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Darmen Sadvakasov
Sadvakasov 
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Number of games in database: 564
Years covered: 1993 to 2024
Last FIDE rating: 2629 (2587 rapid, 2575 blitz)
Highest rating achieved in database: 2643
Overall record: +199 -109 =176 (59.3%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games in the database. 80 exhibition games, blitz/rapid, odds games, etc. are excluded from this statistic.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:
 Sicilian (123) 
    B90 B30 B52 B31 B51
 French Defense (39) 
    C11 C10 C01 C18 C19
 Ruy Lopez (30) 
    C84 C77 C80 C78 C75
 Caro-Kann (23) 
    B18 B17 B13 B10 B15
 French (21) 
    C10 C11 C00 C12
 Sicilian Najdorf (19) 
    B90 B92
With the Black pieces:
 Sicilian (86) 
    B90 B92 B40 B52 B50
 Sicilian Najdorf (56) 
    B90 B92 B91 B93 B98
 Nimzo Indian (28) 
    E34 E21 E41 E25 E46
 Queen's Gambit Accepted (24) 
    D27 D26 D20 D23
 Queen's Indian (20) 
    E15 E17 E12 E14
 Modern Benoni (18) 
    A70 A67 A65 A61 A64
Repertoire Explorer

NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   Sadvakasov vs Kasimdzhanov, 1999 1-0
   Kasimdzhanov vs Sadvakasov, 2003 0-1
   A Ramirez Alvarez vs Sadvakasov, 2004 0-1
   Sadvakasov vs S Peschardt, 2004 1-0
   Z Zhang vs Sadvakasov, 1998 0-1
   Sadvakasov vs S Tatai, 1999 1-0
   Sadvakasov vs Shulman, 2007 1-0
   Kasparov vs Sadvakasov, 2001 1/2-1/2
   H Ibrahim vs Sadvakasov, 1995 0-1
   K Miton vs Sadvakasov, 2000 1/2-1/2

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS: [what is this?]
   FIDE World Championship Knockout Tournament (1999)
   FIDE World Championship Knockout Tournament (2004)

NOTABLE TOURNAMENTS: [what is this?]
   Politiken Cup (2004)
   World Junior Championship (1998)
   Foxwoods Open (2009)
   1st Samba Cup (2003)
   Asian Championship (2003)
   Dubai Open (2006)
   31st World Open (2003)
   Asian Chess Championship (2005)
   Aeroflot Open (2004)
   Foxwoods Open (2008)
   Paris Championship (2005)
   Asia Classical 15th (2006)
   World Youth Championship (Under-14) (1993)
   Istanbul Olympiad (2000)
   HB Global Chess Challenge (2005)

GAME COLLECTIONS: [what is this?]
   1998 World Junior chess championship by gauer
   1993 WYCC (open) U-14 by gauer
   1995 WYCC (open) U-16 by gauer
   1996 WYCC (open) U-18 by gauer
   2000 Continental open by gauer

RECENT GAMES:
   🏆 FIDE World Blitz Team
   D Tuleyeva-Aketayeva vs Sadvakasov (Aug-05-24) 0-1, blitz
   Sadvakasov vs M Amilal (Aug-05-24) 1/2-1/2, blitz
   Sadvakasov vs M Agajanova (Aug-05-24) 1-0, blitz
   Ansar Bakyt vs Sadvakasov (Aug-05-24) 0-1, blitz
   K Aitzhan vs Sadvakasov (Aug-05-24) 0-1, blitz

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DARMEN SADVAKASOV
(born Apr-28-1979, 46 years old) Kazakhstan

[what is this?]
Darmen Kanatovich Sadvakasov, born in Astana, was taught chess by his father at age 4. He became an IM in 1995 and earned the grandmaster title in 1999, after he had won the World Junior Championship the previous year. Since then he has consistently been one of the top-rated players from Kazakhstan, and has made frequent appearances in the overall top 100. Sadvakasov won the Kazakhstan championship in 2003 and 2004. He was the bronze medalist in the 2005 Asian Championship.

Sadvakasov's career highlights include match victories over both Anatoly Karpov (in 2004, by the score of 4.5-3.5) and Viktor Korchnoi (in 2003, by 5-3). He won joint first-place finishes at Bali 2000 and the Samba Cup of 2003, and took clear first at Copenhagen 2004.

His best Elo rating was 2643 in 2008.

