Andrei Lukin (, born August 28, 1948) is a

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International Master FIDE titles are awarded by the international chess governing body FIDE (''Fédération Internationale des Échecs'') for outstanding performance. The highest such title is Grandmaster (GM). Titles generally require a combination of Elo rating and ...

and a chess

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Chess career

He was one of the strongest junior chess players in the

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in the late 60s, qualified for the ''World Juniors'' in 1967 ahead of Karpov, Balashov and other very strong players, and was subsequently denied his shot at the title by the fact that the event was held in

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, which at the time was a no-fly zone for Soviet sportsmen. Since then his career failed to live up to the earlier promise, but he still became an International Master and won five Leningrad (Saint Petersburg) championships, which at the time were equal in strength to a national championship of an average European country, with many titled players taking part. Unlike majority of the other players of his level, he managed to combine his chess playing with a nine-to-five job as an engineer. Andrei went into coaching in the late 1980s and since then helped many young chess players in

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, leading

Konstantin Sakaev Konstantin Rufovich Sakaev (; born 13 April 1974 in Leningrad) is a Russian chess 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 K ...

to a World Junior title. In 1993 he started to work with

Peter Svidler Pyotr Veniaminovich Svidler (; born 17 June 1976), commonly known as Peter Svidler, is a Russian Grandmaster (chess), chess grandmaster and commentator who is an eight-time Russian Chess Champion. Svidler has competed in three World Championshi ...

, who credits him as the biggest influence in his career.

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