Valerij Popov
Number of games in database: 534
Years covered: 1990 to 2012
Last FIDE rating: 2548
Highest rating achieved in database: 2595
Overall record: +175 -114 =209 (56.1%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
      Based on games in the database; may be incomplete.
      36 exhibition games, odds games, etc. are excluded from this statistic.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:  English (41)      A15 A13 A17 A11 A14  King's Indian (33)      E92 E94 E91 E97 E70  Slav (26)      D11 D15 D12 D19 D14  Queen's Gambit Declined (22)      D37 D38 D31 D30 D35  Queen's Pawn Game (17)      A41 A45 D02 A46 A40  English, 1 c4 c5 (14)      A30 A34 A33	With the Black pieces:  Sicilian (55)      B90 B97 B22 B92 B20  Slav (41)      D11 D17 D19 D10 D18  Sicilian Najdorf (35)      B90 B97 B92 B91 B95  Queen's Gambit Declined (29)      D30 D31 D37 D38 D35  Semi-Slav (22)      D45 D44 D46 D43  Caro-Kann (20)      B12 B18 B11 B10 B17

NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   V Popov vs D Pushkarev, 2009 1-0
   Movsesian vs V Popov, 2002 0-1
   V Popov vs Z Plenkovic, 2009 1-0

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VALERIJ POPOV (born Sep-10-1974) Russia [what is this?] Grandmaster

page 1 of 22; games 1-25 of 534  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. V Popov vs V Vepkhvishvili   ½-½ 83 1990 Open Teteven E60 King's Indian Defense 2. V Popov vs Svidler 0-1 40 1993 St.Petersburg op E61 King's Indian 3. V Popov vs Tseshkovsky   0-1 71 1993 St Petersburg op A45 Queen's Pawn Game 4. A Gorbatov vs V Popov   0-1 25 1993 Memorial M.Chigorin C33 King's Gambit Accepted 5. L Totsky vs V Popov   1-0 38 1994 Orel AF-ch, Cat.9 B20 Sicilian 6. Geller vs V Popov   ½-½ 23 1994 St Petersburg B06 Robatsch 7. S Kiselev vs V Popov   1-0 54 1994 Orel AF-ch, Cat.9 A88 Dutch, Leningrad, Main Variation with c6 8. V Popov vs I Yagupov   1-0 39 1994 Orel AF-ch, Cat.9 A21 English 9. V Popov vs I Zaitsev   ½-½ 79 1994 Orel AF-ch, Cat.9 A45 Queen's Pawn Game 10. V Popov vs E Mukhametov   ½-½ 73 1994 Orel AF-ch, Cat.9 A13 English 11. A Gorbatov vs V Popov   ½-½ 69 1994 Orel AF-ch, Cat.9 A10 English 12. V Neverov vs V Popov   1-0 36 1994 Orel AF-ch, Cat.9 A80 Dutch 13. V Popov vs M Turov   ½-½ 96 1994 St Petersburg op A15 English 14. N Pushkov vs V Popov   1-0 51 1994 Orel AF-ch, Cat.9 A80 Dutch 15. V Popov vs V Komliakov   ½-½ 48 1994 Orel AF-ch, Cat.9 D13 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav, Exchange Variation 16. V Popov vs N Legky   ½-½ 54 1994 Orel AF-ch, Cat.9 E00 Queen's Pawn Game 17. Khalifman vs V Popov   ½-½ 19 1994 Memorial M.Chigorin A80 Dutch 18. Savon vs V Popov   1-0 42 1994 Orel AF-ch, Cat.9 E10 Queen's Pawn Game 19. V Popov vs Dreev 0-1 40 1995 RUS-chT Kazan D43 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav 20. A Riazantsev vs V Popov   1-0 74 1996 Petrov Memorial A81 Dutch 21. A Rechinsky vs V Popov   ½-½ 41 1996 Petrov mem B93 Sicilian, Najdorf, 6.f4 22. V Popov vs Savon   ½-½ 11 1997 White Nights op D21 Queen's Gambit Accepted 23. Savon vs V Popov   ½-½ 12 1997 St Petersburg-B E54 Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3, Gligoric System 24. V Popov vs Savon   ½-½ 46 1997 St Petersburg-B A15 English 25. Jobava vs V Popov   0-1 35 1998 Petrov mem D44 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav  page 1 of 22; games 1-25 of 534

Feb-14-06    SickedChess: This chess player is huge fan of Drawnik but he can draw in just 5 moves! Feb-16-06    SickedChess: Today Popov with white offer a draw to Efimenko but the GM from Ukraine decline and played for the win! Feb-16-06    SickedChess: [Event "Aeroflot Open 2006"] [Site "Moscow"] [Date "2006/2/16"] [Round "09"] [White "Popov, Valerij"] [Black "Efimenko, Zahar"] [Result "0-1"] [Board "14"] [Input "DGT3890"] [Owner "Association of Chess Federations, Moscow"] 1. Nf3 c5 2. c4 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 e6 5. Nc3 Bb4 6. Qd3 Nf6 7. a3 Bc5 8. e3 O-O 9. Be2 Ne5 10. Qc2 b6 11. b4 Be7 12. f4 Ng6 13. h4 h5 14. Bd3 Bb7 15. Nf3 a5 16. Rb1 axb4 17. axb4 d5 18. Ng5 Qc8 19. Bxg6 fxg6 20. Qxg6 d4 21. Ne2 Qxc4 22. Nxd4 Bxb4+ 23. Kf2 Ra2+ 24. Rb2 Bd5 25. Kg3 Bc3 26. Rxa2 Qxa2 27. Ndf3 Qa4 28. Qd3 Rc8 29. Rd1 b5 30. Kh2 Ng4+ 31. Kg1 Nf6 32. Kh2 Qc4 33. Qxc4 bxc4 34. Kg3 Ra8 35. Bd2 Bb2 36. e4 Nxe4+ 37. Nxe4 Bxe4 0-1 Sep-10-06    BIDMONFA: Valerij Popov POPOV, Valerij http://www.bidmonfa.com/popov_valer... _

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