Igor Kurnosov (; 30 May 1985 – 8 August 2013) was a Russian
chess
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grandmaster.
Career
In 2004 he won the 8th Open International Bavarian Chess Championship in
Bad Wiessee
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edging out on tiebreak other five grandmasters.
Kurnosov took clear first place at the Arctic Chess Challenge in
Tromsø
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, Norway in 2008, 2008/9
Hastings Masters tournament and 2011
Politiken Cup in
Helsingør
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, Denmark. In 2010 he played in the
Russian Championship Superfinal, where he scored 5½/11 for a shared 7th–10th place. In December 2011, Kurnosov won the
Zurich Christmas Open
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by tiebreak over
Boris Grachev. In 2012, by winning the semi-finals in
Astana
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, he qualified for the
World Rapid Chess Championship
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final. In the same year he tied for 1st–3rd with
Sergei Movsesian
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and
Romain Edouard in the
Biel Masters Open winning the tournament on countback. In May 2013 he won the
Nakhchivan Open on tiebreak over
Aleksandr Shimanov and
Gadir Guseinov. Two months later, in July 2013, Kurnosov won the 20th
Abu Dhabi
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Chess Festival, edging out
Zahar Efimenko,
Mikhailo Oleksienko and
Avetik Grigoryan on tiebreak.
On the August 2013
FIDE rating list, Kurnosov ranked 84th in the world with a 2662
rating
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Kurnosov was hit and killed by a motorist on 8 August 2013 at 2:45 am in his home town
Chelyabinsk
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, aged 28.
Notable games
Igor Kurnosov vs Marat Dzhumaev, 2nd Agzamov Memorial 2008, Pirc Defense: Byrne Variation (B07), 1-0
Kurnosov defeated top seed
Shakhriyar Mamedyarov
Shahriyar Hamid oglu Mammadyarov (; born 12 April 1985), known internationally as Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, is an Azerbaijani chess grandmaster. he is Azerbaijan's highest rated chess player. His personal best rating of 2820 makes him the sixth-h ...
at the 2009
Aeroflot Open in Moscow in 21 moves. Mamedyarov filed a complaint of cheating following the game, but the complaint was dismissed.
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Shakhriyar Mamedyarov vs Igor Kurnosov, Aeroflot Open 2009, Neo-Grünfeld Defence: Goglidze Attack (D70), 0-1
References
Further reading
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External links
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Igor Kurnosov
chess games at 365Chess.com
Interview with Igor Kurnosov
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1985 births
2013 deaths
Chess Grandmasters
Pedestrian road incident deaths
Sportspeople from Chelyabinsk
Road incident deaths in Russia
20th-century Russian chess players