Wikipedia article: Darmen Sadvakasov


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 page 1 of 23; games 1-25 of 564  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. Sadvakasov vs P Blehm  0-1571993World Youth Championship (Under-14)D01 Richter-Veresov Attack
2. A Gershon vs Sadvakasov  0-1501993World Youth Championship (Under-14)B40 Sicilian
3. Sadvakasov vs J Baron Rodriguez  1-0361993World Youth Championship (Under-14)C77 Ruy Lopez
4. Sadvakasov vs S Halkias  1-0381993World Youth Championship (Under-14)B23 Sicilian, Closed
5. Sadvakasov vs A Galkin ½-½461993World Youth Championship (Under-14)A16 English
6. E van den Doel vs Sadvakasov  1-0451993World Youth Championship (Under-14)C02 French, Advance
7. Sadvakasov vs O Fachini Neto 1-0291993World Youth Championship (Under-14)C01 French, Exchange
8. A Castillo vs Sadvakasov  ½-½521993World Youth Championship (Under-14)A67 Benoni, Taimanov Variation
9. R Friedmann vs Sadvakasov  1-0551993World Youth Championship (Under-14)C00 French Defense
10. Sadvakasov vs R Leitao  0-1511993World Youth Championship (Under-14)B23 Sicilian, Closed
11. T Mifsud vs Sadvakasov  0-1621993World Youth Championship (Under-14)D14 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav, Exchange Variation
12. H Ibrahim vs Sadvakasov 0-1221995Asia-ch U20A65 Benoni, 6.e4
13. Sadvakasov vs A Andador  ½-½551995Asia-ch U20C64 Ruy Lopez, Classical
14. Sadvakasov vs A Niknaddaf  1-0581995Asia-ch U20B51 Sicilian, Canal-Sokolsky (Rossolimo) Attack
15. Sadvakasov vs N Steffensen  1-0291995Asia-ch U20B40 Sicilian
16. Sadvakasov vs C Rahmani  1-0581995Asia-ch U20C77 Ruy Lopez
17. Ali Tajvidi vs Sadvakasov  0-1611995Asia-ch U20A46 Queen's Pawn Game
18. Sadvakasov vs D Sharma  ½-½721995Asia-ch U20C68 Ruy Lopez, Exchange
19. T Otunchiev vs Sadvakasov  0-1521995Asia-ch U20A73 Benoni, Classical, 9.O-O
20. R Leitao vs Sadvakasov  1-0391995World Championship U16 (boys)A67 Benoni, Taimanov Variation
21. Sadvakasov vs R Bates  ½-½721995World Championship U16 (boys)B52 Sicilian, Canal-Sokolsky (Rossolimo) Attack
22. A Berescu vs Sadvakasov  0-1751995World Championship U16 (boys)B40 Sicilian
23. Sadvakasov vs P Blehm  1-0591995World Championship U16 (boys)D03 Torre Attack (Tartakower Variation)
24. Sadvakasov vs S Yu  ½-½441995World Championship U16 (boys)A29 English, Four Knights, Kingside Fianchetto
25. R Nezzi vs Sadvakasov  0-1411995World Championship U16 (boys)A46 Queen's Pawn Game
 page 1 of 23; games 1-25 of 564  PGN Download
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Kibitzer's Corner
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Oct-14-04  clocked: He will be playing board one for Kazakhstan. We will see if he can keep up his good year and move into the top 50.
Nov-23-04  vonKrolock: Wonderfull report whith photos from the recent Karpov vs Sadvakasov match in Astana, Kazakhstan, by the winner (Sadvakasov), in chessbase.com.

<"I have to say something about Internet online coverage of the games. Before the match Karpov asked the director of the organization to only show our games after move 21. I think that this decision did not make for good promotion for the match. But you know our hospitality. We couldn’t refuse the request of our dear guest Anatoly Karpov">

<"I had some advantage in the openings and the final score 4.5:3.5 confirms this. Karpov was not in a very good form. He had not played for many months before the match. But with the white pieces he pressured me in some games">

DS also anotated some of the games for chessbase.com

Nov-23-04  vonKrolock: http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail... is the address for this report. Also <fritz> Friedel's adventures whith the tranlation of Sadvakasov's original Russian notes:

<"So it is Sunday morning, your Russian contacts in the US and Canada are still asleep, and you want to publish the article. What do you do? Use a machine translation on the Internet, of course. We chose the most popular, AltaVista Babel Fish, which did not bother about the missing font.">

and here some examples (the machine translations followed by a human interpretation

<"Without giving to pass to elephant to diagonal b1-h7 Preventing Black from gaining control of the bishop diagonal b1-h7

The boat in combination with the elephant is much stronger than the boat and horse. The rook and bishop are much stronger than the rook and knight.

The emergent position white will intend to change chernopol'nykh elephants, after leaving to themselves horse against the belopol'nogo elephant of blacks. In the emergent position White intends to exchange the dark-squared bishops, leaving a knight for the light-squared black bishop ["cherno" occurs in the song about black eyes, "belo" is as in "White Russia" – elementary, our dear Watson!]">

Nov-28-04  yoozum: i never understood why bishops are called 'elephants' in russia.
Nov-29-04  vonKrolock: <yoozum:>...<why bishops are called 'elephants' in russia.> "Slon" is simply a translation of the Arab "Fil", another indication that Russia received Chess from Northern India and Iran, by the trading routes, and already in the times of Moslem culture's expansion - and not from Europe. (Castillian Spain, in the other extreme, adopted the Arab name whithout a translation: "Alfil" (the 'al' is arabian article 'the' - by the way, found also in a great number of Portuguese words of Arabic origin, but not in this Chess piece's name: It's 'Bispo'.

