Sergei Lobanov (russian: Сергей Андреевич Лобанов; born 19 May 2001) is a Russian
chess
Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to disti ...
player who holds the title of
grandmaster.
Biography
Sergei Lobanov was student of
Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...
chess school. He played for Russia in
European Youth Chess Championships and
World Youth Chess Championships in the different age groups and best result reached in 2015 in
Poreč
Poreč (; it, Parenzo; la, Parens or ; grc, Πάρενθος, Párenthos) is a town and municipality on the western coast of the Istrian peninsula, in Istria County, west Croatia. Its major landmark is the 6th-century Euphrasian Basilica, whic ...
, when he won European Youth Chess Championship in the U14 age group. In 2013, Sergei Lobanov won bronze medal in World Youth Chess Championship in the U12 age group.
He two times played for Russia team in World Youth U16 Chess Olympiads where he won gold (2017) and silver (2016) medal in team competition, as well as silver (2017) and bronze (2016) medals in individual competition.
In 2016, Sergei Lobanov won the bronze medal in the Saint Petersburg Chess Championship. In 2017, he won Saint Petersburg International Chess tournament with Grandmaster norm.
In 2017, he was awarded the FIDE International Master (IM) title,
and in 2022 he became a grandmaster (GM).
References
External links
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Sergei Lobanovchess games at 365chess.com
2001 births
Living people
Russian chess players
Chess grandmasters
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