Mikhail Viktorovich Saizew

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Michail Zaitsev 4.jpg
Mikhail Saizew, Schwelm 2014
Association RussiaRussia Russia
Born September 10, 1971
Leningrad
title International champion (2005)
Current  Elo rating 2417 (September 2020)
Best Elo rating 2515 (September 2012 to April 2013)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Mikhail Wiktorowitsch Saizew ( Russian Михаил Викторович Зайцев , at the World Chess Federation FIDE and the German Chess Federation : Mikhail Zaitsev ; born September 10, 1971 in Leningrad ) is a Russian chess player with the rank of International Master .

Life

Mikhail Saizew grew up in Leningrad. He attended school number 181 there, followed by the Petri School as a secondary school and then the science lyceum number 239 (formerly Annenschule ). He studied computer science at the St. Petersburg State Electrotechnical University (LTU). He attended the chess school in the Pionierpalast, where he trained with Gata Kamsky, for example .

In 1996 Saizew moved to Germany.

successes

For the finals of the Leningrad City Championship, he qualified twice. In Austria he won the Open 3 of the chess festival 1000 Years of Austria in 1996 in the Vienna City Hall . In Germany he won several tournaments, for example the 2nd Rhein-Main Open in Frankfurt am Main in 1999 and the 1st Chess Days in Krefeld . In 2006 he won the 13th Großenbaumer Whitsun in Duisburg ahead of Gerlef Meins . He won the Sparkassen Open in Witten in 2006, 2010, 2012, 2015 and 2016. Saizew won the A-Open at the Dortmund Chess Days in 2008, 2011 and 2012. In 2012 and 2018 he won the Recklinghausen Chess Week , and in 2015 he won the Oer-Erkenschwick NRW- Masters in rapid chess .

In 2013 he won the 2nd German championship in Chess960- Schnellschach in Waldbronn ahead of Klaus Bischoff and Vitaly Kunin .

Mikhail Saizew plays club chess in Germany on the top board of the Bochumer SV 02 . Before that he played since the 2004/05 season for SG Bochum 31 , in the 1990s for two years for SV Lethmathe and Preetzer TSV , in 2000/01 for SF Dortmund-Brackel and from 2001 to 2004 for SV Turm Bergheim . He won the Belgian team championship three times: 2003/04 , 2009/10 and 2010/11 with KSK 47 Eynatten . In the Interclubs 2011/12 he played in the highest Belgian league for La Tour d'Ans-Loncin . In France he played for the Club d'Échecs Metz Fischer .

Saizew has held the title of International Master since February 2005. He achieved the norms for this in the Oberliga Nordrhein-Westfalen in the 2002/03 season, the 6th Info Score championship tournament in July 2003 in Baden-Baden with overachievement and in the German 2nd Bundesliga West in the 2003/04 season.

Web links

Commons : Mikhail Saizew  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Winner list of the Rhein-Main Open since 1998
  2. ↑ Title holder of the Sparkassen Open ( PDF ; 12 kB)
  3. ↑ 39th International Dortmund Chess Days, Sparkassen Open 2011 on Schachfreunde Brackel (with picture)
  4. ↑ Final result: 2nd German Championship in Chess960 rapid chess 2013
  5. ↑ IM application (English)
personal data
SURNAME Saizew, Mikhail Viktorovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Зайцев, Михаил Викторович (Russian); Zaitsev, Mikhail (FIDE, DSB); Zaitsev, Mikhail V.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian chess player
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Leningrad