Nikolay Minev

Nikolay Minev ( Bulgarian: Николай Николаев Минев , Nikolaj Nikolaew Minew; born November 8, 1931 in Russe , † March 10, 2017 in Seattle ) was an American chess master of Bulgarian origin.

Minev was awarded the title of International Master by FIDE in 1960 . He won the Bulgarian Championship in 1953, 1965 and 1966.

His last Elo rating was 2370, but he did not play a rated chess game after the 1999 US Open and was therefore listed as inactive. He reached his highest Elo number of 2455 in July 1971 and again in July 1973. Before the introduction of the Elo numbers Minev reached its highest historical Elo number of 2576 in October 1966. With the Bulgarian national team Minev took part in the Chess Olympiads in 1954 and 1956 , 1958 , 1960 , 1962 and 1966 and the European Team Championships in 1970 and 1977.

Minev was also active as a chess author, he wrote, among others, together with John Donaldson, a two-volume work on Akiba Rubinstein , along with Yasser Seirawan the book Take my rooks (1991, ISBN 1-87947-901-X ) via double rook sacrifice and French Defense: New and forgotten ideas (2nd edition 1998, ISBN 0-938650-92-0 ) on the French defense . He published more than 50 chess studies .

Tournament successes

• 1959 Sofia (Bulgarian Championship): 3rd – 4th space
• 1961 Warsaw: 2nd - 3rd space
• 1966 Parcetic Memorial: 1st – 2nd space

Web links

• Playable chess games by Nikolay Minev on chessgames.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Life & Career of Nikolay Minev on thechesslibrary.com (English)
2. ↑ King County deaths (0313/2017) on seattlepi.com (English)
3. ↑ Nikolay Minev's historical rating at chessmetrics.com (English)
4. ↑ Nikolay Minev's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
5. ↑ Nikolay Minev's results at European team championships on olimpbase.org (English)