Valery Alexandrovich Loginov

Valery Alexandrovich Loginov ( Russian Валерий Александрович Логинов ; at the World Chess Federation FIDE Valery A. Loginov; born December 13, 1955 in Syzran ) is a Russian chess player .

Career

Valery Loginov graduated from the Leningrad Technological Institute for the Cellulose and Paper Industry. In 1978 he became national champion. He won the individual championship of the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic three times : 1976, 1982 and 1984. At the Khojayev memorial tournaments in 1980 in Olmaliq and 1983 in Tashkent , he came in second behind Yuri Anikayev and Yuri Shabanov.

1987 Loginow won a qualifying tournament in Pavlodar sovereign , where he could put opponents like Alexei Drejew , Yuri Dochojan, Alex Yermolinsky , Valery Chekhov and Alexander Nenaschew in the shade. Then he was allowed to compete in the Soviet championship (1st league) in Sverdlovsk in the same year . However, his performance ended in fiasco as he finished last in the table with a single win and eight losses.

After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Loginov first played for the Uzbek chess federation. He took part in the Chess Olympiads in Manila in 1992 and in Moscow in 1994 . Although his record on the first board in 1992 was more than modest, in the end it was enough for second place in the team ranking.

In the Russian team championship between 1995 and 2004 he took part a total of five times with the first and twice with the second team from Saint Petersburg and achieved third place in the team ranking four times (1995, 1998, 1999 and 2002). In 1991 he was appointed grandmaster by the World Chess Federation . According to his own information, he won around sixty tournaments in his career, including seven First Saturday Open tournaments in Budapest .

After staying in Hungary for several years , Loginow moved to Saint Petersburg. In 2000, 2004 and 2005 he won the Saint Petersburg City Championship. He is currently working as a youth coach and deputy chairman of the coaching board of the local chess association. He reached his highest Elo rating of 2610 in July 1994.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Valery Loginov's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English) (English)
2. ↑ Valeri Loginov's results at Russian team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
3. ^ Willy Iclicki: FIDE Golden book 1924-2002 . Euroadria, Slovenia, 2002, p. 81.

Web links

• Valeri Alexandrowitsch Loginow at the World Chess Federation FIDE (English)
• Replayable chess games by Valeri Alexandrowitsch Loginow on chessgames.com (English)
• Interview with Valery Loginov at e3e5.com (Russian)