Vitaly Kunin

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Vitaly Kunin, Mitropapokal 2019
Association RussiaRussia Russia (until 2002) Germany (since 2002)
GermanyGermany 
Born October 2, 1983
Moscow
title International Master (2002)
Grand Master (2006)
Current  Elo rating 2566 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating 2595 (May and September 2016)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Vitaly Kunin ( Russian Виталий Леонидович Кунин ; born October 2, 1983 in Moscow ) is a German chess grandmaster and trainer of Russian origin. In 2002 he moved to the German Chess Federation .

Life

He learned to play chess at the age of four. In autumn 2001 he and his family came from Moscow to Darmstadt . At that time he was FIDE Master .

In Germany he plays for the South Hessian chess club Freibauer Mörlenbach-Birkenau , company sport for the SK President Berlin . In the French national league 2 he played for Mundolsheim , in the Austrian 1st Bundesliga until 2011 for the Holz Dohr-Semriach syndicate , in the 2011/12 season for the Kufstein / Wörgl syndicate , in the 2013/14 and 2015/16 seasons for the Salzburg team SIR and in the 2019/20 for the SK Bregenz , in Luxembourg on the first board of the 1st team of Gambit Bonnevoie , with whom he was Luxembourg team champion in 2017 and 2020 , and in the Dutch master class from the 2011/12 season until the 2017/18 season for S. O. Rotterdam and since 2018 for En Passant Bunschoten-Spakenburg . From 2017 to 2019 Kunin played with SC Kirchberg in the Swiss Bundesliga .

successes

In February 2006 he was second behind Thomas Luther at the German individual championship in Osterburg (Altmark) . He won the Hessian individual championship in April 2005 in Offenbach am Main , in April 2006 in Marburg- Marbach and in March 2008 in Hanau- Großauheim . In February 2009 he won the 15th International Open in Lienz and in July of the same year the Heart of Finland tournament in Jyväskylä . In August 2010 he won the 25th Open in Schwarzach im Pongau and also won the following four editions of the Schwarzach Open. In September 2013 he won the 10th Eschborn Chess Open in Eschborn . Here he was the only player to win the tournament with five wins from five games. At the Zurich Christmas Open in December 2015, he came second behind Arkadij Naiditsch ; Vitaly Kunin won the tournament in December 2019.

In November 2002 he received the title of International Master , and since June 2006 he has held the title of Chess Grand Master . He achieved the standards for the GM title in January 2004 at the 4th GM tournament in Griesheim , in May 2004 at an international GM tournament in Moscow, in December 2005 at the 11th F. Pripis Memorial in Moscow and at the German individual championship 2006 in Osterburg (Altmark).

Others

Vitaly Kunin is a qualified linguist . He studied at a university in Moscow.

Web links

Commons : Vitaly Kunin  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ GM Kunin - SC Untergrombach. Retrieved June 19, 2019 .
  2. ↑ 1 IntTrierer chess Wocher October 2002 Germany FIDE Chess Tournament report. Retrieved June 20, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Chronicle of the Hessian Chess Congresses ( Memento of November 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) ( PDF ; 216 kB)
  4. ↑ Alexander Wolf: The year of records. Frankfurter Neue Presse , September 5, 2013, accessed on November 26, 2013 .
  5. ^ Result lists of the Zurich Christmas Open from 1998
  6. ↑ GM application to FIDE (English)
  7. ↑ Vitaly Kunin on ginco-ev.com
personal data
SURNAME Kunin, Vitaly
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Кунин, Виталий Леонидович (Russian); Kunin, Witali Leonidowitsch (German transcription)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chess grandmaster
DATE OF BIRTH October 2nd 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow