Alexander Evgenyevich Baburin (, ''Aleksandr Yevgen'yevich Baburin''; born 19 February 1967) is a Russian-Irish
grandmaster of chess. He was born in
Gorky, and has been living in
Dublin, Ireland since 1993.
He is editor-in-chief of the e-mail distributed chess newspaper
Chess Today and is a coach and author.
Chess career
Baburin became
Irish champion in 2008, the first year in which he entered the competition. He cited past comments from fellow Irish players as the reason he had not entered previously. His participation in the Irish Olympiad team has generated some controversy, being non-native Irish. Baburin is known for giving talks about chess at many venues throughout Ireland. Baburin is currently Ireland's only chess grandmaster, a title he earned in 1996. Baburin is on the Irish chess team, the highest-ranked member. One of Baburin's most famous victories is against
Veselin Topalov in a four on one
simultaneous exhibition.
In March 2022, Baburin won the John Bolger Cup in
Dublin, edging out
Vladyslav Larkin
Vladyslav ( uk, Владисла́в, Vladysláv ) or Volodyslav ( uk, Володисла́в, Volodysláv {{IPA, /wɔlɔdɪˈslɑu̯/) is a Ukrainian given name for males. The female variant is the same with the addition of 'a' at the end.
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Jacob Flynn
Jacob (; ; ar, يَعْقُوب, Yaʿqūb; gr, Ἰακώβ, Iakṓb), later given the name Israel, is regarded as a patriarch of the Israelites and is an important figure in Abrahamic religions, such as Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Jac ...
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References
External links
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Baburin's page at Grandmaster Square
Chess Today
1967 births
Living people
Chess grandmasters
Chess Olympiad competitors
Russian chess players
Irish chess players
Irish writers
Russian chess writers
Sportspeople from Nizhny Novgorod
Russian emigrants to Ireland
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