Zurab Asmaiparashvili

Zurab Asmaiparaschwili, 2015 in Vienna
Association	Georgia
Born	March 16, 1960 Tbilisi , Soviet Union
title	International Master (1984) Grand Master (1988)
Current  Elo rating	2637 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating	2702 (July 2003)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Zurab Asmaiparashvili ( Georgian ზურაბ აზმაიფარაშვილი ; born March 16, 1960 in Tbilisi ) is a Georgian chess master. He is vice-president of the world chess organization FIDE .

Life

He learned chess at the age of four and found sponsors and coaches at an early age. At the age of 13 he won the Georgian U18 youth championship , and a year later he took part in the Georgian adult championship. In 1978 he was USSR youth champion U18 and in 1979 was allowed to represent the Soviet Union at the European youth championship in Groningen .

In 1983 he qualified for the USSR championship in Moscow and achieved a spectacular victory over the then reigning world chess champion Anatoly Karpov . He won in Pavlodar in 1982, Moscow in 1986, Albena in 1986 and Tbilisi in 1986, but the travel conditions of the Soviet Union did not allow Asmaiparashvili to win championship titles early. It was not until the late perestroika phase in 1988 that he was awarded the title of Grand Master by FIDE .

In 1987 he was Sekundant of Garry Kasparov at his world title fight in Seville against Anatoly Karpov. Asmaiparaschwili assisted Kasparov in 1990. In 1989 he won the Lloyds Bank Open in London . In 2003 Asmaiparashvili became European champion in Istanbul . It came in the game against the later runner-up Wladimir Malachow, however, to an unusual incident when Asmaiparashvili accidentally made a gross mistake and his opponent illegally allowed him to take the move back. In 2004 Asmaiparashvili received the title of FIDE Senior Trainer.

Asmaiparashvili also worked as a chess official. He is now President of the Georgian Chess Federation and Vice-President of the World Chess Organization FIDE . At the closing ceremony for the 2004 Chess Olympiad in Calvià , he got into a fight with Spanish police officers and was temporarily taken into custody. He was released after protests by FIDE and the Spanish Chess Federation. During the competition for the 2006 World Chess Championship between Vladimir Kramnik and Wesselin Topalow , Asmaiparashvili was initially a member of the arbitration board. After protests against a decision by this body in favor of Topalov, which led to Kramnik not appearing in the fifth game of the competition, Asmaiparashvili resigned from this position.

He is listed as inactive at FIDE because he has not played an Elo-rated game since the ASEAN open championship held in Singapore in December 2010 . He was last among the top twenty in the FIDE world rankings in October 2003.

Team chess

National team

Asmaiparashvili took part with the Georgian team in the Chess Olympiads from 1992 to 2004 on the top board. At the 1998 Chess Olympiad in Elista , he achieved the best Elo performance of all players. He was also a member of the Georgian team at the 2005 World Team Championships and the 1997, 2003 and 2005 European Team Championships.

Club chess

Asmaiparaschwili took part in the European Club Cup nine times : 1994 to 1996 with the ŠK Bosna Sarajevo (which won the competition in 1994), 1999 to 2003 with the ŠK Kiseljak and 2005 with I&A Tbilisi . In 2005 he played in China for Wenzhou Law School .

Game example

Karpov-Azmaiparashvili

	a	b	c	d	e	f	G	H
8th									8th
7th									7th
6th									6th
5									5
4th									4th
3									3
2									2
1									1
	a	b	c	d	e	f	G	H

End position after 41 ... Rc4 +

Karpov-Asmaiparashvili 0: 1

USSR Championship, Moscow 1983

Pirc-Ufimzew Defense , B08

1. e4 d6 2. d4 g6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Nc3 Bg7 5. Be2 0–0 6. 0–0 Bg4 7. Be3 Nc6 8. Qd2 e5 9. d5 Ne7 10. Rad1 b5 !? 11. a3 a5 12. b4 axb4 13. axb4 Ra3 14. Bg5 Rxc3 15. Bxf6 Bxf3 16. Bxf3 Ra3 17. Bxg7 Kxg7 18. Ra1 Qa8 19. Rxa3 Qxa3 20. Be2 Qb2 21. Rd1 f5 22. exf5 Nxf5 23. c3 Qxd2 24.Rxd2 Ta8 25. Bxb5 Ta3 26.Rc2 Ne7 27.f4 exf4 28. Bc6 Nf5 29. Kf2 Ne3 30. Rc1 Kf6 31. g3 Ke5 32. Kf3 g5 33. gxf4 + gxf4 34. h4 Nxd5 35. Bxd5 Kxd5 36. Kxf4 Kc4 37. Re1 Rxc3 38. Re7 Kxb4 39. Rxh7 d5 40. Ke5 c6 41. Kd4 Rc4 + 0: 1

Web links

Commons : Zurab Asmaiparashvili  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Asmaiparaschwilis brawl ChessBase documented (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Zurab Asmaiparaschwili's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
2. ↑ Zurab Asmaiparaschwili's results at the team world championships on olimpbase.org (English)
3. ↑ Zurab Asmaiparashvili's results at European Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)