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In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Dmitrievich and the family name is Dubov.

Daniil Dubov
Dubov in 2018
Full nameDaniil Dmitrievich Dubov
CountryRussia
Born (1996-04-18) 18 April 1996 (age 28)
Moscow, Russia
TitleGrandmaster (2011)
FIDE rating2693 (December 2024)
Peak rating2720 (December 2021)
RankingNo. 40 (December 2024)
Peak rankingNo. 24 (December 2021)

Daniil Dmitrievich Dubov (Template:Lang-ru; born 18 April 1996) is a Russian chess grandmaster. He achieved his final norm for the Grandmaster title at the age of 14 years, 11 months, 14 days in 2011.[1] He is the previous world rapid champion, winning the World Rapid Chess Championship held in Saint Petersburg from 26 to 28 December 2018. He is ranked 24th in the world as of December 2021.[2]

Chess career

2006

Dubov won two medals at the European Youth Chess Championships: a bronze in 2006, in the U-10 division, and a silver in 2008, in the U-12.

2009

In 2009 he won the Young Stars of the World - Vanya Somov Memorial in Kirishi.[3] In the same year he played for the Russian team that won the gold medal in the World Youth Under-16 Chess Olympiad. Dubov also won the individual bronze medal on board two.

He won the Russian U16 rapid and blitz championships of 2009.[4]

2011

Dubov played again in the World Youth Under-16 Chess Olympiad and won the team gold and the individual bronze on board one.[5] Dubov won the Moscow Rapid Chess Championship of 2011.[4]

2012

Dubov shared first place with Dmitry Andreikin and Nikita Vitiugov in the Russian Championship Higher League and qualified for the Superfinal of the Russian championship.[6] In the latter he scored 4/9 points.[7]

2013

In January, Dubov took part in the Tata Steel B tournament in Wijk aan Zee, where he scored 7½/13 points (+4-2=7) finishing fifth out of fourteen participants.[8] At the Chess World Cup 2013 he reached the third round and was eliminated by Anton Korobov, after knocking out Sergey Fedorchuk and former FIDE World Champion Ruslan Ponomariov.

In December, he played a friendly six-game match with Alexei Shirov called "Battle of Generations", which was won by the latter.[9]

2015

In April 2015, he tied for first with Ian Nepomniachtchi in the Aeroflot Open, placing second on tiebreak.[10]

2016

Dubov won the bronze medal at the World Blitz Chess Championship 2016 in Doha.[11][12][13]

2017

He won the Russian Higher League in July 2017 in Sochi, edging out Sanan Sjugirov on tiebreak.[14]

In the Russian Superfinal, which took place in St. Petersburg in December, Dubov shared 3rd-4th places with Vladimir Fedoseev, taking the bronze medal on tiebreak.[15]

2018

Dubov served as one of Magnus Carlsen's seconds for the World Chess Championship 2018.[16]

In December, Dubov won the World Rapid Chess Championship ahead of Carlsen, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov and Hikaru Nakamura.

2019

Dubov was selected as the Organizer's Nominee for the FIDE Grand Prix 2019, a stage in qualification for the World Chess Championship 2020. Dubov was enrolled in the Moscow event, the first of four tournaments for the 2019 Grand Prix cycle. The Moscow tournament was a 16-player event, with Dubov being the lowest ranked participant. After an upset victory[17] over the highest ranked player, Anish Giri. Dubov was eliminated[18] from the Moscow Grand Prix tournament in the quarter-finals by American grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura.

In November, Dubov also competed in the FIDE Grand Prix event in Hamburg. Once again he was the lowest seeded player in the tournament, but after upset wins over Teimour Radjabov and Peter Svidler, he was in the semifinals facing Jan-Krzysztof Duda. The two matches in classical time format were drawn and the match proceeded to tie-breakers. Dubov won the first rapid game (25+10) and needed only a draw to advance to the finals. He then lost what seemed to be a completely drawn endgame in the second match[19] to send the match to a second set of tie breakers (10+10). After drawing with the white pieces, Dubov was finally eliminated by Duda.[20]

2020

Dubov won the Lindores Abbey Rapid Challenge on 3 June, beating Ding Liren in semi-finals and Hikaru Nakamura in the final after the match went to Armageddon time control.[21]

Daniil Dubov defeated Magnus Carlsen in the quarter-finals of Airthings Masters with a score of 2.5-0.5 on 30 December.

2021

On 21 February, Daniil Dubov conducted a simultaneous game session at Lighthouse Children's Hospice.[22]

He again acted as a second for Magnus Carlsen in the World Chess Championship 2021 against Ian Nepomniachtchi.[23] This was criticized by Sergey Karjakin as Dubov and Nepomniachtchi are both Russian.

Notable games

  • Dubov, D. vs Svane, R. Batumi, Georgia. 2019. 22nd European Team Championship, rd 7.

