Sergey Tiviakov

Sergey Tiviakov, Bad Wörishofen 2011
Association	Soviet Union (until 1991) Russia (1992 to 1999) Netherlands (since 2000)
Born	February 14, 1973 Krasnodar
title	International Master (1990) Grand Master (1991)
Current  Elo rating	2606 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating	2699 (October 2005)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Sergey Tiviakov (formerly Russian Сергей Тивяков , German transcription: Sergei Tiwjakow , scientific transliteration Sergej Tivjakov ; born February 14, 1973 in Krasnodar ) is a Dutch world-class chess player of Russian origin.

Life

Tiviakov learned chess when he was five. From 1980 to 1984 he was a student at the chess school of Vasily Smyslow . In 1989 he began a professional playing career and won the U16 youth world championship in Aguadilla that same year . In 1990 he became youth world champion in the U18 category in Singapore , ahead of Wladimir Kramnik and Peter Heine Nielsen . At the U20 World Cup in 1991 in Mamaia , he finished third. In 1990 Tiviakov was named International Master , and in 1991 FIDE awarded him the title of Grand Master . 1993 won Tiviakov in Rostov-on-Don and qualified in the same year in Groningen for the candidates fighting the PCA , but eliminated in the quarter-finals in 1994 in New York against the British Michael Adams with 6.5: 7.5 (after rapid chess stinging, 4: 4 after tournament games). In 1994 he finished second in Wijk aan Zee . In 1995 he completed his economics studies in Krasnodar and moved to the Netherlands (Groningen) in 1997.

In 1998 he won together with Vadim Milov in Groningen, a year later he won the Bunratty International Chess Festival in Ireland . At the national championship of the Netherlands he finished second with Daniël Stellwagen in 2005 , in 2006 he won with 9 points from 11 games, in 2007 he was again Dutch champion, this time after a direct comparison, tied with Stellwagen. In 2008 he won the European Championship in Plovdiv . In February 2009 he won the 2nd Palatinate Open in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse with 7.5 points from 9 games. In July 2018 he won the national championship of the Netherlands for the third time.

Tiviakov is known for its solid positional style. From 2004 to 2005 he played 110 games with classic cooling time without a single defeat . He was last among the top 20 in the world in October 2005.

National team

Tiviakov won the 1994 Chess Olympiad with the Russian national team and participated in the 2000 , 2002 , 2004 , 2006 and 2014 Chess Olympiads with the Netherlands . With the Netherlands he also took part in the 2013 team chess championship and the European team championships in 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005 and 2007. With the team he was European champion in 2001 and 2005, and in 2001 he also achieved the best result on the third board.

societies

In the Dutch Meester class , Tiviakov has played occasionally for the Schaakclub Groningen since 1997 , with which he became Dutch team champion in 2007 . In the Russian team championship Tiviakov played for Saint Petersburg in 2006 , in 2007 for the team of Ekonomist-1 Saratov , with whom he also took part in the European Club Cup in the same year , and in 2009 for the master Tomsk-400 , with whom he competed in the same year European Club Cup participated. In the German 1st Bundesliga Tiviakov played for the SK Turm Emsdetten in the 2002/03 season and for the Eppingen chess club from 2007 to 2014 . He won the British Four Nations Chess League in 2006 with Wood Green and in 2011 with Pride and Prejudice , in Hungary he played from 2007 to 2009 for Csuti Antal SK Zalaegerszeg , with whom he became champion in 2008 . In the Spanish team championship in 2004 and 2007 Tiviakov played for the team of CA Intel-Tiendas UPI Mancha Real , with which he became champion in 2004 , in 2006 for CA AMD-Cofimán Mancha Real .

Tiviakov also played in France for Club de Chess 15 Paris , in Belgium for Boey Temse and Cercle d'Échecs Fontainois , in Macedonia for SK Alkaloid Skopje , with whom he took part twice in the European Club Cup, in Yugoslavia for Agrouniversal Zemun , with which he reached second place at the European Club Cup in 1999, in Lithuania in 2014 for ŠK Margiris Kaunas and in Egypt for the team of the Eastern Company Al-Sharkia , with which he won the Arab Club Championship in 2006.

Chess coach

At ChessBase he published numerous instructional videos, including about the Maroczy system and the Alapin variant of the Sicilian Defense .

Tiviakov has worked as a trainer in several countries: Russia, the Netherlands, Turkey, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Turkmenistan, Colombia and Iran. His students include Jan Werle and Jorden van Foreest .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Thomas Koch : Great success at the Youth World Cup in Singapore . JugendSchach issue 5/1990, pp. 3–5. (Report, tables and games)
2. ↑ Michael Bezold and Caroline Claus: U20 World Cup with ups and downs . JugendSchach edition 9/1991, pp. 6-8. (Report, tables and games)
3. ↑ 61st FIDE congress in Schachinformator 50, p. 382.
4. ^ Willy Iclicki: FIDE Golden book 1924-2002 . Euroadria, Slovenia, 2002, p. 80.
5. ↑ Sergey Tiviakov's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
6. ↑ Sergey Tiviakov's results at the World Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
7. ↑ Sergey Tiviakov's results at the European Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
8. ↑ ^{a b c d} Sergey Tiviakov's results at European Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)
9. ↑ Sergey Tiviakov's results at Russian team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
10. ↑ Sergey Tiviakov's results at Spanish team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
11. ↑ LŠL 2014
12. ↑ Sergey Tiviakov's results at Arab club championships on olimpbase.org (English)

Web links

Commons : Sergey Tiviakov  - collection of images

• Interview with Sergey Tiviakov , Chessbase, July 12, 2018
• Literature by and about Sergey Tiviakov in the catalog of the German National Library