DANIIL DUBOV (born Apr-18-1996, 29 years old) Russia PRONUNCIATION: [what is this?] Daniil Dubov became an FM in 2008, an IM in 2010 and a GM on 28 March 2011, aged 14 years 11 months and 14 days. GM Dubov is a rising young Russian star who has played with great consistency since he commenced playing competition. He was previously coached by GM Sergey Dolmatov. His current coach is GM Sergei Yuryevich Shipov (1), who described Dubov’s style as being akin to that of Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian. (2) Championships Dubov has an impressive array of age-based competition results under his belt, frequently fighting above his “weight” in a manner reminiscent of Teimour Radjabov. Starting with 3rd place at the U10 Championship of Russia in 2006 and =2nd in the European U10 championship 2006, he came =3rd at the Moscow U16 Open in 2006, 2nd at the Moscow U16 in 2007, =4th in the Moscow U18 Championship, was runner-up on count back in the U12 European Championship in 2008 behind co-leader, the recently retired Kiprian Berbatov, and runner up at the U16 Russian Championship of 2009. At the 12th European Individual Championship (2011), he scored 6/11 against 9 GMs and an IM to gain his 3rd GM norm (details of other norms below) and in the following year, he stunned the field to come =1st (2nd on tiebreak) in the Russian Chess Championship Higher League (2012) with 7.5/11 to qualify for the Russian Superfinals (2012) in which, at his first attempt, he scored a highly creditable 4/9 (-1 =8), only a point behind the six co-leaders in a low scoring contest; it also pushed his live rating to above 2600 for the first time. He scored 7.5/11, half a point from the lead, in the European Individual Championship (2013) placing =11th and qualifying for the World Cup (2013) where he defeated Sergey Fedorchuk in the first round by 2-0 and in one of the shocks of the World Cup, eliminated former FIDE World Champion and Ukrainian GM Ruslan Ponomariov in the Armageddon blitz tiebreaker in the second round. However, he was eliminated when he lost to Ukrainian GM Anton Korobov in the third round. He competed in the European Individual Championship (2014), and while he scored a reasonably solid 6.5/11, it was insufficient for a place or for qualification into the World Cup of 2015. In July 2015, Dubov finished 5th on tiebreak at the Russian Higher League Championship and thereby qualified to compete in the Russian Superfinal in August 2015. Tournaments At the age of ten, Dubov played in the Moscow Team Championships of 2006, recording his first win against an international master, Aleksei Kireev. He competed at the Aeroflot Tournament in the C Division in 2007, scoring 6/9. He scored 5/9 at the Moscow Summer Open 2007. In 2008, Dubov came 2nd with 8/11 in the Black Sea Coast Trophy International Open at the Eforie Nord and =3rd at the David Bronstein Memorial 2008 Open. His 5/9 at the 2009 Aeroflot Open A2 while still 12 years old won him his 1st IM norm. His second IM norm followed when he won the 7th Vanya Somov Memorial World’s Youth Stars competition ahead of a galaxy of talented young stars including GM Aleksandr Shimanov. He bagged his 3rd IM norm the same year when he scored 5/9 in the World Chess Tour - 4th GM Tournament when he secured a draw against former Champion of Azerbaijan, GM Rufat Bagirov , in the last round, also registering his first win against a GM - Rashid Agiliaevich Ziatdinov. After coming =4th in the Moscow Championship of 2010 with 7/9, he scored 6/9 against a powerful field in the 14th Voronezh 2010 Masters, with an even score against 6 GMs (+1 -1 =4) and defeating the rest of his opponents to win his 1st GM norm. His 6/9 at the 2nd International Chess Tournament of Rethymno in Greece was followed by 5/9 against 9 GMs in the 2011 Aeroflot Open 5/9 rated between 2621 and 2689, a feat which earned him his 2nd GM norm. His 3rd GM norm came with the abovementioned positive 6/11 result in the European Individual Championship of 2011 against opponents that included nine grandmasters, all rated over 2600. Dubov started 2012 by scoring 6.5/9 at the Moscow Open, placing =4th, and soon after scored 4.5/9 at the Aeroflot Open (2012). He followed up with some excellent results in the 2012 Moscow Championship where he came 2nd with 7/9 (including a win over the tournament leader former U18 World Champion Ivan Popov). In January 2013, he placed outright 5th at the Tata Steel Group B (2013) with 7.5/13. In February 2014, he scored a solid 6/9 at the Bronstein Memorial (2014) and in November-December 2014, a more or less rating neutral 4.5/9 at the powerful Qatar Masters (2014). He finished 2014 with 2/4 in the Nutcracker Match of the Generations (2014) and 3/8 at the Nutcracker rapid, both results again being close to the rating-neutral. 