . At that time he was in a training camp in Tolyatti.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Russia's Chess Grandmaster Ivan Bukavshin dies, age 20 , accessed on January 22, 2016 (English)
2. ↑ Безмолвие. Безволие. Безразличие , accessed December 19, 2017 (Russian)

literature

• Jakov Geller: Grandmaster Ivan Bukavshin. A Chess Prodigy's Career in 64 Games . Elk and Ruby, Moscow 2020. ISBN 978-5-6041770-6-8 .

Web links

• Replayable chess games by Iwan Alexandrowitsch Bukavschin on 365Chess.com (English)