Sergey Dmitrievich Ionov is a Russian

chess Chess is a board game for two players. It is an abstract strategy game that involves Perfect information, no hidden information and no elements of game of chance, chance. It is played on a square chessboard, board consisting of 64 squares arran ...

grandmaster.

Chess career

In April 1998, he finished fourth in the St. Petersburg Championship, and was one of a few players to end the tournament with a plus score. In January 1999, he played in Group B of the Hoogovens Wijk aan Zee Chess Tournament 1999. He went undefeated in the tournament and finished tied for third place. During the tournament, he defeated

Friso Nijboer Friso Nijboer (born May 26, 1965) is a Dutch chess player. He achieved the title of Grandmaster in 1996. Nijboer won the Vlissingen Chess Tournament in 2002 and 2005, and won the 3rd Nancy Chess Festival in 2005. He participated in six Chess ...

and held top seeds

Smbat Lputian Smbat Gariginovich Lputian (also Transliteration, transliterated as ''Lputyan''; ; born 14 February 1958) is an Armenian Grandmaster (chess), chess grandmaster. Chess career He was first at the tournament in Berlin in 1982, shared first place ...

and

Igor Glek Igor Vladimirovich Glek (; born 7 November 1961) is a Russian chess player, trainer, writer and theorist. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1990. Biography Glek was born in Moscow. Completing his University of Moscow engineeri ...

to draws. In April 2017, he played on the Russian 50+ team alongside

Alexander Khalifman Alexander Valeryevich Khalifman (; born 18 January 1966) is a Russian chess player and writer. Awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1990, he was FIDE World Chess Champion in 1999. Early life Alexander Khalifman was born in St Petersb ...

, Sergey Ivanov, and

Evgeniy Solozhenkin Evgeniy Solozhenkin (born July 31, 1966 in Saint Petersburg) is a Russian chess Grandmaster. Tournament results * 1986 : wins, at age 20, the 59th Leningrad championship * 1993 : wins the colossal Cappelle-la-Grande Open in France (416 player ...

in the World Senior Team Championship. In October 2022, he won the Russian Senior Rapid Championship with a score of 8/10, finishing ahead of

Yuri Balashov Yuri Sergeyevich Balashov (; born 12 March 1949) is a Russian chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1973. Chess career Born in Shadrinsk, Balashov was awarded the grandmaster title in 1973. Balashov was champion of ...

and Evgenij Kalegin.

References

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