Ruslan Sherbakov
Number of games in database: 218
Years covered: 1988 to 2005
Current FIDE rating: 2496
Highest rating achieved in database: 2580
Overall record: +65 -41 =104 (55.7%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
      Based on games in the database; may be incomplete.
      8 exhibition games, odds games, etc. are excluded from this statistic.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:  Nimzo Indian (14)      E42 E34 E59 E32 E48  King's Indian (11)      E97 E94 E91  Slav (10)      D17 D11 D15 D16 D12  English (9)      A14 A15 A13 A10  Queen's Pawn Game (7)      A41 D02 A40 D00 E10  Grunfeld (6)      D85	With the Black pieces:  Sicilian (48)      B30 B32 B23 B65 B58  Queen's Gambit Declined (12)      D31 D30 D36 D35 D37  Modern Benoni (11)      A65 A70 A79 A61 A67  Sicilian Richter-Rauser (8)      B65 B67 B63 B61  King's Indian Attack (8)      A07  Queen's Gambit Accepted (8)      D27 D20

NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   Suetin vs R Sherbakov, 1991 0-1
   Kramnik vs R Sherbakov, 1989 1/2-1/2
   R Sherbakov vs D Jakovenko, 2001 1-0

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page 1 of 9; games 1-25 of 218  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. M Sorokin vs R Sherbakov   1-0 40 1988 Borzhomi U20 A13 English 2. R Sherbakov vs Khenkin   0-1 38 1988 Borzhomi A14 English 3. Smirin vs R Sherbakov   ½-½ 44 1988 Borzhomi U20 B83 Sicilian 4. Shirov vs R Sherbakov   ½-½ 56 1988 Ch URS (juniors) D35 Queen's Gambit Declined 5. Piskov vs R Sherbakov   1-0 53 1988 URS-chT D36 Queen's Gambit Declined, Exchange, Positional line, 6.Qc2 6. Dreev vs R Sherbakov 1-0 49 1988 Borzhomi (Georgia) D20 Queen's Gambit Accepted 7. R Sherbakov vs Shabalov   1-0 38 1988 Nabereznye Chelny A04 Reti Opening 8. Y Kruppa vs R Sherbakov   0-1 40 1988 URS-chT B88 Sicilian, Fischer-Sozin Attack 9. Kramnik vs R Sherbakov ½-½ 35 1989 Sochi (Russia) B58 Sicilian 10. R Sherbakov vs G Timoshenko   0-1 48 1989 Cheliabinsk E12 Queen's Indian 11. Kholmov vs R Sherbakov   ½-½ 16 1989 Cheliabinsk A07 King's Indian Attack 12. M Brodsky vs R Sherbakov   0-1 51 1989 URS-qual U20 B58 Sicilian 13. Bagirov vs R Sherbakov   1-0 36 1989 Budapest Spring-op , A07 King's Indian Attack 14. R Sherbakov vs Kramnik   ½-½ 25 1990 RSFSR-ch A85 Dutch, with c4 & Nc3 15. V Vepkhvishvili vs R Sherbakov   0-1 32 1990 Open Teteven A47 Queen's Indian 16. R Sherbakov vs A Galliamova-Ivanchuk   1-0 27 1990 C07 E15 Queen's Indian 17. R Sherbakov vs M Magomedov   1-0 44 1990 Chelyabinsk D34 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch 18. R Sherbakov vs G Timoshchenko   ½-½ 26 1990 URS-chT A48 King's Indian 19. Kharlov vs R Sherbakov   ½-½ 21 1990 RSFSR-ch D47 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav 20. Kharlov vs R Sherbakov   ½-½ 20 1990 Cheliabinsk-B B14 Caro-Kann, Panov-Botvinnik Attack 21. S Smagin vs R Sherbakov   1-0 60 1990 URS-chT D45 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav 22. Sveshnikov vs R Sherbakov 1-0 24 1991 Moscow ch-URS B30 Sicilian 23. R Sherbakov vs P Korzubov   0-1 44 1991 URS-ch58 A81 Dutch 24. R Sherbakov vs Sakaev   ½-½ 11 1991 URS-ch58 A07 King's Indian Attack 25. R Sherbakov vs Savon   ½-½ 21 1991 Cheliabinsk E32 Nimzo-Indian, Classical  page 1 of 9; games 1-25 of 218

Jul-29-05    Knight13: He drew Kramnik twice. Not bad. Player of the Day. Jul-29-05    Cecil Brown: He writes the 1.d4 d5 page at chesspublishing.com http://www.chesspublishing.com/cont... Sep-16-05    strifeknot: <Player of the Day.> And again today! How often does this happen? (I'm fairly new here.) Sep-16-05    WannaBe: <strifeknot> Random number generator... This player's id number in the database is 21383 Sep-16-05    WTHarvey: Here are some puzzles from Ruslan's early games: http://www.wtharvey.com/sher.html Jan-03-06    biglo: Born 14 September 1969 near Great Novgorod, USSR. He attended a chess school run by GM Panchenko. In 1990 he was the coach for the Russian team in the Soviet youth team championship (players included Kramnik). In 1989 he became an IM and in 1992 he became a GM. In 1992/93, Hastings +7-1=3, 1st place In the 1994 Russian team championship, he achieved 1st place in the Kadyr team playing on the 1st board. Jan-21-06    Ludamad: <<Player of the Day.> And again today! How often does this happen? (I'm fairly new here.)> ... AND AGAIN TODAY! Jan-21-06    BIDMONFA: Ruslan Sherbakov SHERBAKOV, Ruslan http://www.bidmonfa.com/sherbakov_r... _ Jan-21-06    kidster: Players of the days should have bios Feb-23-06    jperr75108: A popular guy with chessgames.com. Feb-23-06    Caissanist: Hmm, I wonder how many times, say, Kasparov or Fischer or Capablanca has been player of the day? Methinks that the random number generator has a tiny little bug somewhere.

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