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.

Biography

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 Eforie Nord, 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, Rinat Jumabayev and Vitali Golod in the 4th

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Memorial in

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

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, Martyn Kravtsiv, Baskaran Adhiban and Aleksej Aleksandrov in the 2nd Orissa Open tournament in

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. In 2011 he tied for 2nd–6th with Konstantine Shanava, Mikhail Ulibin, Robert Hovhannisyan and Levon Babujian in the 4th Karen Asrian Memorial in Jermuk, 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 Benasque Open and tied for 2nd–7th with Deep Sengupta, Viacheslav Zakhartsov, Krisztian Szabo, Lev Gutman, Dávid Bérczes and Samuel Shankland 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 and

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. In 2014, he tied for 1st–3rd with Jan Werle and Yuri Solodovnichenko in the

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Chess International GM Tournament. He is

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to Irina Slavina Turova, also a chess player.

References

External links

Maxim Turov
chess games at 365Chess.com * {{DEFAULTSORT:Turov, Maxim 1979 births Living people Chess Grandmasters Russian chess players People from Gukovo