Ruslan Shcherbakov ( or ''Scherbakov'' or ''Sherbakov''; born 14 September 1969) is a Russian
chess
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player and trainer. He received the
FIDE title
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Shcherbakov was born on 14 September 1969 in the small town of
Staraya Russa
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,
USSR
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. He first learned to play chess when he was four years old, but did not begin to study the game seriously until 1980, at the age of eleven. From 1981 to 1992, he attended Alexander Panchenko's chess school, and in 1990, he worked with Panchenko coaching the Russian team in the Soviet youth team championship. Members of this team included
Vladimir Kramnik
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and
Sergei Rublevsky
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.
Shcherbakov became a Soviet chess master in 1987, an
international master
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in 1989, and a grandmaster in 1992. In 1990, he shared first place in the
Russian Chess Championship
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Maxim Sorokin
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In 2004 he tied for first with Saidali Iuldachev in the Murzagaliev Memorial in Uralsk, Kazakhstan. In 2007 he coach ...
. Shcherbakov was part of the Russian team that won the gold medal at the European Senior Team Championship 2019 in the 50+ category.
Also a trainer, among the players he has coached are
Parimarjan Negi
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,
Kateryna Lagno
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, and
Dinara Saduakassova
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He and his wife, Tanya, have two children.