Nikolai Michailowitsch Mishuchkov

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Nikolai Michailowitsch Mischutschkow ( Russian: Николай Михайлович Мишучков , with the World Chess Federation FIDE Nikolai M. Mishuchkov ; born February 28, 1946 in Wolchow ) is a Russian chess player .

Life

Mishuchkov began playing chess when he was eleven. In 1960 he won the Wolchower City Championship for the first time. After the qualifying tournament for the Russian youth championship in Kaspijsk in 1964, he was a candidate for championship. In the same year he won the final with 9 points out of 10, which was held in Vladimir . The then still very young Anatoli Karpow finished third in this tournament. After graduating from school, Mishuchkov graduated from the Leningrad Military-Mechanical Institute.

In the youth championship of the Soviet armed forces in Moscow in 1966 , which was won by Alvis Vitolinš, he took third place. In 1973 he shared fifth place with Igor Ivanov at the Leningrad City Championship . In the last round he drew a game with the winner Mark Taimanow and with 8 points out of 14 he fulfilled the norm for the title of Master of Sports of the USSR . In 1978 Mishuchkov triumphed with the selection of Leningrad Oblast in the Spartakiad of the Peoples of the RSFSR in Krasnodar , he himself finished tenth in the individual ranking. In September 1978 he played at an international tournament in Primorsko and finished third with 9.5 points out of 15, and he missed the norm of an international champion by half a point.

Only at an advanced age did he regularly play chess again. Several times he reached top places in the Russian senior championships . In 2009 he was third behind Vitali Zeschkowski and Alexander Filippenko in Lesnoi Gorodok. At that time, Mishuchkov was working as a specialist in the department for civil protection and exceptional situations at the Volkhov hydropower plant. In April 2011, he won silver in Courmayeur's European senior championship in rapid chess . The next month he won the European Senior Team Championship in Thessaloniki with the Russian selection, which he repeated in 2012 in Rogaška Slatina , 2015 (with Saint Petersburg) in Vienna and 2016 (65+) in Chalkidiki . He won the senior team championship (over 65 years of age) with Saint Petersburg in Vilnius in 2014 and with Russia in Dresden in 2015 . In 2011 he became international champion, and he achieved the necessary standards at the 2010 Chigorin Memorial Tournament in Saint Petersburg, the Chess Summer 2011 Festival in Olomouc and the X. Georgiev-Kesarovski Memorial Tournament 2011 in Sunny Beach .

His Elo rating is 2307 (as of October 2016), his highest rating of 2435 he reached in March 2012.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. IM application to FIDE (English; PDF , 289 kB)