2015 saw him take =1st alongside Ian Nepomniachtchi at the Aeroflot Open (2015), scoring 7/9 and placing 2nd on tiebreak (wins with Black). Team events In 2009, Dubov won a bronze medal playing board 2 for the gold medal winning Russian team at the 8th World U16 Olympiad in Akhisar in Turkey and in the 2011 edition of this event held in Kocaeli (also in Turkey), won a bronze on the top board with his team again taking gold. (3) In the Russian Premier League of 2012, Dubov won bronze playing board 3 for Navigator Moscow, which placed 8th - he played 7 games for a +3 =3 -1 result, stacking up a TPR of 2683. In addition, he scored 4.5/7 for his team ShSM RGSU in the Russian Team Championship (2012) (aka the Russian Premier League), including a victory over Cuban super-GM Leinier Dominguez Perez. (4) In the 2014 season of the Russian Premier League, he won team silver and in 2015 individual bronze. (4a) In the 2013-14 Bundesliga, Dubov playing board 3 for SK Turm Emsdetten, which ended up placing 8th out of 16 teams. (5) In 2014, he played for the Ankara Demirspor club in the Turkish Super League, helping his team to 7th place out of 13 teams, leading from top board with a strong 7/12. He also played board 6 with the powerful Russian team ShSM RGSU in the European Club Cup (2014), placing a respectable 4th for his board and assisting his team to =4th (6th on tiebreak). In the 2014-15 Bundesliga, Dubov is playing board 2 for SK Turm Emsdetten. Rapid and Blitz An expert blitz player at an early age, Dubov won the U10 rapid chess championship of Russia in 2005, was runner-up in the same event in 2006, second in the European U10 rapid chess championship of 2006, second in the European U12 rapid chess championship in 2008 and champion of Moscow at the U18 lightning tournament in 2008. He also won the 2011 Moscow Rapid. His campaign in the rejigged Aeroflot Rapid Open (2013) was auspicious, scoring 6.5/9 in the main rapid, albeit losing the playoff for a place in the final to Abhijeet Gupta, while scoring 12.5/18 (=12th) in the blitz event picking up 70 blitz points. His best effort so far came in June 2013 when he placed 7th in the FIDE World Blitz Championship (2013) where he scored 18/30. He placed 2nd at the Norges Rafisklag Blitz 2013 behind Anish Giri and scored 8.5/11 in the European Rapid Championship held in Poland in December 2013. Soon afterwards he scored an excellent 16.5/22 at the European Blitz Championship, placing =4th behind Anton Korobov, Vladislav Ivanovich Tkachiev and Bartosz Socko. In May 2014, he contested the Russian rapid championship, scoring a par-for-rating 5/9, a point and a half behind the winner, Pavel Maletin. His 8/15 at the FIDE World Rapid Championship (2014) was enough to stack on another 27 points to his rapid rating while his 12/21 at the FIDE World Blitz Championship (2014) was below expectation. 10/19 at the Moscow Championship Final A Blitz was also below expectation, causing him to shed 30 blitz rating points. Match In December 2013, Dubov played a best-of-six match, the Battle of the Generations (2013), against former World Champion Challenger Alexey Shirov in Moscow and lost by 1-5 (=2 -4). Ratings and rankings Dubov’s highest rating to date(May 20, 2018) was 2701 in March 2018. He entered the top 100 for the first time in May 2015 when he was rated 2659. Sources and references (1) Interview by Ipatov with Dubov held in December 2011: http://www.chessdom.com/interview-w... (2) Shipov: "Daniil was initially a very solid, positional player in Petrosian’s style, but our common goal is to develop him into a truly universal player.": http://chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp...; (3) http://www.olimpbase.org/playerswy/...; (4) http://www.olimpbase.org/playersru/...; (4a) http://www.olimpbase.org/playersru/...; (5) http://www.schachbund.de/SchachBL/b... Wikipedia article: Daniil Dubov Last updated: 2018-05-20 20:28:21

