Sanan Sjugirov (russian: Санан Сюгиров; born 31 January 1993) is a Russian chess grandmaster. He was European champion and world champion in his age category. Sjugirov competed in the

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and

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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 in Khanty-Mansiysk, 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 Warsaw. In 2012 he won the ''Casino de Barcelona'' round-robin tournament in Barcelona with a score of 7/9 points. In 2013, Sjugirov won the 29th

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on tiebreak scoring 7/9. In 2014 he won the Lev Polugaevsky Memorial in Samara on tiebreak over

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and the World University Chess Championship in Katowice. In the same year Sjugorv finished fourth in the strong

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, behind Yu Yangyi,

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and

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respectively. In August 2015, he won the

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tournament with a score of 9½/11. In October 2015, he won the 1st European Universities Chess Championship in Yerevan, helping his team USMU (

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) 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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, Ni Hua 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

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, taking second place on tiebreak.

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