Michael Prusikin

Michael Prusikin, 2013
Association	Germany
Born	January 19, 1978 Kharkov
title	International Master (1998) Grand Master (2004)
Current  Elo rating	2549 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating	2571 (January 2007)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Michael Prusikin (born January 19, 1978 in Charkow , Soviet Union ) is a German chess grandmaster (GM) of Ukrainian origin.

Tournament player

Prusikin learned to play chess at the age of five in his hometown. His talent was encouraged early on and he developed into a good player, although he did not have any outstanding successes. In 1995 he came to Germany as a quota refugee with his mother and stepfather . There he joined a chess club and earned his first Elo rating .

In 1998 he was awarded the title of International Master (IM).

In 1999 he won the Young Masters tournament in Zug, Switzerland. In 2000 Prusikin became Bavarian champion and took part in the German championship for the first time, where he took fourth place. After completing his training as an educator , Prusikin decided in early 2004 to become a chess professional . In the same year he reached the grandmaster title, he had met the standards in the 2nd Bundesliga 2000/01, at a GM tournament in Griesheim in January 2003 and at a GM tournament in Miskolc in March 2004. In 2005 he came in ninth place at the German Individual Championship and was a member of the German national team at the Mitropa Cup . In total, Prusikin took part in the Mitropacup six times and won it in Merlimont in 2011 . In 2006 later he achieved the shared 1st to 3rd place at the third Franconian Grand Masters days.

Michael Prusikin, 2008

In February 2015 it was ranked 30th in the German ranking.

Chess clubs

From 1997 Prusikin played for SC Forchheim for six years in the 2nd Bundesliga and in the 2002/03 season in the 1st Bundesliga . From 2006 to 2008 he played with TSV Bindlach in the 1st division, after its withdrawal from the 1st division he returned to SC Forchheim, with whom he played another season in the 1st Bundesliga in the 2012/13 season. Prusikin has been playing for BCA Augsburg since the 2017/18 season , initially in the 2nd Bundesliga, and since the 2018/19 season in the 1st Bundesliga.

In the Swiss National League A and National League B, Prusikin has been playing for SV Wollishofen since 2002 , with whom he also took part in the European Club Cup in 2006 . In the Swiss Bundesliga he played in 2004 for Wollishofen, from 2006 to 2012 for Valais, with whom he became champions in 2010 and 2011 , from 2012 to 2015 for SC Lyss-Seeland and since 2015 again for Wollishofen. In the Austrian Bundesliga , Prusikin played for the Salzburg team SIR Bernhard Glatz from 2010 to 2018. At the 2008 Chess Olympiad he played on board 2 of the 3rd team of the German Chess Federation.

Chess coach

Prusikin also works as a chess trainer. His most successful students were and are Dieter Lutz, who became Bavarian men's champion in 2007 at the age of 18, Léon Mons , German youth champion and at the age of 17 already a Bundesliga player, Hanna Marie Klek , multiple German youth champion, runner-up U16 2011 and German Women's champion 2013 as well as Jana Schneider , multiple German youth champion and German women's champion 2017. Since the 2009/10 season he has headed the D4 youth team of the BSJ (Bavarian Chess Youth).

In 2012 he was named Trainer of the Year by the German Chess Federation.

Starting with issue 11/2017, Prusikin took over the supervision of the section "Chess teaches chess - high school of combination" in the magazine "Schach" . He is the successor to Berthold Koch , Kurt Richter , Werner Golz and Albin Pötzsch .

Chess composition

Michael Prusikin has been composing Studien since 1996 .

Michael Prusikin
chess , 2005, 2nd praise

	a	b	c	d	e	f	G	H
8th									8th
7th									7th
6th									6th
5									5
4th									4th
3									3
2									2
1									1
	a	b	c	d	e	f	G	H

White to move wins

After the inevitable loss of one of the white minor pieces, the endgame would be a draw if the bad position of the black pieces did not allow a decisive attack.

Solution:
  1. Nd3 +! Kxa4
  2. Kc3 with mate attack after Nb2 + and Rxa5 + Ra3 +
  3. Kc4 Ra2 4. Re3 decides on 3.… Ra1! Ka3 5. Nb4 + etc.
  4. Nc5 + Ka3
  5. Re3 + Kb2
  6. Nd3 + Kc2
  7. Re2 + Kb1
  8. Re1 + Kc2
  9. Rc1 + Kd2
10. Kb3 The rook is trapped .

Web links

Commons : Michael Prusikin  - Collection of Images

• Homepage of Michael Prusikin ( Memento from August 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ GM application to FIDE (English)
2. ↑ Michael Prusikin's results at Mitropacups on olimpbase.org (English)
3. ↑ Michael Prusikin's results at European Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)
4. ↑ Michael Prusikin's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
5. ↑ Trainer of the Year 2012 - German Chess Federation. Retrieved April 11, 2017 .