Maxim Turov (; born 7 December 1979) is a Russian

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player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by

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in 1999. Turov participated in the 1st Children's Chess Olympiad, held in Linares in 1993, as part of Russia "A" team, which won the gold medal. In 2005 and 2011 he won the Open Dutch Championship in

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. In 2009, he tied for 1st–2nd with Alexander Lastin in the Doroshkevich Memorial, shared first with Marius Manolache in the International Chess Festival

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, won the 9th Nordhausen Open and the 25th Faaker See Open. In 2010, he won the

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Open, tied for 1st–4th with

Sergei Zhigalko Sergei Zhigalko ( be, Сяргей Жыгалка, ''Syarheĭ Zhyhalka''; born March 28, 1989) is a Belarusian chess player who holds the FIDE title of Grandmaster. He is a three-time national champion and also a European and world champion in ...

, Rinat Jumabayev and

Vitali Golod Vitali Matveyevich Golod (; born 23 June 1971) is a Soviet-born Israeli chess player. He holds the title of Grandmaster, which FIDE awarded him in 1996. Chess career Golod was Ukrainian champion in 1991. He then moved to Israel. In 2004, he ...

in the 4th

Georgy Agzamov Georgy Tadzhikhanovich Agzamov (September 6, 1954, Tashkent – August 27, 1986, Sevastopol) was a Soviet chess Grandmaster, the first from Central Asia. He became an International Master in 1982 and was awarded the Grandmaster title in 1984. ...

Memorial in

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, winning the tournament on tiebreak, tied for 1st–6th with Dmitry Kokarev,

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, Baskaran Adhiban and

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in the 2nd Orissa Open tournament in

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. In 2011 he tied for 2nd–6th with Konstantine Shanava,

Mikhail Ulibin Mikhail Vitalyevich Ulibin (russian: Михаил Витальевич Улыбин, links=no; born 31 May 1971) is a Russian chess player, who was awarded the title of grandmaster by FIDE in 1991. He played in the Soviet junior champion ...

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and Levon Babujian in the 4th

Karen Asrian Karen Asrian ( hy, Կարեն Ասրյան; 24 April 1980 – 9 June 2008) was an Armenian chess player. Awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1998, he was a three-time Armenian champion. Asrian was a member of the gold medal-winning Arme ...

Memorial in

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, tied for 2nd–7th with

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, Aleksander Delchev, Ivan Šarić, Pablo Almagro Llamas and

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the 31st Villa de

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Open and tied for 2nd–7th with

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, Krisztian Szabo,

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and

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in the

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Schachfestival in

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. In January 2012 Turov won the Group C of the

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. Later that year, he won again the Agzamov Memorial, on tiebreak over

Mikheil Mchedlishvili Mikheil Mchedlishvili ( ka, მიხეილ მჭედლიშვილი; born 4 June 1979) is a Georgian chess grandmaster. He is a three-time Georgian Chess Champion. Chess career Born in 1979, Mchedlishvili won the Georgian Chess ...

and

Anton Filippov Anton Filippov (born 6 December 1986 in Tashkent) is an Uzbekistani chess Grandmaster (2008). He won the Asian Under-16 Chess Championship in 2001 in Doha, and the Asian U18 Championship in 2004. In 2007 he tied for 1st–3rd with Vladimir Egin ...

. In 2014, he tied for 1st–3rd with

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and

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in the

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Chess International GM Tournament. He is

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to Irina Slavina Turova, also a chess player.

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Maxim Turov
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