Maxim Ilyich Sorokin

Maxim Iljitsch Sorokin ( Russian Максим Ильич Сорокин , scientific transliteration Maksim Ilʹič Sorokin ; born January 22, 1968 , † June 30, 2007 in Elista ) was a Russian chess player . Between 1998 and 2002 he represented Argentina internationally .

Life

Sorokin celebrated its first significant successes in the late 1980s. In 1989 he shared second place in Sochi , one year later he won the bronze medal in Minsk at the U26 championship of the USSR, the tournament of young Soviet champions . In 1991 he was third at the RSFSR championship. In the same year he won gold with the Soviet student national team at the student world championship in Maringá , Brazil , where he also won a gold medal for the best result on the fifth board. Also in 1991 he managed to split first place in Belgorod at the qualifying tournament for the last USSR championship in Moscow, in which he participated in the same year. 1992, the year in which he FIDE the Grandmaster title bestowed, he shared second place (including with Sergei Rubljowski ) in Ostrava , 1993, he won in San Fernando (along with ao Oscar Panno ) and was winner of the tournament in San Martín (inter alia Vasily Smyslow ). In 1996 he was in Villa Ballester second after Andrés Rodríguez Vila and shared fourth (with Yevgeny Bareev and Vadim Swjaginzew ) at the Russian championship in Elista . In 1997 Sorokin took first place in Villa Martelli and came second (after Pablo Ricardi ) at the Clarín tournament in Villa Gesell . He repeated the latter success the following year. In 1998 he made his debut at the Argentine championship and won the bronze medal, in the same year he won the Boca Juniors Open Tournament in Buenos Aires . Further triumphs followed in the next year: shared runner-up (with Alexei Drejew and Viktor Bologan ) at the Hanibal Open in Linares and Calcutta (with Sergei Dolmatow and Jaan Ehlvest ) and in Krasnodar (with Pawel Tregubow ).

In 2000 he was split first at the Mikhail Chigorin Memorial in Saint Petersburg and at the Commonwealth Championship in Sangli . In the following years his international success waned, but he completed a large number of tournaments in the extended top, such as E.g .: Calcutta (2001, 7½ / 11), Dubai (2002, 6/9), Saint Petersburg (2002, 6/9), Linares (2002, 6½ / 10), Bombay (2003, 7/10), Uralsk (2003, 7/10), Cappelle-la-Grande (2004, 6/9), Salekhard (2004, 7/9), Moscow (2005, Aeroflot Open , 6/9), Linares (2005, 6½ / 9) , Cappelle-la-Grande (2006 6/9), Tomsk (2006, 6/9), Chelyabinsk (2006, 6/9) and Nizhny Tagil (2007, 6/9).

In 1998 Sorokin took part in the Chess Olympiad in Elista for Argentina . He scored 6½ out of 13 on the first board. He was also registered for the first board in Argentina at the following Olympics, but he did not play a single game. At the Russian team championship he reached second place in 1992 with the team from Chorda Chelyabinsk , with whom he also took part in the European Club Cup 1993. He also took part in the Russian team championship twice with Politechnik Nizhny Tagil (2002 and 2007) and with Yunilain Samara (2005, 2006).

Sorokin died on June 30, 2007 in a hospital in Elista after he was seriously injured in a car accident on the way back from Elista to Volgograd . In Elista he was Sergei Rubljowskis second in his candidate fights for the 2007 World Chess Championship.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Maxim Sorokin's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
2. ↑ Maxim Sorokin's results at European Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)
3. ↑ Maxim Sorokin's results at Russian team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
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