Dubov finds mate in 13, in a game where his opponent's black king moves around the entire board, only to be mated on a3. [24]

  • Dubov, D. vs Karjakin, S. Moscow, Russia. 2020. Russian Championship Superfinal, rd 11.

Dubov plays a novelty gambit in the opening then later sacrifices his queen to take down a World Champion contender.[25] The game was celebrated as "the best of the year" by commentators such as GothamChess and Agadmator.

Personal life

Daniil learned chess at the age of 6.[26] Daniil Dubov's grandfather was Eduard Dubov (1938–2018),[27] an international arbiter of chess and a mathematician.[28]

References

  1. ^ Satrapa, James (7 August 2011). "Daniil Dubov, grandmaster at fourteen". ChessBase. Retrieved 8 August 2011.
  2. ^ Remolar, José. "Chess-Rankings". chess-rankings.com. Retrieved 23 June 2021.
  3. ^ Crowther, Mark (25 May 2009). "TWIC 759: Young Stars of the World". The Week in Chess. Retrieved 9 October 2015.
  4. ^ a b Ipatov, Alexander (4 December 2011). "Interview with GM Daniil Dubov". Chessdom. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
  5. ^ Bartelski, Wojciech. Daniil Dubov - World Youth U16 Chess Olympiads OlimpBase
  6. ^ Doggers, Peter (27 June 2012). "Dubov dominates Russian Ch Higher League, shares win with Andreikin & Vitiugov". ChessVibes. Retrieved 9 October 2015.
  7. ^ Crowther, Mark (13 August 2012). "65th Russian Chess Championships 2012". The Week in Chess. Retrieved 9 October 2015.
  8. ^ "Standings of grandmaster group B". Tata Steel Chess. Retrieved 9 October 2015.
  9. ^ Silver, Albert (10 December 2013). "Battle of Generations: Shirov wins 5-1". ChessBase. Retrieved 9 October 2015.
  10. ^ Ramirez, Alejandro (7 April 2015). "Aeroflot Final: Nepo victorious". ChessBase. Retrieved 9 October 2015.
  11. ^ Fischer, Johannes (30 December 2016). "Sergey Karjakin is World Blitz Champion 2016". Chess News. ChessBase. Retrieved 13 January 2017.
  12. ^ "Karjakin wins FIDE World Blitz Championship, double gold for Anna Muzychuk". Chessdom. 31 December 2016. Retrieved 13 January 2017.
  13. ^ McGourty, Colin (31 December 2016). "Doha Blitz, Day 2: Karjakin ends 2016 as champ". chess24.com. Retrieved 13 January 2017.
  14. ^ "The Week in Chess 1184". theweekinchess.com. Retrieved 11 August 2017.
  15. ^ "Peter Svidler and Aleksandra Goryachkina are 2017 Russian Champions". Chessdom. 15 December 2017. Retrieved 28 December 2017.
  16. ^ "Даниил Дубов: "Чемпионат в Саудовской Аравии - позор, за Крым - стыдно, а в России всё-таки шахматные традиции"" [Daniil Dubov: "The championship in Saudi Arabia is a shame, it’s a shame for the Crimea, but chess traditions in Russia still exist"]. chess-news.ru (in Russian). 29 December 2018. Retrieved 13 September 2019.
  17. ^ Doggers, Peter (18 May 2019). "Top GMs Exit Early After Bloody FIDE Grand Prix Day 2". Chess.com.
  18. ^ Doggers, Peter (23 May 2019). "Grischuk, Nepomniachtchi, Nakamura Advance In FIDE Grand Prix". Chess.com.
  19. ^ "Daniil Dubov vs Jan-Krzysztof Duda".
  20. ^ "Jan-Krzysztof Duda vs Daniil Dubov".
  21. ^ "Dubov wins the Lindores Abbey Rapid Challenge". Chess24. Retrieved 4 June 2020.
  22. ^ "Daniil Dubov gives masterclass at Lighthouse Children's Hospice". FIDE.
  23. ^ chess24: Magnus Carlsen reveals his World Chess Championship team!
  24. ^ "Dubov, Daniil vs. Svane, Rasmus | 22nd European Team Championship 2019". chess24.com. Retrieved 31 October 2019.
  25. ^ "Dubov, D. vs Karjakin, S. Moscow, Russia. 2020. Russian Championship Superfinal, rd 11". Chess24.
  26. ^ "Daniil Dubov: From Russia with Ideas". chess24.com. 19 May 2020. Retrieved 17 June 2020.
  27. ^ "Умер Эдуард Дубов" [Eduard Dubov dies]. chess-news.ru (in Russian). 24 December 2018. Retrieved 26 December 2018.
  28. ^ "Uncompromising Match: Shirov vs. Dubov". chess-news.ru. 2 December 2013. Retrieved 9 October 2015.
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