Ernesto Inarkiev

Ernesto Inarkiev
Inarkiev at European Club Cup, 2008
Country Kyrgyzstan
Russia
Born (1985-12-09) 9 December 1985
Osh Region, Kirghiz SSR, Soviet Union
Title Grandmaster (2002)
FIDE rating 2691 (October 2018)
Peak rating 2732 (September 2016)

Ernesto Inarkiev (Russian: Эрнесто Инаркиев; born 9 December 1985) is a Russian chess grandmaster, the first ever from Kalmykia.[1] He was European champion in 2016.

Early life and career

Inarkiev, who was named after Ernesto "Che" Guevara,[2] was born in the Osh Region, Kyrgyzstan[1] (then part of the Soviet Union). He played for his native country in two Chess Olympiads: in 1998 and 2000. In 1999, he won the Asian under-16 championship and the Kyrgyz championship.[1] He switched to the Russian Chess Federation in 2000,[3] accepting Kirsan Ilyumzhinov's offer to move to Elista with his family.[1]

Inarkiev won the Under-16 division of the European Youth Chess Championship in 2001.[4] In 2002, Inarkiev won the Russian junior (under-20) championship.[5]

He competed in the FIDE World Championship 2004, where he was knocked out in the first round by Leinier Dominguez. In 2006 Inarkiev finished third in the Superfinal of the 59th Russian Chess Championship,[6] for which he qualified by winning the Russian Championship Higher League earlier in the same year.[7] He took part in the first FIDE Grand Prix series from 2008 to 2010 as host city nominee of Elista. In 2010 he tied for 1st–4th with Konstantin Chernyshov, Lê Quang Liêm and Evgeny Bareev in the Moscow Open (ru),[8] and placed third in the 14th Anatoly Karpov International Chess Tournament (pl) in Poikovsky, Russia.[9] Inarkiev won the Baku Open in 2014 edging out Constantin Lupulescu on tiebreak score.[10][11] In 2015, he won the Moscow Open scoring 8/9 points[12] and shared third place with Emil Sutovsky and Denis Khismatullin in the 16th Poikovsky Karpov Tournament.[13] In May 2016 he won the 17th European Individual Chess Championship in Gjakova, Kosovo.[14][15]

In the World Blitz Championship in 2017, Inarkiev was involved in a controversial incident in his game with Magnus Carlsen. During the game, Inarkiev made an illegal move by checking Carlsen, instead of dealing with a check against his own king. Instead of claiming the game on the basis of the illegal move, a standard rule in blitz chess, Carlsen quickly moved his king out of check. Inarkiev claimed a win, arguing that Carlsen had acted illegally by not capturing his king. [16] Initially the arbiter awarded the game to Inarkiev, but was overruled by the chief arbiter, who ordered that the game should resume from the point before the initial illegal move. Inarkiev refused, so the game was declared a win for Carlsen. After the next round, Inarkiev filed an appeal but it was rejected. [17]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Ernesto Inarkev". Tashir Chess. Retrieved 2 September 2015.
  2. ↑ New in Chess, 2006/7. Hail, young and unknown tribe!, p.66
  3. ↑ Player transfers in 2000. FIDE.
  4. ↑ Jugend-Europameisterschaft U16 Burschen. chess-results.com.
  5. ↑ Crowther, Mark (18 March 2002). "TWIC 384: Russian Junior Championships". The Week in Chess. Retrieved 2 September 2015.
  6. ↑ "Evgeny Alekseev, 21, wins Russian Superfinal". ChessBase. 2006-12-16. Retrieved 2016-05-21.
  7. ↑ Kryakvin, Dmitry (2015-06-22). "From East to West". Russian Chess Federation. Retrieved 2016-05-21.
  8. ↑ "Chernyshov wins Moscow Open 2010". ChessBase. 2010-02-08. Retrieved 2 May 2010.
  9. ↑ "Poikovsky Final: Eljanov at the top". ChessBase. 6 September 2013. Retrieved 2 September 2015.
  10. ↑ Martínez, David (2014-10-01). "Inarkiev wins photo finish at Baku Open". Chess24.
  11. ↑ Silver, Albert (2014-10-03). "Strong Baku Open is won by Inarkiev". ChessBase.
  12. ↑ Ernesto Inarkiev convincing in Moscow Open 2015. Chessdom
  13. ↑ "GM Anton Korobov wins 16th Poikovsky's Karpov chess tournament". Chessdom. 2015-10-07. Retrieved 21 May 2016.
  14. ↑ "Ernesto Inarkiev is the 2016 European Champion". Chess News. 2016-05-24. Retrieved 2017-01-22.
  15. ↑ "Ernesto Inarkiev convincing winner of 2016 European Chess Championship". Chessdom. 2016-05-24. Retrieved 2017-01-22.
  16. ↑ "World Blitz - Day 1: Karjakin and Cramling grab lead". Chess News. 2017-12-30. Retrieved 2017-12-31.
  17. ↑ "Karjakin Leads World Blitz Halfway; Carlsen 2 Points Behind". Chess.com. Retrieved 30 December 2017.
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