Yuri Mikhailovich Yelissejew

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Juri Michailowitsch Jelissejew ( Russian Юрий Михайлович Елисеев ; at FIDE Urii Eliseev ; * July 29, 1996 in Moscow ; † November 26, 2016 there ) was a Russian chess player .

Life

Jelissejew learned to play chess during his school days. His first coaches were Vitaly Fetissov and Yevgeny Reshetnikov. He won the U16 Olympics with the Russian team in 2011 and 2012. In 2012 he became a Russian Under-16 Youth Champion and in the same age group Youth World Champion in Maribor . In the same year he was awarded the title of International Master (IM), he fulfilled the required standards in March 2011 at the IM tournament V. Dvorkovich in Moscow , in May 2011 at the World Youth Stars in Kirishi , in October 2011 at the Chigorin Memorial in Saint Petersburg and in February 2012 at the Moscow Open . The last IM standard was also considered the GM standard, and Yelissejew fulfilled other standards in November 2012 at the Chigorin Memorial in Saint Petersburg and in February 2013 at the Moscow Open , so that he was awarded the title of Grand Master (GM) in 2013 . In 2015, together with Ivan Bukavshin and Alexander Rachmanow, he won the “Governor's Cup” in Khanty-Mansiysk , a strong open tournament, as well as the Moscow championship.

He celebrated his greatest success with his victory at the very strong Moscow Open in February 2016, where he came first in front of players like Anton Korobow , Wladislaw Artemjew and Ernesto Inarkiev . At the Russian U20 youth championship of the same year he was tied for first with Kirill Alexejenko . His last tournament was the Chigorin Memorial in Saint Petersburg in October 2016, in which he scored 6.5 points from 9 games and thus missed the prize ranks. In November 2016, Yelissejew achieved his highest rating of 2614.

Jelissejew died after falling from the twelfth floor of a high-rise building. According to newspaper reports, he tried to get out of a window onto the balcony. According to various media reports, Jelissejew has repeatedly run as a parkour runner .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Трагически погиб гроссмейстер Юрий Елисеев (1996–2016) , accessed November 27, 2016 (Russian)
  2. Yuri Yelissejew's results at the U16 Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  3. IM application to FIDE (English)
  4. GM application to FIDE (English)
  5. В Москве погиб двадцатилетний гроссмейстер Юрий Елисеев , accessed November 27, 2016 (Russian)
  6. Подробности гибели шахматиста-экстремала: Елисеев часто повторял один трюк , accessed November 28, 2016 (Russian)
  7. Chess grandmaster, 20, falls to his death while doing parkour on his 12th floor balcony , accessed on April 19, 2018 (English)