Konstantin Rufovich Sakaev (russian: Константи́н Ру́фович Сака́ев; born 13 April 1974 in

Leningrad Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

) 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 ...

Grandmaster (1993), chess author and Russian champion in 1999. Sakaev is on the staff of the Grandmaster Chess School in St. Petersburg and has assisted Vladimir Kramnik and

Nana Ioseliani Nana Ioseliani ( ka, ნანა იოსელიანი; born 12 February 1962) is a Georgian chess player. She was awarded by FIDE the Woman Grandmaster title in 1980 and the International Master title in 1993. Already in 1978 she was ...

in preparing for

World Championship A world championship is generally an international competition open to elite competitors from around the world, representing their nations, and winning such an event will be considered the highest or near highest achievement in the sport, game, ...

Candidates' Matches.GMchess

Notable results

* Under-16 World Champion 1990 * USSR Youth Champion 1990"Lessons Learned"
Chessville, February 2004 * Leningrad Champion 1990 * U18 World Champion 1992 * Russian Champion 1999 * Olympic champion with the Russian team in 1998 and 2000 * 16th in the 2005 FIDE World Cup.2005 FIDE World Cup Results
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Konstantin Sakaev
chess games at 365Chess.com * 1974 births Living people Chess grandmasters Russian chess players World Youth Chess Champions Chess Olympiad competitors Russian chess writers Sportspeople from Saint Petersburg {{Russia-chess-bio-stub