Ivan Alexandrovich Bukavshin (; 3 May 1995 – 12 January 2016) was a Russian

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player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by

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in 2011. Bukavshin was three-time European champion in his age category.

Chess career

Bukavshin won three gold medals at the European Youth Chess Championships, in the Under 12 section in 2006, the Under 14 in 2008 and the Under 16 in 2010. In 2013, he tied for 1st–11th places with Pavel Eljanov, Dmitry Kokarev, Alexander Areshchenko, Denis Khismatullin, Oleg Korneev, Dragan Šolak, Vadim Zvjaginsev, Sanan Sjugirov, Maxim Matlakov and Ildar Khairullin in the

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. In the following year, he tied for first with Ivan Ivanišević in the same tournament, but placed second on tiebreak, after both players finished on a score of 7½/9 points. Bukavshin won the Russian Junior (Under 21) Championship in 2015. In April 2015, he took clear third place at the Aeroflot Open in Moscow, behind Ian Nepomniachtchi and Daniil Dubov. Later that year, in July, Bukavshin tied for first with

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and Alexander Motylev, placing third on tiebreak, in the Russian Championship Higher League held in

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and earned the qualification for the Superfinal of the

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. In the latter he scored 5/11 points. At the Chess World Cup 2015, for which he qualified through the

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held in February–March of the same year, he was eliminated in the first round by Sergei Zhigalko after the

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tiebreakers. In December 2015 in

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, Bukavshin won first the 11th Ugra Governor's Cup, edging out Aleksandr Rakhmanov and Urii Eliseev on tiebreak, and then the Russian Cup knockout tournament, defeating Dmitry Kokarev in the final.

Death

Bukavshin died in

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on 12 January 2016 and was originally thought to have suffered a stroke, but it was later reported that it was a massive overdose (or poisoning) of No-Spa that caused his death.

References

External links

Ivan Bukavshin
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