Evgeny Tomashevsky

Evgeny Tomashevsky
Full name Evgeny Yurievich Tomashevsky
Country  Russia
Born (1987-07-01) July 1, 1987
Saratov, Russian SFSR, USSR
Title Grandmaster
FIDE rating 2716 (December 2016)
(No. 21 in the November 2015 FIDE World Rankings)
Peak rating 2758 (September 2015)

Evgeny Yurievich Tomashevsky (Russian: Евгений Юрьевич Томашевский; born 1 July 1987 in Saratov)[1] is a Russian chess Grandmaster.

Career

Tomashevsky won the Russian under-10 championship in 1997 and the Russian U18 championship in 2001, at the age of 13 years,[2] in Rybinsk with a score of 9.5 points from 11 games.[3] In 2004 he was the runner-up in the World U18 championship.[4]

In 2007, he came second in the Aeroflot Open.[5]

In 2009, Tomashevsky won the 10th European Individual Chess Championship after tie-breaks. The decisive match against Vladimir Malakhov went into armageddon stadium, where Malakhov blundered a rook in a winning position.[6]

He was a member of the gold medal winning Russian team at the World Team Chess Championship 2009 in Bursa.[7]

In 2011, he tied for first place with Nikita Vitiugov and Lê Quang Liêm in the Aeroflot Open, placing third on tiebreak.[8]

He was one of the seconds to Boris Gelfand for the World Chess Championship 2012.[9]

In February 2015, Tomashevsky took clear first place in the Tbilisi leg of the FIDE Grand Prix 2014–15 scoring 8/11, 1.5 points ahead of second-placed Dmitry Jakovenko, with no losses and wins over Baadur Jobava, Alexander Grischuk, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Rustam Kasimdzhanov.[10] His performance rating in this tournament was 2916.[11]

In August 2015, he won the Russian Championship Superfinal in Chita with 7.5/11.[12]

Partly for being a mostly positional player, partly for wearing glasses and being well-educated, Tomashevsky earned himself the nickname "Professor" among the chessplayers.[2]

References

  1. ↑ GM title application FIDE
  2. 1 2 Interview (2009) ChessBase
  3. ↑ Russian U18 Championship 2001: final standings after 11 rounds, chess.ufanet.ru
  4. ↑ World Youth Chess Championship 2004: Boys U18 GreekChess
  5. ↑ "Aeroflot Open 2007: Evgeny Alekseev wins in style". 2007-02-25. Retrieved 2015-08-20.
  6. ↑ "Tomashevsky wins EU Championship – by a hair's breadth". ChessBase. 2009-03-18. Retrieved 20 October 2015.
  7. ↑ Crawley, Gavin (2010-01-13). "Bursa: Russia wins Gold, USA Silver, India Bronze". ChessBase. Retrieved 4 May 2010.
  8. ↑ Crowther, Mark (2011-02-16). "Aeroflot Open 2011". The Week in Chess. Retrieved 2015-08-20.
  9. ↑ Doggers, Peter (2012-06-06). "Boris Gelfand: "I was by no means inferior in this match" (Interview, part 1 of 2)". ChessVibes. Retrieved 2015-09-01.
  10. ↑ "Tomashevsky wins Tbilisi Grand Prix - Closing Ceremony". FIDE. 2015-02-28. Retrieved 22 January 2016.
  11. ↑ Ramirez, Alejandro (2015-03-01). "Tbilisi Closing". ChessBase. Retrieved 22 January 2016.
  12. ↑ "Tomashevsky and Goryachkina Become Champions". Russian Chess federation. Retrieved 2015-08-20.

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