Sergei Leonidowitsch Kalinitschew

Sergei Kalinitschew in Berlin, 2008
Association	Soviet Union (until 1991) Russia (1992 to 1995) Germany (since 1996)
Born	February 3, 1956 Moscow
title	International Master (1989) Grand Master (1997)
Current  Elo rating	2434 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating	2533 (October 2004)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Sergei Leonidowitsch Kalinitschew (spelling for the World Chess Federation FIDE and the German Chess Federation : Sergey Kalinitschew ; Russian Сергей Леонидович Калиничев ; born February 3, 1956 in Moscow ) is a Russian chess player and coach. He has been eligible to play for the German Chess Federation since 1995, before he played first for the Soviet Union and then for Russia. He is also a strong backgammon player .

Life

His interest in playing chess was aroused by a chess book that an uncle gave to the ten year old. It was only at the age of 14 that he joined the chess department in the House of Pioneers in the city of Dzerzhinsky , a suburb of Moscow. Between 1974 and 1976 he did his military service in Khabarovsk . Afterwards - back in Moscow - he acted as head of the same chess department in which he had started to play organized chess. From 1982 to 1984 he joined the Moscow District Soviet Army as a chess player . There he accompanied Alexei Vyshmanavin , who won the Soviet individual championship in 1990 , and Andrei Kharitonov , who was international champion at the time and became a grandmaster in 1993 , as coach at the Soviet individual championship in 1984 in Lviv . The championship was of Andreï Sokolov won - Wyschmanawin ended up as 14th-seeded according to Elo rating on the ninth, Kharitonov in last place. Sergei Kalinitschew was stationed in Wünsdorf as a chess player and trainer with the group of the Soviet armed forces in Germany from 1984 . Sergei Kalinitschew's students as trainers in Germany after reunification included Dimitri Bunzmann , Atila Gajo Figura and Ilja Brener . Kalinitschew was married to the Estonian chess player Valeriya Gansvind, who bears the title of FIDE women 's champion (WFM) and won the German women's club championship with Lasker Steglitz in 1991/92 (under the name Waleria Kalinitschewa). His son Andrej, born in 1986, is also a strong chess player with an Elo rating of over 2400.

Successes in chess

In 1974 and 1975, Sergei Kalinitschew won the Red Army junior tournament, winning against Vladimir Jepishin , Gregory Kaidanov and Zigurds Lanka , among others . In the Soviet Union Kalinitschew took part in army championships, as well as (regularly until 1982) in the Moscow city championship and occasional tournaments. After 1984 he was a regular guest at individual tournaments in the GDR. There he won, for example, the 5th invitation tournament of the BSG Post Dresden in 1985 . In 1987 he won the master tournament of the Dresden Chess Festival . In 1989 he won tournaments in Rostock , Warsaw (with GM norm) and East Berlin .

In the 1990s he played many tournaments in West Germany. In 1993 he won the 1st Lichtenrader Spring . He won the Staufer Open in Schwäbisch Gmünd in 1995 and 1998. In 1996 he won a First Saturday GM tournament in Budapest , where he accompanied his student Dimitri Bunzmann. In 1997 he won the 2nd Four Seasons Open in Pentling , the Dreiflüsse Open in Passau and the Hermannen Open in Kassel .

In 2001 he won the individual championship of the Schleswig-Holstein chess association in Eckernförde .

In the 2000s he played tournaments mainly in Berlin . In 2000 he won the Kreuzberg Open for the first time , and in 2002 the Berlin Individual Championship and the Unicorn Open . In 2003 he won the 20th Travemuende Chess Open after missing the victory in 1999 (behind Aloyzas Kveinys ) and 2002 (behind Robert Rabiega ) in second place. At the German individual championship in 2004 in Höckendorf he finished fourth, at the open Dutch championship in Dieren , Gelderland in the same year behind Sergey Tiviakov, second place. In 2005 he won the 5th Gulweida-Warneyer memorial tournament , the Tempelhof chess club and the Lichtenrader Herbst . In 2007 he became the Berlin individual champion in rapid chess . In 2007 and 2008 he won the Lichtenberg Summer . In 2008 he also won the 9th Kreuzberg Open and the Memoriał Tadeusza Gniota in Police . In 2013 and 2015 he won the Berlin individual championship several times.

From 1979 to 1982 he was the player and coach of Torpedo Moscow . In the GDR he played club chess for Dynamo Potsdam from 1984 , together with Rustem Dautov and Heorhij Tymoschenko . After reunification, he first played for the Berlin club Lasker Steglitz , where he occupied the first board for ten years, then he went to Lübecker SV , with whom he played in the 1st Bundesliga in the 1999/2000 season . From 2001 to 2017 he played (interrupted by the 2009/10 season, in which he played in the 2nd Bundesliga for SK Zehlendorf ) for SC Kreuzberg (including from 2002 to 2009 in the 1st division). In the 2018/19 season, Kalinitschew is again active for Lübecker SV . In company chess, he won several Berlin and two German champions with Gillette Berlin .

In 1978, the same year as Garry Kasparov , Sergei Kalinitschew won the title of Master of Sports in the Soviet Union. In 1989 he became an international master. He has held the title of chess grandmaster since 1997. In October 2016, Kalinitschew won the German individual championship in Lübeck .

backgammon

In the German backgammon ranking from July 2015, he has an Elo rating of 1606.7 with an experience of 218, which puts him in 72nd place in Germany. In May 2005 he won the Berlin backgammon tournaments in Cafe Belmont in Tiergarten and in Friedenau . In April 2008 he won the Berlin Masters championship tournament .

Web links

Commons : Sergei Kalinichev  - collection of images

• Sergei Leonidowitsch Kalinitschew at the World Chess Federation FIDE (English)
• Replayable chess games by Sergei Leonidowitsch Kalinitschew on 365Chess.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 51st Championship of the USSR 1984 in chessgames.com (English)
2. ↑ Dresden chess tournaments 1892 to 1990 ( Memento of the original from June 8, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Results of the SK Zehlendorf in the 2009/10 season at the German Chess Federation
4. ^ Willy Iclicki: FIDE Golden book 1924-2002 . Euroadria, Slovenia, 2002, p. 101.
5. ^ Willy Iclicki: FIDE Golden book 1924-2002 . Euroadria, Slovenia, 2002, p. 83.
6. ↑ German alpha ranking backgammon from July 2015