
Shukhrat Safin (3 April 1970 – 20 September 2009) was an Uzbekistani
chess
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player. He was awarded the title of
Grandmaster by
FIDE
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in 1999.
Safin shared first place with
Mikhail Gurevich and
Victor Mikhalevski
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his Elo rating was 2611, making him the #7 player in Israel and the 171st-highest rated player in the ...
in the
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in
Vlissingen
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. He finished third on tiebreak score. In 2001, Safin won the
Uzbekistani Chess Championship. In late November of the same year, he took part in the
FIDE World Championship. Here he was knocked out in the first round by
Predrag Nikolić
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Biography
He first competed for the Yugoslav Championship in 1979, taking a share of second place. The following year and again in 1984, he went ...
. In 2002 Safin tied for 1st–3rd with
Mikhail Ulibin
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He played in the Soviet junior champion ...
and
Evgeny Gleizerov
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Together with 43 other Russian chess players, Gleizerov signed an open letter to Russian president Vladimir Putin, prote ...
at the Masters tournament of the 12th
Abu Dhabi Chess Festival. In 2008 he came third in the
Kolkata
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Open. In 2009, he tied for 5th-10th with
Chakkravarthy Deepan
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Born in Madurai, Deepan Chakkravarthy won the Asian Junior Chess Championship in 2002. In the 2004 edition he fini ...
,
Georgy Timoshenko,
Sundar Shyam,
Saidali Iuldachev
Saidali Iuldachev ( uz, Saidali Yo‘ldoshev, script=Latn; born January 31, 1968) is an Uzbekistani chess Grandmaster (1997).
Career
He won Uzbekistani Chess Championship in 1993 and 2003. In 2004 he tied for 2nd–4th with Praveen Thipsay ...
and
Andrei Deviatkin
Andrei Deviatkin (russian: Андрей Девяткин; born October 7, 1980 in Moscow) is a Russian chess grandmaster (2008).
Chess career
* 2007 – tied for 1st–9th with Alexei Fedorov, Vladimir Potkin, Aleksej Aleksandrov, Viacheslav Z ...
in the
Mumbai
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Mayor Cup.
Safin played for Uzbekistan's national team in the
Chess Olympiad
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s of 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002 and 2008, in the
World Team Chess Championship
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2001 and in the
Asian Team Chess Championship The Asian Team Chess Championship (recently also called the Asian Nations Chess Cup) is an international team chess tournament open to national federations affiliated to FIDE in Asia and Oceania. It is organized by the Asian Chess Federation, and th ...
s of 1995 and 2003. In the 1995 event he won two medals: team bronze and individual silver on board four.
Shukhrat Safin
team chess record at Olimpbase.org
He died of blood cancer in his native city of Samarkand
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References
External links
Shukhrat Safin
chess games at 365Chess.com
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1970 births
2009 deaths
Chess grandmasters
Uzbekistani chess players
Chess Olympiad competitors
People from Samarkand
20th-century chess players