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Pavel Kotsur
Number of games in database: 304
Years covered: 1991 to 2014
Last FIDE rating: 2567 (2548 rapid, 2538 blitz)
Highest rating achieved in database: 2600
Overall record: +110 -47 =112 (61.7%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
      Based on games in the database; may be incomplete.
      35 exhibition games, odds games, etc. are excluded from this statistic.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:  Sicilian (50)      B45 B32 B52 B84 B50  English (18)      A13 A15 A17 A16 A14  Scotch Game (8)      C45  King's Indian (8)      E60 E61 E62 E69 E75  English, 1 c4 e5 (7)      A20 A29 A22 A25  Sicilian Taimanov (7)      B45 B47 B46 B48	With the Black pieces:  Sicilian (52)      B42 B58 B51 B22 B23  Queen's Pawn Game (19)      A40 A46 A45 A41 D05  Nimzo Indian (17)      E38 E32 E43 E21 E57  Sicilian Kan (10)      B42 B43 B41  Modern Benoni (8)      A61 A67 A68 A64  Ruy Lopez (8)      C78 C67 C95 C87 C69

NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   H Porth vs P Kotsur, 2001 0-1
   P Kotsur vs T L Petrosian, 2009 1-0

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS: [what is this?]
   FIDE World Championship Knockout Tournament (2001)
   FIDE World Championship Knockout Tournament (2004)

NOTABLE TOURNAMENTS: [what is this?]
   Piloo Mody Open (2004)
   Asian Nations Cup (2014)
   Asian Chess Championship (2005)
   8th Dubai Open (2006)
   World Cities Team Championship (2012)
   Dubai Open (2008)
   Aeroflot Open (2009)
   3rd Aeroflot Festival (2004)
   It (open) St. Petersburg 300 (2003)
   Bled Olympiad (2002)
   Olympiad (2008)
   Aeroflot Open (2011)
   Chess Olympiad (2014)

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PAVEL KOTSUR (born Jan-03-1974, 41 years old) Kazakhstan [what is this?] IM in 1993, GM in 1996. Rated 2607 in July 2004. FIDE Arbiter 2009. ICC: Pashket. Played in 6 olympiads 1994-2002 and 2008 Asian Team Ch 1995, 1999 and 2003, and in World Team Ch 1997 (board 1). Knocked out in 1st round of FIDE World Ch four times (1999, 2002, 2004 and 2005). 2nd (shared) in Abu Dhabi Masters 2003, 1st in Kaz/Uzb Zonal 2003, 1st in Pavlodar Open (Kazakhstan) Dec. 2007, 3rd in Parsvnath Open Jan. 2010. The Kazakhstan team chose him for their coach/captain for the 2012 Olympiad and he is also a FIDE Arbiter. Wikipedia article: Pavel Kotsur

