Evgeny Tomashevsky
Evgeny Tomashevsky,[1] born 1 July 1987 in Saratov, is a Russian chess grandmaster. In 2001 he won the U18 Russian championship in Rybinsk with 9/10 and in 2004 he became second in the U18 World Youth Chess Championship. In 2007 he became second in the Aeroflot Open.
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| Full name | Evgeny Tomashevsky |
| Country | Russia |
| Born | Saratov, Russian SFSR, USSR |
| Title | Grandmaster |
| FIDE rating | 2738 (#15 in the May 2012 FIDE World Rankings) |
| Peak rating | 2740 (November 2011) |
In 2009 Tomashevsky won the 10th European Individual Chess Championship after tie-breaks. The decisive match against Vladimir Malakhov went into armageddon,[2] where Malakhov blundered a rook in a winning position.
He was a member of the gold-medal-winning Russian team at the World Team Chess Championship 2009 in Bursa.[3] In 2011, he tied for 1st-3rd with Nikita Vitiugov and Le Quang Liem in the Aeroflot Open.[4]
Tomashevsky's style of play is described as being mostly positional.
References
change- ↑ Russian: Евгений Томашевский
- ↑ a version of blitz chess
- ↑ Crawley, Gavin (2010-01-13). "Bursa: Russia wins Gold, USA Silver, India Bronze". ChessBase. Retrieved 4 May 2010.
- ↑ "Aeroflot open 2011 A". World Chess Federation. Retrieved 20 March 2011.
Other websites
change- Final standings of the WYCC2004
- Interview with the European Champion Evgeny Tomashevsky ChessBase.com
- Interview with the European Chess Champion Evgeny Tomashevsky Archived 2017-02-05 at the Wayback Machine Chessdom