Valerij Sergeyevich Popov (born 10 September 1974) is a Russian

chess Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to dist ...

player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 1999. Popov won the championship of Saint Petersburg, his native city, in 2001 and 2006. In 2014 he shared first place with Denis Yevseev, who took the title on tiebreak score. Popov competed in the inaugural

FIDE World Cup The FIDE World Cup refers to three different events over the years. Since 2000, it has been a major chess event organized by FIDE, the International Chess Federation. Since 2005, it has been a 128-player single-elimination chess tournament, form ...

in 2005. Here he was knocked out by Alexander Onischuk in the first round by a score of ½–1½. In 2008, Popov finished second in the European

Rapid Chess Fast chess, also known as Speed chess, is a type of chess in which each player is given less time to consider their moves than normal tournament time controls allow. Fast chess is subdivided, by decreasing time controls, into rapid chess, bli ...

Championship in

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, Poland with a score of 10½/13 points. Ten years later, he took the gold medal in this championship in

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, Macedonia with the same score."Valerij Popov Wins European Rapid Championship"
''Russian Chess Federation''. 2018-12-09. Retrieved 2018-18-12.

External links

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Popov, Valerij
profile at Russian Chess Federation (in Russian)
Valerij Popov
chess games at 365Chess.com *

References

1974 births Living people Chess grandmasters Russian chess players Sportspeople from Saint Petersburg {{Russia-chess-bio-stub