More misterious for me is the Russian "Boat" for Rook (the Tower of most of European languages...) Gareth Williams, analyzing an old Russian wooden set, explains that <"The castle has a V cleft cut into the upper part of the piece, similar to the early Arabic rook. But in Russia this shape is not meant to be a chariot but a boat (a LADIA)"> (from "Master Pieces, the architecture of chess", Quintet Pub. 2000

Jan-15-05  MonsieurL: <vonKrolock>In Turkey, they call the bishop fil, but the other pieces are all Turkish words. NOW I know where they got fil from. Thanks!

Satranch-chess (pronounced sahtrahnch)
King-shah
Queen-vizier (second to sultan)
Bishop-fil
Knight-at (pronounced ah-aht)
Rook-kale (Turkish for castle)
Pawn-piyade

Very cool! :)

Jan-15-05  vonKrolock: <MonsieurL> De rien! - shah and vizi(e)r are also from Persian and/or Arabian origin, i believe - AT sounds quite Turkish, indeed - and PIYADE: Maybe some connections whith the same word that originated the name of this piece in the European langages - Latin Pedonis ( originally "one whith big foots", later "one that go on foot" - soldier or peasant )
Jan-15-05  MonsieurL: <vonKrolock> I'm not French; French-Canadian-American :) We're the product of the old monarchy ;)

Imagine having to translate games... I just use find and replace. :)

There is a heavy Arabic influence in the Turkish language... <a>at IS because double vowels are Arabic. :)

Jan-15-05  meloncio: <vonKrolock> Some people here say 'alfil' may come from 'alférez' (today a military rank, second Lieutenant), that in old Spanish meant 'flag or standard-bearer', but I prefer your version, because 'alférez' may also comes from 'al-fil'.
Jan-15-05  vonKrolock: <MonsieurL> ok, even so - soyez le bienvenu! (i explained somewhere that to speak -write- in French is easier for me than in English - pour cause: France-Spain-Portugal-Brazil)

<meloncio> Here "alferes" is an archaic term that designated also a military rank - outdated, but quite alive, for instance, in the bio of some historic personages (by the way - one of the streets that i parcours every day here is 'Rua Alferes Ângelo Sampaio'... ) I believe that it comes also from the Arabian, but from quite a different word - suddenly i realize that maybe "al-faras" : by the way the Chess piece that we call cavalo/caballo: possibly a Knight (so perhaps a military rank too)!! - ¡¿ que te parece?!

Jan-15-05  meloncio: <vonKrolock> Muito obrigado, senhor. It's a very interesting question, because Knight/Horse have in Spanish similar sounds (Caballero/Caballo), and Caballería (Cavalry) is an arm today outdated, but the name still exists in the Army.

BTW, I read that in XVI century our today rook (torre) was called 'roque', but I don't know when they changed the name. Perhaps when the 'castling' (enroque) began to be known and used by the same time, more or less.

Jan-15-05  Benzol: <matein8> found a good link about the names of pieces http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquar...
Jan-16-05  vonKrolock: <Benzol> Great link, whith fonts for Russian, Greek, Hebrew, Arabian etc

<meloncio> Here - in fairly good Portuguese - a neat explanation for "alférez": <Alferes é de origem árabe («al-faris», «cavaleiro escudeiro») e normalmente era o porta-bandeira.>

Apr-23-05
Premium Chessgames Member
  offramp: Whenever I see his name I think of 'Sad Sack'.
Jan-03-06  BIDMONFA: Darmen Sadvakasov

SADVAKASOV, Darmen
http://www.bidmonfa.com/sadvakasov_...

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Aug-06-06  twinlark: <BIDMONFA>

Have you ever thought of expanding the history on your site of World Championships results to the World Age championships? For example the Under 10, Under 12, U14, U16 etc championships, for boys and girls, as well as the Open and Senior championships?

Sep-19-06
Premium Chessgames Member
  chancho: Here's an interview he gave to chesscafe.com

http://www.chesscafe.com/misha/mish...

Apr-16-07  gambitfan: Where is his biography?
Apr-16-07  iron maiden: Here's everything I could find on him.
Apr-17-07  gambitfan: where???
Nov-26-07  I3illieJoe: He just won the National Chess Congress tournament. He is my friend's friend. I talked to him and he is very nice and so humble for being such a great player. We even exchanged #s. That's how approachable and nice he is. Congratulations Darmen !
Mar-29-08  Karpova: Sadvakasov managed to stay undefeated against Garry Kasparov in their two encounters at astana 2001:

Kasparov vs Sadvakasov, 2001
Sadvakasov vs Kasparov, 2001

Jul-14-08  whiteshark: <Karpova: <Sadvakasov managed to stay undefeated against Garry Kasparov in their two encounters at astana 2001>> That's even more impressive as Kasparov - after losing 'his title' against Kramnik - was really 'hot', winning this cat.XX tournament with 7.0 points out of 10 games.
Sep-02-08  myschkin: . . .

Interview with <Darmen Sadvakasov>

http://www.skanderborgskakklub.dk/g...

(by Colin Watson, 10/2003)

Apr-16-09  jon01: Sadvakasov is back in top. Although it was a bit unfair, after Shulman had defeated him convincingly during the tournament.
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