Sergei Rublevsky
| Sergei Rublevsky | |
|---|---|
 Sergei Rublevsky (at right) with Alexander Motylev at the Turin Olympiad 2006 | |
| Full name | Сергей Владимирович Рублевский |
| Country |  Russia |
| Born | October 15, 1974 Kurgan, Russian SFSR, USSR |
| Title | Grandmaster |
| FIDE rating | 2704 (No. 34 on the May 2010 FIDE ratings list) |
| Peak rating | 2704 (May 2010) |
Sergei Rublevsky (born 15 October 1974) is a Russian chess grandmaster (1994). He became champion of the prestigious Aeroflot Open in 2004, and he became the 58th Russian chess champion after winning brilliantly and unexpectedly the Russian Superfinal in Moscow (18–30 December 2005), one point clear from Dmitry Jakovenko and Alexander Morozevich.[1]
He finished in the top 10 in the 2005 FIDE World Cup, which qualified him for the Candidates Tournament for the FIDE World Chess Championship 2007, played in May–June 2007. He defeated Ruslan Ponomariov 3.5-2.5 in the first round. In the second round he played Alexander Grischuk. The match was tied 3-3, but Grischuk won the rapid playoff 2.5-0.5, eliminating Rublevsky from the championship.
Style
GM Nigel Short said of Rublevsky, "Rublevsky is not a sexy player. There are younger and more gifted individuals around and he knows it. Yet he has canniness, which the greenhorns don't. He does not engage the teenagers on the sharp end of opening theory, testing his ailing memory against the freshness of their computer-assisted analysis. Instead he heads a little off the beaten track - not exactly to the jungle, but to lesser-travelled byways where his experience counts."[2]
GM Alexander Morozevich has said, "... my opening repertoire is not any ‘weirder’ than, say, that of Rublevsky."[3]
With White, Rublevsky plays 1.e4 the overwhelming percentage of the time.[4]
Against 1...e5, which is Anand's usual but not exclusive first move, Rublevsky plays the Scotch. Against 1...c5, Rublevsky sometimes goes for Open Sicilians, but he has a couple of non-Open pet lines: 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.Bb5+ and 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.c4. Against the French and Caro-Kann, he plays 2.d4 followed by 3.Nd2.
With Black, he meets 1.e4 with Kan/Paulsen/Taimanov Sicilians; against 1.d4 he generally plays the QGA and the occasional Slav.[5]
Notable games
- Sergei Rublevsky vs Garry Kasparov, 20th European Club Cup 2004, Sicilian Defense: Nyezhmetdinov-Rossolimo Attack (B30), 1-0
- Sergei Rublevsky vs Alexey Dreev, Russian Championship Superfinal 2005, Sicilian Defense: Nyezhmetdinov-Rossolimo Attack (B30), 1-0
- Sergei Rublevsky vs Pentala Harikrishna, Aerosvit GM Tournament 2006, Sicilian Defense: Canal Attack (B51), 1-0
- Sergei Rublevsky vs Ruslan Ponomariov, Candidates Match: Ponomariov-Rublevsky 2007, Caro-Kann Defense: Bronstein-Larsen Variation (B16), 1/2-1/2
References
- ^ "Rublevsky wins 58th Russian Championship". ChessBase.com. 2005-12-30. Retrieved 28 March 2011.
- ^ Short, Nigel (2006-06-29). "Nigel Short The king and I". The Guardian. Retrieved 28 March 2011.
- ^ "GM Alexander Morozevich Interviews". GM Square. Retrieved 28 March 2011.
- ^ "The chess games of Sergei Rublevsky". ChessGames.com. Retrieved 28 March 2011.
- ^ http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1223682138.shtml
External links
- Chessbase article on Russian Championship
- Sergei Rublevsky rating card at FIDE
- Sergei Rublevsky player profile and games at Chessgames.com