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page 1 of 68; games 1-25 of 1,678  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. Dubov vs I Nyzhnyk 0-1 44 2006 EU-ch U10 B01 Scandinavian 2. Dubov vs I Beradze   1-0 25 2006 EU-ch U10 B15 Caro-Kann 3. I Beradze vs Dubov   0-1 38 2007 EU-ch U12 17th B40 Sicilian 4. I Nyzhnyk vs Dubov   1-0 47 2007 17th EU-ch U12 Boys B40 Sicilian 5. Dubov vs O Gorbanovsky   1-0 46 2008 EU-ch U12 18th C53 Giuoco Piano 6. L Kessler vs Dubov   0-1 37 2008 EU-ch U12 18th D34 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch 7. Dubov vs M Bryakin   1-0 54 2008 EU-ch U12 18th B12 Caro-Kann Defense 8. A Boruchovsky vs Dubov   0-1 45 2008 EU-ch U12 18th B22 Sicilian, Alapin 9. J Santos Latasa vs Dubov   0-1 35 2008 EU-ch U12 18th D30 Queen's Gambit Declined 10. K Tomsia vs Dubov   ½-½ 31 2008 EU-ch U12 18th D31 Queen's Gambit Declined 11. Dubov vs O Bortnyk   0-1 34 2008 EU-ch U12 18th B22 Sicilian, Alapin 12. Dubov vs D Gershkowich   ½-½ 39 2009 Moscow Open-A B76 Sicilian, Dragon, Yugoslav Attack 13. S Yudin vs Dubov   1-0 27 2009 Moscow Open-A D30 Queen's Gambit Declined 14. Dubov vs E Guseinov   1-0 26 2009 Moscow Open-A B07 Pirc 15. A Bezgodov vs Dubov   1-0 27 2009 Moscow Open-A B50 Sicilian 16. Dubov vs E Sidorovsky   1-0 30 2009 Moscow Open-A B30 Sicilian 17. A Chernobay vs Dubov   1-0 22 2009 Moscow Open-A C45 Scotch Game 18. Dubov vs V Kovalev   ½-½ 23 2009 Young Stars of the World B30 Sicilian 19. S Narayanan vs Dubov   1-0 38 2009 Young Stars of the World B67 Sicilian, Richter-Rauzer Attack, 7...a6 Defense, 8...Bd7 20. Dubov vs V Fedoseev   1-0 39 2009 Young Stars of the World B12 Caro-Kann Defense 21. V Belous vs Dubov   0-1 34 2009 Young Stars of the World B10 Caro-Kann 22. Dubov vs I Bukavshin   ½-½ 20 2009 Young Stars of the World B11 Caro-Kann, Two Knights, 3...Bg4 23. A Ganichev vs Dubov   0-1 28 2009 Young Stars of the World B47 Sicilian, Taimanov (Bastrikov) Variation 24. Dubov vs Y Chan   1-0 40 2009 Young Stars of the World C55 Two Knights Defense 25. A Stukopin vs Dubov   0-1 45 2009 Young Stars of the World B24 Sicilian, Closed  page 1 of 68; games 1-25 of 1,678

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< Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 2 OF 6 ·  Later Kibitzing> Aug-16-13    BlackFront: He's got the coolest name in chess. Aug-16-13    mini cooper s: Congratulation!!! for going to the next round. Aug-16-13    SoUnwiseTheKnight B4: Congratulations to GM Dubov on his win today. This dangerous barracuda will no doubt very soon be making the upgrade to bloated goldfish. Aug-16-13    galdur: Fish term is insulting when discussing chess grandmasters. Aug-16-13    perfidious: <galdur>: Agreed, but in this case I rather believe the 'bloated goldfish' comment is an ironic reference to all the rubbish spewed by <tolengoof> and his various socks. Aug-16-13    galdur: <perfidious> Yep, certainly it comes from the fishes themselves. To me Mr. Dubov looks more like a Siberian Grizzly or perhaps wolf. Aug-16-13    waustad: Excellent result today! I would be happier to see a new Tal than a new Leko, but a Petrosian would be lots of fun. Let us mere mortals try to figure out why giving up the exchange was the right choice. Aug-16-13    Conrad93: I'm not trolling. I just don't find his chess that original or interesting, but whatever comforts you at night... Aug-16-13    twinlark: Yes you are trolling, continuing your obnoxious practice of disrespecting grandmasters. Aug-16-13    Conrad93: I'm sure he is good, but he is certainly not the next World Champion. You hear this way too often. He's just another clone. Aug-17-13    twinlark: <I'm sure he is good, but he is certainly not the next World Champion.> There you go with more trolling. Only one person is going to be the next World Champion, not every prospect that comes into sight. Do you think that: (a) everyone doesn't already know that and (b) it's no reason to disrespect any player, let alone a grandmaster? It's entirely possible - remembering that in the 40 years since Fischer was World Champion, there have been only four new World Champions in the classical tradition - that the next twenty years will see only two or three (maybe even only one) new World Champions. Does that make every other player with ambitions to the crown chopped chicken food? <You hear this way too often. He's just another clone.