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Thursday, March 12, 2020

Artur Yusupov

     Yusupov (aka Artur Jussupow) was born February 13, 1960 in Moscow, and is GM, chess writer and coach. 
     Yusupov learned to play chess at the age of six and trained at the Young Pioneers' Palace in Moscow. He won the World Junior Championship in 1977, which automatically qualified for the IM title and he was awarded the GM title in 1980. 
     He finished second in his first USSR Championship in 1979 (behind Efim Geller) and for the next 10 years he enjoyed a lot of success in international tournaments. 
     According to Chessmetrics, between March 1986 and May 1987 Yusupov was ranked number three in the world on 12 different months. 
     He reached the semi-final of the Candidates Tournament on three occasions: in 1986 (defeated by Andrei Sokolov), 1989 (defeated by Anatoly Karpov) and 1992 (defeated by Jan Timman). 
     In May of 1990 he returned to his Moscow apartment after finishing second at the SKA tournament in Munich. He was carrying a large amount of cash and shortly after arriving home armed thieves came to his apartment and proceeded to rob him of money and other valuables and although Yusopov put up no resistance, one of the thieves discharged a shotgun into his stomach. Yusopov considered himself lucky to have survived. Soon after, he decided to move to Germany, which has remained his home. 
     After that experience his (Chessmetrics) rating gradually slipped and by the early 2000s he was no longer in the world’s top twenty. 
     In 1999, Yusupov was acknowledged as the leading authority on Petrov’s Defense and his opening book on it was considered the most comprehensive available. He is also an expert on Lasker’s Defense in the QGD. 
     According to GM Alexei Suetin described Yuspov as "a player with a rational, positional style. He boasts high technical skill in the endgame and detailed knowledge of his customary opening systems. Least of all does he rely on inspiration; his every move is based on industrious study." 
     Throughout his playing career, Yusupov has been coached and mentored by Mark Dvoretsky, considered to be the world's leading chess trainers. As a result they established he Dvoretsky–Yusupov Chess School. Students of the school have included strong grandmasters Peter Svidler, Sergei Movsesian and Vadim Zvjaginsev. 
     In 2005, Yusupov was awarded the title of FIDE Senior Trainer. Yusupov has also been a frequent contributor to Dvoretsky's books and has been a second and advisor to both Viswanathan Anand and Peter Leko during their world championship campaigns. 

Watch an interesting interview with Yusupov on Youtube 

In the following game from the 1981 USSR Championship Yusupov concludes it with a surprising little tactical shot.

Final standings:
1-2 Psakhis and Beliavsky 10.5 
3-5) Balashov, Romanishin and Yusupov 10.0 
6-8) Dolmatov, Kupreichik and Kuzmin 9.5 
9-10) Tseshkovsky and Vaganian 9.0 
11-12) Rashkovsky and Vasiukov 8.5 
13) Makarichev 7.5 
14-15) Geller and Georgadze 6.5 
16-17) Lputian and Razuvaev 6.0 
18) Chekhov 5.5

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