Konstantin Rufowitsch Sakajew

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Konstantin Rufowitsch Sakajew ( Russian Константин Руфович Сакаев , scientific transliteration Konstantin Rufovič Sakaev ; born April 13, 1974 in Leningrad ) is a Russian chess master .

Career

In 1990 Sakayev became the youth world champion of the under 16-year-olds, 1992 the world champion of the under 18-year-olds and was awarded the title of grandmaster by the world chess federation FIDE the next year . In 1999 he won the Russian individual championship . Together with the Russian team, he was twice Olympic champion ( 1998 and 2000 ), at the 1994 Chess Olympiad he achieved third place with Russia's second team. At the 2001 World Team Championship he finished second with Russia and achieved the best individual result on the first reserve board. In 2001/2002 he was a participant in the FIDE World Championship ("knock-out" mode) in Moscow , where he failed in the third round to Yevgeny Bareev . At the 2007 European Championships in Dresden , Sakajew finished 1st – 7th with six other players tied. Rank. In the necessary playoffs for the European title he was defeated by the later second Emil Sutovsky and ended up sixth.

Sakayev won the Russian team championship in 1992, 2000 and 2001 with Saint Petersburg , 1995 with Novaya Sibir Novosibirsk and 2006 with Ural Oblast Sverdlovsk . He also played for TPS Saransk in Russia . Zakayev played in the German Chess Bundesliga in the 2003/04 season for Bremen Chess Society from 1877 and in the 2006/07 season for multiple team champion SG Porz . In the French team championship he played for Mulhouse Philidor from 2005 to 2007 . In Yugoslavia Sakajew played for the team Goša Smederevska Palanka , with whom he took part in the 1997 European Club Cup .

His Elo rating is 2594, which puts him in 239 position in the world rankings (as of November 2014). He had his highest Elo rating to date with 2677 in January 2005. He was last among the top 30 in the world rankings in April 2005.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Konstantin Sakajew's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  2. ↑ Konstantin Sakajew's results at the team world championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  3. ↑ Konstantin Sakajew's results at European Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)
personal data
SURNAME Sakayev, Konstantin Rufowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Сакаев, Константин Руфович (Russian); Sakaev, Konstantin Rufovič (scientific transliteration)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian chess master
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Leningrad