Nikita Kirillowitsch Vitjugow

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Nikita Vitjugov
Nikita Witjugow, Grenke Chess Open 2016
Surname Nikita Kirillowitsch Vitjugow
Association RussiaRussia Russia
Born February 4, 1987
Leningrad
title International Master (2006)
Grand Master (2007)
Current  Elo rating 2722 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating 2756 (November 2019)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Nikita Vitiugov ( Russian Никита Кириллович Витюгов , FIDE designation Nikita Vitiugov ; * 4. February 1987 in Leningrad ) is a Russian chess player . Since 2007 he has had the title of Grand Master .

Life

Vitjugow won the Russian Junior Championship U18 in 2005 and was runner-up in the U20 age group in the following two years. In July 2005 he defeated the American grandmaster Alexander Stripunsky 2-0 in an internet city competition between New York and Saint Petersburg . In July 2006 he won the Blue Sevan tournament in Armenia with 6.5 points from nine games. At the Junior World Championships in October 2006 in Yerevan he came in 2nd place. He took part in the Russian Championships in 2006 (11th place), 2007 and 2008 (5th place). At the 2007 European Championships in Dresden he came in 19th place with 7.5 points out of eleven games. In the blitz tournament at the Biel Chess Festival in 2007, he finished second behind Georg Meier . At the Chess World Cup 2007 in Khanty-Mansiysk he failed in the first round to Konstantin Sakajew . At the European Championships in 2008 in Plovdiv he came in 44th place with 7 points from eleven games.Vitjugov took part in the World Chess Cup six times ( 2007 , 2009 , 2011 , 2013 , 2015 and 2017 ). He was most successful in 2009 when he reached the round of 16 with victories against Abhijeet Gupta , Gilberto Milos and Konstantin Sakajew , in which he was defeated by Sergei Karjakin . In April 2017 he won the Grenke Chess Open in Karlsruhe ahead of Maxim Matlakow .

In 2006 Vitjugov was named International Master (IM). He had met the required standards in October 2003 at the St. Petersburg Open , in October 2004 at the Tschigorin Memorial in Saint Petersburg and in July 2005 at the U18 Youth World Cup in Belfort . In 2007, he was appointed Grand Master (GM). The IM norm from the Chigorin Memorial was also the GM norm, and Vitjugov met other GM norms in June 2006 at the FINEC Rector Cup in Saint Petersburg and in July 2006 at the Blue Sevan in Sevan . In 2010 he published a book on the French Defense ( The French Defense: A Complete Black Repertoire , ISBN 9548782766. ), Which was published in a revised edition in 2012 under the title French Defense Reloaded ( ISBN 9548782863. ).

Elo development

Elo development

National team

Vitjugov took part in the Chess Olympiads in 2010 (with Russia's second team) and 2018 , and achieved third place with the team in 2018. At team world championships he was part of the Russian selection in 2010, 2011, 2013, 2015 and 2017. With the team he won the World Team Championships in 2010 and 2013 and achieved second place in 2017, in the individual ranking he achieved the best individual result on the second reserve board in 2010, on the reserve board in 2011 and on the third board in 2017, and the third-best individual result on the reserve board in 2013. Vitjugov also took part in the European Team Championships in 2017 and 2019. He reached second place with the team in 2017 and won the individual ranking on the third board, in 2019 he was European team champion.

societies

In the Russian team championship Vitjugow played for the second team of Saint Petersburg in 2002 and 2003 , in 2004 and 2006 he was reserve player of the first team, since 2008 he has been a regular in the first team. He became the Russian team champion in 2013 and 2016. With Saint Petersburg, he has also participated in all eleven European Club Cup events since 2008 . In 2011 he won with the team and achieved the best individual result on the second board, in 2012 he achieved the second place with the team and third in the individual standings on the third board, in 2013 he achieved the second best result on the third board, and in 2015 he finished with the team took third place and achieved the second best result on the third board, in 2016 he reached second place both with the team and in the individual evaluation on the third board, and in 2018 he won both with the team and in the individual evaluation on board 2. In the In the German Bundesliga, Witjugow played for SV Wattenscheid from 2009 to 2013 , and in the 2016/17 season and again in the 2018/19 season he played for SV 1930 Hockenheim . In the Chinese team championship, Witjugow played for Zhejiang in 2009 and 2011, and for Hebei in 2012 . In the Czech extra league he played from 2009 to 2013 and since the 2014/15 season for 1. Novoborský ŠK , with whom he became Czech team champion in 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 and 2018 . The Spanish team championship won Witjugow 2018 with Sestao Bizkaialde .

Publications

Web links

Commons : Nikita Witjugow  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chess Masterminds 2005 ( Memento from November 18, 2010 in the web archive archive.today ) (English)
  2. ↑ Shen Yang and Zaven Andriasian World Junior Champions , ChessBase.com, October 17, 2006
  3. ↑ Evgeny Alekseev becomes the champion of Russia ( Memento of November 12, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), Russiachess.org
  4. ↑ Dramatic last round in the superfinals , Chessbase.de, October 16, 2008
  5. ↑ Blitz Chess Championship Biel
  6. ↑ World Chess Championship 2007 World Cup, Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia, XI-XII, 2007
  7. ↑ Final Ranking Plovdiv 08 ( Memento from April 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ Nikita Vitiugov wins GRENKE Chess Open 2017 report by Georgios Souleidis
  9. ↑ IM application to FIDE (English)
  10. ↑ GM application to FIDE (English)
  11. ↑ Numbers according to FIDE Elo lists. Data sources: fide.com (period since 2001), olimpbase.org (period 1971 to 2001)
  12. ↑ Nikita Witjugov's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  13. ↑ 43rd Olympiad Batumi 2018 Open team line-up with individual results - Open Russia. In: chess-results.com. October 5, 2018, accessed June 13, 2019 .
  14. ↑ Nikita Witjugov's results at the World Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  15. ↑ Nikita Witjugov's results at European team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  16. ↑ 22nd European Team Chess Championship 2019 Open team line-up with individual results Russia. In: chess-results.com. November 2, 2019, accessed November 15, 2019 .
  17. ↑ Nikita Vitjugov's results at Russian team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  18. ↑ Nikita Witjugow's results at European Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)
  19. ↑ 34th European Club Cup board list (final score after 7 rounds). In: chess-results.com. October 24, 2018, accessed June 13, 2019 .
  20. ↑ 34th European Club Cup team line-up with individual results Mednyi Vsadnik St.Petersburg. In: chess-results.com. October 24, 2018, accessed June 13, 2019 .
  21. ↑ Nikita Witjugov's results in the Czech Extraliga on olimpbase.org (English)
personal data
SURNAME Vitjugov, Nikita Kirillovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Витюгов, Никита Кириллович (Russian); Vitiugov, Nikita
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian chess player
DATE OF BIRTH 4th February 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Leningrad