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Mark Bluvshtein

MARK BLUVSHTEIN (born Apr-20-1988, 37 years old) Russia (federation/nationality Canada) [what is this?] Mark Bluvshtein was born in Russia on April 20, 1988, but he now lives in Toronto, a graduate of York University who plans to pursue a banking career. He won the IM title in 2001, and in 2004, Bluvshtein became the youngest Canadian ever to earn the grandmaster title, later topping the Canadian player ratings on the 2010 March FIDE listings. Improving on his 6th place U-14 finish in 2002 at same event series, he again finished 3rd in 2005 at the World Under-18 championship and got joint first place at the Canadian Open in the latter mentioned year, winning a game against Alexey Shirov. During the past decade, he participated in major team events such as Dresden Olympiad (2008) , Turin Olympiad (2006) , Calvia Olympiad (2004) and Bled Olympiad (2002) - and he has played as high as top board, with a score of 35 points accumulated in 54 games. He attended the Khanty-Mansiysk Olympiad (2010) on top Canadian board (4 wins & 4 draws in 11 games played). He tied for 1st-2nd with Emilio Cordova in the Capablanca memorial 2011 Premier group & again tied for 1st-4th (6 wins, 3 draws in 9 games) with Lazaro Bruzon Batista, Giovanni Vescovi and Yuniesky Quesada Perez in the 2011 Pan-American Continental chess championship which qualified him for the World Cup (2011) where he was eliminated in the 1st round by Alexander Riazantsev of Russia. Alexander Huzman helped train him. In October, 2011, Bluvshtein announced in a blog post that he was leaving chess to pursue a career in finance. As of November 2023 his LinkedIn profile lists him as the VP of digital member platforms for People Corporation and Collage HR. References: http://www.chess.ca/memberinfo.asp?... (Canadian zone site), http://www.chessontario.com/ (Ontario Chess Association - OCA), http://torontochess.org/drupal/ (Greater Toronto Chess League - GTCL), http://markbluvshtein.wordpress.com/ (personal blog), http://www.olimpbase.org (Olympiad & team chess chronological catalog), http://learn.infusion.com/ (+15-0=0 (including Erwin Casareno who nearly found a draw) at a 2016 simul), Wikipedia article: Mark Bluvshtein https://ca.linkedin.com/in/mark-blu.... Last updated: 2023-11-13 19:37:45

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page 1 of 15; games 1-25 of 354  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. Radjabov vs M Bluvshtein 1-0 17 1997 EU-ch U10 D03 Torre Attack (Tartakower Variation) 2. E Romanov vs M Bluvshtein   1-0 32 1999 Wch U12 A07 King's Indian Attack 3. M Bluvshtein vs L Yee   ½-½ 35 2000 Christmas Toronto B18 Caro-Kann, Classical 4. A Gurevich vs M Bluvshtein   ½-½ 29 2001 CAN-chJ E04 Catalan, Open, 5.Nf3 5. D Raheb vs M Bluvshtein   ½-½ 36 2001 CAN-chJ E39 Nimzo-Indian, Classical, Pirc Variation 6. M Bluvshtein vs D Gormally   0-1 60 2001 Oakham ENG B48 Sicilian, Taimanov Variation 7. C McNab vs M Bluvshtein   1-0 40 2001 Oakham ENG A13 English 8. M Bluvshtein vs J Levitt   ½-½ 18 2001 Oakham ENG B40 Sicilian 9. D Tyomkin vs M Bluvshtein   0-1 49 2001 Oakham ENG E11 Bogo-Indian Defense 10. M Bluvshtein vs N McDonald   ½-½ 38 2001 Oakham ENG C18 French, Winawer 11. N Pert vs M Bluvshtein   1-0 21 2001 Oakham ENG E12 Queen's Indian 12. M Bluvshtein vs Koneru   0-1 41 2001 Oakham ENG B17 Caro-Kann, Steinitz Variation 13. M Bluvshtein vs I Krush   1-0 53 2001 Oakham ENG B89 Sicilian 14. J Estrada Nieto vs M Bluvshtein   ½-½ 15 2001 Oakham ENG C07 French, Tarrasch 15. M Bluvshtein vs I Lipnowski   1-0 59 2001 Canadian Open E11 Bogo-Indian Defense 16. M Bluvshtein vs M Mulyar   ½-½ 21 2001 Canadian Open E41 Nimzo-Indian 17. F Kleist vs M Bluvshtein 1-0 44 2001 Canadian Open E11 Bogo-Indian Defense 18. A Gurevich vs M Bluvshtein   0-1 20 2001 Canadian Open A62 Benoni, Fianchetto Variation 19. E Lawson vs M Bluvshtein   0-1 58 2001 Canadian Closed B88 Sicilian, Fischer-Sozin Attack 20. T Roussel-Roozmon vs M Bluvshtein   ½-½ 42 2001 Canadian Closed A30 English, Symmetrical 21. M Bluvshtein vs A Lesiege   ½-½ 17 2001 Canadian Closed D10 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav 22. M Bluvshtein vs R Gardner   1-0 45 2001 Canadian Closed A57 Benko Gambit 23. R Phillips vs M Bluvshtein   ½-½ 23 2001 Canadian Closed E22 Nimzo-Indian, Spielmann Variation 24. M Bluvshtein vs S Glinert   ½-½ 33 2001 Canadian Closed B07 Pirc 25. V Gaspariants vs M Bluvshtein   0-1 66 2001 Canadian Closed A07 King's Indian Attack  page 1 of 15; games 1-25 of 354