page 1 of 13; games 1-25 of 304  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. P Kotsur vs D Rogozenko   1-0 73 1991 URS-chT B45 Sicilian, Taimanov 2. Glek vs P Kotsur   1-0 54 1991 Azov B77 Sicilian, Dragon, Yugoslav Attack 3. P Kotsur vs Morozevich   0-1 40 1992 URS-ch U18 E60 King's Indian Defense 4. Rublevsky vs P Kotsur   ½-½ 23 1993 Kurgan B51 Sicilian, Canal-Sokolsky (Rossolimo) Attack 5. P Kotsur vs Savon   1-0 58 1993 Kurgan B95 Sicilian, Najdorf, 6...e6 6. P Kotsur vs Ftacnik   ½-½ 19 1994 Moscow olm KAZ-SVK B84 Sicilian, Scheveningen 7. P Kotsur vs V Predein   1-0 35 1994 Kurgan, RUS B95 Sicilian, Najdorf, 6...e6 8. A Obukhov vs P Kotsur   ½-½ 28 1994 Kurgan, RUS D72 Neo-Grunfeld, 5.cd, Main line 9. P Kotsur vs D Chuprikov   1-0 45 1994 Kurgan, RUS C41 Philidor Defense 10. P Kotsur vs Z Rahman   ½-½ 43 1994 Moscow ol (Men) B30 Sicilian 11. P Kotsur vs B Avrukh   ½-½ 34 1994 Kurgan, RUS B62 Sicilian, Richter-Rauzer 12. Nunn vs P Kotsur   0-1 64 1994 Moscow olm B27 Sicilian 13. Balashov vs P Kotsur   ½-½ 50 1994 Kurgan B23 Sicilian, Closed 14. S Galdunts vs P Kotsur   1-0 54 1994 Kurgan, RUS B53 Sicilian 15. A Pugachov vs P Kotsur   ½-½ 9 1994 Kurgan, RUS C69 Ruy Lopez, Exchange, Gligoric Variation, 6.d4 16. P Kotsur vs Rublevsky   0-1 47 1994 Kurgan, RUS B40 Sicilian 17. P Kotsur vs B Alterman   ½-½ 51 1994 Moscow ol (Men) B52 Sicilian, Canal-Sokolsky (Rossolimo) Attack 18. E Mochalov vs P Kotsur   1-0 32 1994 Kurgan, RUS A67 Benoni, Taimanov Variation 19. P Kotsur vs E Pospelov   1-0 39 1994 Kurgan, RUS B08 Pirc, Classical 20. Balashov vs P Kotsur   ½-½ 63 1995 Kurgan B39 Sicilian, Accelerated Fianchetto, Breyer Variation 21. M Saltaev vs P Kotsur 1-0 25 1995 It (open), III B27 Sicilian 22. Kupreichik vs P Kotsur   0-1 61 1995 Kurgan B90 Sicilian, Najdorf 23. P Kotsur vs Yurtaev   1-0 37 1995 It (cat.10) C45 Scotch Game 24. P Kotsur vs P Corbin   1-0 29 1996 Yerevan ol (Men) C40 King's Knight Opening 25. B Lalic vs P Kotsur 0-1 40 1997 WchT 4th A67 Benoni, Taimanov Variation  page 1 of 13; games 1-25 of 304

Mar-09-06    PizzatheHut: I see that GM Kotsur is from Kazakhstan. Pardon my ignorance, but could anyone help me with some other GM's that are from Kazakhstan as well? Mar-09-06    iron maiden: Darmen Sadvakasov of course. For a list of others, you can check the FIDE site: http://fide.com/ratings/topfed.phtm... Mar-09-06    PizzatheHut: Thanks man, I appreciate it. May-02-09    BIDMONFA: Pavel Kotsur KOTSUR, Pavel http://www.bidmonfa.com/kotsur_pave... _ Jan-24-10    Tabanus: GM Pavel Kotsur, Kazakhstan, born 3 January 1974. Now rated 2568, http://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?... IM in 1993. GM in 1996. Rated 2607 in July 2004. FIDE Arbiter 2009. ICC: Pashket Played in the olympiads 1994 (board 3), 1996 (1st reserve), 1998 (bd. 3), 2000 (bd. 1), 2002 (bd. 1) and 2008 (bd. 2, 6.5/10), Asian Team Ch 1995 (bd. 3), 1999 (bd. 2) and 2003 (bd. 2), and in World Team Ch 1997 (board 1). Kazakhstani vice champion 2002 (and more?). Knocked out in 1st round of FIDE World Ch four times (1999, 2002, 2004 and 2005). Placed 4th in Kazakhstan Ch 2003, 2nd (shared) in Abu Dhabi Masters 2003, 1st in Kaz/Uzb Zonal 2003, 6th in Piloo Mody Open (India) Oct. 2004, 10th in Abu Dhabi Open Aug. 2005, 4th in ONGC Cup (India) March 2006, 2nd in in Kazakhstan Ch Aug. 2006, 11th in Dubai Open April 2007, 1st in Pavlodar Open (Kazakhstan) Dec. 2007, 34th in Moscow Open A Feb. 2009, 3rd in Parsvnath Open 14-22 Jan. 2010: http://www.chess-results.com/tnr293... Biographies: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavel_... http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pawe%C... (in Polish) Pictures: http://www.arabfide.com/dubaiopen20... http://www.chessbase.de/2005/dubai/... http://iulianceausescu.files.wordpr... Feb-04-11    Don Cossacks: The Kotsur-Zhou Weiqi game in Moscow Open 2011 was ambiguous.White was obviously winning but it was 0-1 any clarifications? http://open.moschess.ru/eng/Tournam...

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