Vladimir Viktorovich Yepishin

Vladimir Jepischin, Utrecht 2007
Association	Soviet Union (until 1991) Russia (1992 to 2000, since 2001) Germany (2000)
Born	July 11, 1965 Leningrad , Soviet Union
title	International Master (1989) Grand Master (1990)
Current  Elo rating	2527 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating	2675 (January 1994)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Vladimir Viktorovich Jepischin ( Russian Владимир Викторович Епишин ; born July 11, 1965 in Leningrad ) is a Russian chess player.

Career

He was one of Anatoly Karpov's seconds from 1987 to 1996, but also has some successes to show for himself. Such was his highest Elo rating of 2675 in the 1994th

The grandmaster (he received the title in 1990) was able to record considerable successes in important chess tournaments . In 1990 he finished second in New York behind Alexander Chalifman , and in Brno he shared the tournament victory with five other players. In Vienna a second place followed behind Larry Christiansen , with whom he also reached second place in Ter Apel (behind Rafael Vaganian ) in 1992 . In Madrid, Jepishin only had to give way to Anatoly Karpov that year. In the following years he achieved several - sometimes divided - second and third places, before he won another tournament in Brno in 1993, this time together with Alexei Drejew . In 1993 he won another tournament in Burgas.

At the turn of the year 1994/95 he achieved his last great success when he shared the tournament victory with Yuri Rasuwajew and Alexei Drejew in Reggio nell'Emilia . Since that time he has achieved numerous tournament victories or top places, but these tournaments no longer had such strong participants. He has developed into a typical open specialist. Jepischin won the Schloss Open of the Werther chess club five times alone, and three times in a row from 2000 to 2002.

Vladimir Jepischin - Alexander Beliavsky, German Chess League on October 10, 1999

In the second half of 2000, Jepischin was registered for the German Chess Federation .

In the German federal chess league Jepischin played in the 1997/98 season for SV Empor Berlin , from 1998 to 2000 for PSV Duisburg, from 2000 to 2003 for Lübeck SV , with whom he was German team champion in 2001 , 2002 and 2003 , and in of the 2019/20 season for SV Lingen . For Lübeck and Lingen he was also active in the 2nd Bundesliga .

Jepischin also played in the Russian team championship (for Saint Petersburg) and the Czech extra league (for the ŠK Lokomotiva MONING Brno, with which he became Czech team champion in 1995 ).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Willy Iclicki: FIDE Golden book 1924-2002 . Euroadria, Slovenia, 2002, p. 80.
2. ↑ History of the Wertheraner Castle Open
3. ↑ Elo history up to 2001 at olimpbase.org (English)
4. ↑ Vladimir Jepishin's results at Russian team championships on olimpbase.org (English)

Web links

Commons : Vladimir Viktorovich Jepischin  - Collection of images

• Replayable chess games by Vladimir Viktorovich Jepischin on chessgames.com (English)
• Wladimir Viktorovich Jepischin at the World Chess Federation FIDE (English)