> Then criticise the people making these assertions. Derogatory labeling of a young GM because you think his supporters are too enthusiastic is aiming at the wrong target. That should be abundantly clear from the fanatic trolls at the Wesley So page that deface this site. As much as they try everyone's patience, no one criticises Wesley So because of the messianic hype and trolling in which some of his so-called supporters engage. Your comments are all the more strange in this context because there is no evidence of fanatic trolling or anything other than a few admiring comments from random kibitzers on the subject of Dubov. What does put your comments about Dubov into context, however, is your long standing practice of disrespecting elite players since you have come to this website. Aug-17-13    Dionysius1: Hi <twinlark>. I think you're contributing to the dilution of the effect of calling people "trolls". Here's a quotation from yesterday's The Guardian about it. <The word once had quite a specialised meaning limited to a particular sort of disruptive behaviour, but it has now become a catch-all term to describe any behaviour that some journalists and editors deem inappropriate. Their responses to what they call “trolling” often seem less about combating abuse than reasserting their role as gatekeeper, to restore to themselves the right to decide who gets to speak in public and who doesn’t.> http://www.theguardian.com/commenti... Aug-17-13    perfidious: <twinlark>: This is another fine young player with a big future: doesn't matter one whit what <Conrad>, that pimple on CG's fundament, has to say. Aug-17-13    Dionysius1: Hi <twinlark>. I think you're contributing to the dilution of the effect of calling people "trolls". Here's a quotation from yesterday's The Guardian about it. <The word once had quite a specialised meaning limited to a particular sort of disruptive behaviour, but it has now become a catch-all term to describe any behaviour that some journalists and editors deem inappropriate. Their responses to what they call “trolling” often seem less about combating abuse than reasserting their role as gatekeeper, to restore to themselves the right to decide who gets to speak in public and who doesn’t.> And here's the source http://www.theguardian.com/commenti... Aug-17-13    twinlark: <Dionysius1: Hi <twinlark>. I think you're contributing to the dilution of the effect of calling people "trolls".> If my criticism was only about his post here, then you might have a point, but Conrad93 has a long history of pissing people off in this site with his egregious, vainglorious and repetitively stupid put-downs of elite players. Also, what <perfidious> said. Aug-17-13    Abdel Irada: I would say that <Conrad93> is a troll by any standard, including the primary definition. He is not posting to make a point; he is doing so to get attention by provoking a reaction, not to the topic of the discussion, but to his posts as such. I have already demonstrated in past conversations with <C93> that he is of mediocre chess understanding; this in itself would cause most prudent non-trolls to think long and hard before ridiculing world-class players. That he does so anyway, without the least evidence of reflection, marks his efforts as trolling. ∞ Aug-17-13    Troller: Apparently Dubov is the next World Cup winner, going by the Lex Pono. Congratulations! Aug-17-13    whiteshark: <Troller> Lex Pono evidences, until proof of the contrary. ;D Aug-18-13    Conrad93: I was not trolling. Trolling is a very specific act. Criticism of Wesley So is also not trolling. The kid is good, but like any other child prodigy he will be an overall ordinary player in the future. Aug-18-13    Conrad93: The constant delcarations that he is the next Capablanca is getting annoying. Aug-18-13    Jim Bartle: He's the next Capablanca! Aug-18-13    JoergWalter: <Aug-18-13 Jim Bartle: He's the next Capablanca!> there is similarity - look at the hair, the nose and chin... Aug-18-13    SoUnwiseTheKnight B4: I thought Magnus was the next Capablanca :( Its sad he couldn't even hold it until November. Will the Norwegian settle for being the next Smyslov? That title is up for grabs. Aug-18-13    twinlark: They're both the next Capablanca. Aug-18-13    tamar: Daniil ain't just a river in Egypt. Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 6) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 2 OF 6 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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