Sanan Sjugirov (russian: Санан Сюгиров; born 31 January 1993) is a Russian

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grandmaster. He was European champion and world champion in his age category. Sjugirov competed in the

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in 2009 and 2015.

Chess career

Sjugirov won the World Youth Chess Championships in 2003, in the U-10 section, and 2007, in the U-14. In the

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s, he won in the U-12 division in 2004 and 2005, and in the U-14 in 2007. In 2008, Sjugirov won the Russian U-20 Championship and the First Saturday GM tournament of May in

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. In 2009 he qualified, through the Higher League, to the Superfinal of the

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, where he was the youngest participant. He scored 3 points from 9 games. Sjugirov played for team "Russia 4" on the first board at the

2010 Chess Olympiad The 39th Chess Olympiad (russian: 39-я Шахматная олимпиада, ''39-ya Shakhmatnaya olimpiada''), organised by FIDE and comprising an open and a women's tournament, as well as several other events designed to promote the game of ch ...

Khanty-Mansiysk Khanty-Mansiysk ( rus, Ха́нты-Манси́йск, Khánty-Mansíysk, lit. ''Khanty-Mansi Town''; Khanty: , ''Jomvoćś''; Mansi: , ''Abga'') is a city and the administrative center of Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug–Yugra, Russia. It stan ...

, where he defeated

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among others. Sjugirov tied for first with

Dmitry Andreikin Dmitry Vladimirovich Andreikin (russian: Дмитрий Владимирович Андрейкин, born 5 February 1990) is a Russian chess grandmaster, World Junior Chess Champion in 2010 and two-time Russian Chess Champion (2012 and 2018 ...

in the

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of 2010, placing second on tiebreak. Sjugirov won the silver medal at the 2011 European

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Championship in

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. In 2012 he won the ''Casino de Barcelona'' round-robin tournament in

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with a score of 7/9 points. In 2013, Sjugirov won the 29th

Cappelle-la-Grande Open The Cappelle-la-Grande Open is a chess tournament held every year in Cappelle-la-Grande, France, since 1985. It is usually played in the second half of February with an accelerated Swiss-system format in nine rounds. It is organized by the chess c ...

on tiebreak scoring 7/9. In 2014 he won the

Lev Polugaevsky Lev Abramovich Polugaevsky ( rus, Лев Абрамович Полугаевский, p=pəlʊɡɐˈjefskʲɪj; 20 November 1934 – 30 August 1995) was a Soviet chess player. He was awarded the title of International Grandmaster by FIDE in ...

Memorial in Samara on tiebreak over Alexey Goganov and the World University Chess Championship in Katowice. In the same year Sjugorv finished fourth in the strong Qatar Masters Open, behind Yu Yangyi, Anish Giri and Vladimir Kramnik respectively. In August 2015, he won the Abu Dhabi

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tournament with a score of 9½/11. In October 2015, he won the 1st European Universities Chess Championship in

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, helping his team USMU ( Ural State Mining University) to win the team gold medal. Two months later, he took part in the second edition of the Qatar Masters Open, where he tied for third place with Vladimir Kramnik,

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and Vassily Ivanchuk, finishing fifth on tiebreak. In March 2016, Sjugirov tied for 3rd–10th in the

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, placing fourth on tiebreak. The following year, he tied 1st–2nd with

Daniil Dubov Daniil Dmitrievich Dubov (russian: Даниил Дмитриевич Дубов; born 18 April 1996) is a Russian chess grandmaster. He achieved his final norm for the Grandmaster title at the age of 14 years, 11 months, 14 days in 2011. He i ...

in the Russian Higher League in Sochi, taking second place on tiebreak.

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