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< Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 1 OF 3 ·  Later Kibitzing> Feb-29-04    ConLaMismaMano: Is this a canadian prodigy? he was born in 88'. Feb-29-04    refutor: yes...i believe he's still the youngest international master in north america (i believe GM nakamura is older than him). he had a great start to aeroflot, beating vladimir belov, and dolmatov and then drawing inarkiev (above) to be amongst the leaders at 2.5/3, but then he fell off. he will most likely be canada's next GM (after pascal charbonneau who already has his norms and just needs to get his rating over 2500) Feb-29-04    Bitzovich: I know Mark in person.. he is nice guy, (in grade 10 now, i believe) and for all i know, he has a lot of GM potential. Mar-23-04    ruylopez900: Here are some career highlights to a Canadian prodigy (up to 2002): IM Mark Bluvshtein - Toronto, ON 1998 1st Israel ch B10 1998 World ch B10 1999 1st Israel ch B12 1999 World ch B12 2001 1st Canada ch B14 2001 1st Canada ch Grade 7 2001 3rd Canada ch 2001 8th World ch B14 2001 IM Oct-16-04    Lawrence: Mark Bluvshtein must be one of the youngest players at the Calvià Olympiad--or any Olympiad. Oct-16-04    percyblakeney: Bluvshtein is indeed young, but he's no record holder, 10-year-old Heidi Cueller of Guatemala participated in 1986, see "Olympiads": http://www.logicalchess.com/info/tr... Oct-24-04    tldr3: Today Mark Bluvshtein was awarded the GM title at the FIDE meeting at the Calvia olympics. Congratulations Mark, Canada is proud of you!!! Oct-24-04    morphy234: I think I met this guy before at my school. Dec-07-04    ruylopez900: Congrats to Bluvshtein for being voted the Canadian Chess Player of the Year with 40 votes total. Second place was Charbonneau with 9 votes and third, Zhe Quan with 7 votes. Apr-02-05    mellow: I'm gonna have to jump on borad this train... Way to go Mark! Make us proud eh. Jul-16-05    CdnPathfinder: Mark (2525)just beat Shirov (2705) at the Canadain Open. 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Nxe5 d6 4. Nf3 Nxe4 5. d4 d5 6. Bd3 Bd6 7. 0-0 0-0 8. c4 c6 9. Qc2 Na6 10. a3 Bg4 11. Ne5 Bf5 12. b4 f6 13. Nf3 Qe8 14. b5 Qh5 15. bxa6 Bg4 16. Re1 Bxf3 17. gxf3 Qxh2+ 18. Kf1 f5 19. cxd5 cxd5 20. fxe4 fxe4 21. Bxe4 dxe4 22. Be3 Bg3 23. Ra2 Rf3 White resigns Jul-16-05    CdnPathfinder: Using the Petroff with a sacrifice(?) thrown in for good measure Jul-16-05    tldr3: Congratulations to GM Bluvshtein. A fantastic game against one of the world's best. Good luck tommorrow in the last round. Jul-16-05    CdnPathfinder: Boards 1 - 3 of final round of Canadian Open. They'll be broadcast live on ICC, starting 2pm central. 1 Ivanchuk, Vassily [7.5] : Bologan, Viktor [7.5] 2 Bluvshtein, Mark [7.5] : Kunte, Abhijit [7] 3 Chanda, Sandipan [7] : Shirov, Alexei [7] Jul-18-05    refutor: Bluvshtein ended up tying for first with Ivanchuk, Bologan, Shirov and IM Chowdhury (who got a GM norm). maybe this will add fuel to my proposed nakamura-bluvshtein match ;) Jul-18-05    VishyFan: <refutor> can u post the important results of the final round? i don't have access to the official site..... Jul-18-05    Chuckles: 1 Ivanchuk, Vassily [7.5] =:= Bologan, Viktor [7.5] 2 Bluvshtein, Mark [7.5] =:= Kunte, Abhijit [7] 3 Chanda, Sandipan [7] 0:1 Shirov, Alexei [7] 4 Chowdhury, SR [7] 1:0 Moiseenko, Alexander [7] 5 Quan, Zhe [7] =:= Ganguly, SS [7] 6 Kidambi, S. [7] =:= Tyomkin, Dmitri [6.5] 7 Gentes, Kevin [6.5] =:= Nataf, Igor-Alexandre [6.5] 8 Roussel-Roozmon, Thomas [6.5] 1:0 Krush, Irina [6.5] 9 Lawson, Eric [6.5] 0:1 Krnan, Tomas [6.5] Jul-18-05    capablancakarpov: Here is the link to the tournament´s official page results: http://www.edmontonchess.org/CdnOpe... Jul-18-05    IMlday: A remarkable result from the young prodigy! I suspect the Shirov game was very well prepared beforehand. Jul-18-05    CdnPathfinder: I second refutor. A Bluvshtein - Nakamura match would be awesome. Jul-18-05    Montreal1666: Well you guys have to contact the proper Canadian chess autorities and ask them to initiate such a match. Have anyobody here met Bluvshtein in person? Is he 17 years old now? Jul-18-05    aw1988: I third that match. Jul-18-05    CdnPathfinder: From the FIDE site, Mark's DOB is Apr 20, 1988 (17 years old). Don't know him personally, but have seen him play live. Seems like a nice enough young man. http://www.fide.com/ratings/card.ph... Jul-18-05    Montreal1666: The photo in chessbase article makes him look older than 17. Are there more photo's somewhere? Jul-18-05    CdnPathfinder: here's a link to some photos taken in rd 9. Mark's the guy wearing the yellow shirt at one of the head tables. http://www.pbase.com/tracyk/chess_r... Jump to page #    (enter # from 1 to 3) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 1 OF 3 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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