Maxim Dlugy

Maxim Dlugy, Moscow 2012
Association	United States
Born	January 29, 1966 Moscow , Soviet Union
title	International Master (1982) Grand Master (1986)
Current  Elo rating	2513 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating	2570 (January 1989 and January 1991)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Maxim Dlugy (* 29. January 1966 in Moscow ) is an American grandmaster in chess .

Dlugy got to know the game of chess at the age of six under the influence of his grandfather and the Soviet pioneers . He received his first serious chess lessons at the age of 9 in a local chess club. Dlugy moved with his family to New York City in the spring of 1977 , where he became a member of the Manhattan Chess Club in 1978 and met his long-time trainer Vitaly Zaltsman.

In 1982 he received the title of International Master . In 1984 he finished high school, finished third in the American championship and became a professional chess player. In 1985 he won the Junior World Championship in Sharjah . A year later he received the title of grandmaster. In 1986 he played for the USA at the Chess Olympiad in Dubai and achieved third place on the second reserve board both with the team and in the individual ranking.

Further successes were

• 1985: 2nd place in New York
• 1986: 2nd place in Clichy
• 1987: 3rd place in the US championship
• 1987: 1st place in Las Vegas
• 1988: 1st place in the World Open Philadelphia

He is an excellent blitz chess player and was number one on the World Blitz Chess Association's rankings between 1988 and 1993 .

From 1990 to 1993 Dlugy was President of the US Chess Federation USCF .

From 1990 to 1991 he was one of the chess advisors of the Deep Blue project. He then worked as a trader for the Bankers Trust Company of New York , and from 1995 as a fund manager for the Trans-National Research Corporation . He is currently managing director of the investment firm Optim Advisors .

In April 2005, Dlugy was arrested on suspicion of breach of trust as chairman of the board of a Russian metalworking plant in Perm , but acquitted in December for lack of evidence.

In the 2000s he had only played one Elo-rated tournament, but has been more active in chess since then. In 2015, he played for the Connecticut Dreadnoughts team in the United States Chess League .

Web links

• Website of Maxim Dlugy (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Interview with Maxim Dlugy in New In Chess 4/1987.
2. ↑ Maxim Dlugy's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
3. ↑ Optim Advisors ( Memento from February 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (English)