Georgy Evseev

Georgy Evseev
Full name Georgy Aleksandrovich Evseev
Country Russia
Born (1962-05-28) May 28, 1962
Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
World Champion World Chess Solving Champion (1989, 1990, 1991, 1998)

Georgy Aleksandrovich Evseev (Russian: Георгий Александрович Евсеев; born 28 May 1962) is a Russian chess problemist.

Career

Evseev won four times the Soviet Union Chess Solving Championship (1982, 1984, 1986, 1989). He is the first chess player to win three times in a row the individual World Chess Solving Championship: 1989, 1990 and 1991. In 1998 he repeated the success for the fourth time.[1][2][3] In 1991 Evseev gained the title of International Solving Grandmaster.[4] In 2014 he convincingly won the Russia Chess Solving Championship.[5] In 2015 Evseev won the European Chess Solving Championship in Iași, Romania.[6] As of January 2016, he is the leader of the WFCC solvers’ ranking.[7]

References

  1. ↑ 13. WCSC BOURNEMOUTH 22.-23.8.1989. WFCC.
  2. ↑ 14. WCSC BENIDORM 25.-26.9.1990. WFCC.
  3. ↑ 15. WCSC ROTTERDAM 6.-7.8.1991. WFCC.
  4. ↑ Solving grandmasters. WFCC.
  5. ↑ (in Russian) Георгий Евсеев выиграл чемпионат России по решению. Russian Chess Federation.
  6. ↑ Georgy Evseev Wins the European Solving Championship. Russian Chess Federation.
  7. ↑ Solvers’ ratings January 1st 2016. WFCC.
  • Georgy Evseev chess games and profile at Chess-DB.com
  • Georgy Evseev problems at the Chess Problem Database Server
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