Tseshkovsky wins Agzamov Memorial
In the same week when Korchnoi turned 78 and Smyslov 88, another famous veteran had a notable success: 64-year-old GM Vitaly Tseshkovsky from Russia won the strong Georgy Azgamov Memorial in Tashkent, ahead of GMs like Kasimdzhanov, Amonatov and Volkov.
The 3rd Georgy Azgamov Memorial took place 15-26 March in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan. The strongest player from Uzbekistan is of course former FIDE World Champion Rustam Kasimdzhanov, but another well-known player is their number two, Anton Filippov. Both played in the Azgamov Memorial but it was Vitaly Tseshkovsky who finished clear first with 7.5/9.
Tseshkovsky won the 1986 USSR Championship finishing clear first, after he had won it shared with Mikhail Tal in 1978. In 2004 he managed to qualify for the Russian Championship Super final which was eventuall won by Garry Kasparov.
Below are all games by Tseshkovsky from the Agzamov memorial. Unfortunately the game against Volkov seems to be incomplete.
(Full final standings here.)
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Peter Doggers
2 years 10 months ago
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So what's the point of "correcting" such a "fact" if we're talking about an inactive player? (Using the list of top rated Uzbek players at the Uzbekistan Chess Federation's website in the right column seemed like a reasonable source to me.)
Thomas
2 years 10 months ago
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Right, I was missing the link to the previous comment ... .
Peter Doggers
2 years 10 months ago
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It seems you're missing the point here, Thomas...
Thomas
2 years 10 months ago
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HJVFan, Read the article ... :
"In 2004 he [Tseshkovsky] managed to qualify for the Russian Championship Super final which was eventuall won by Garry Kasparov."
HJVFan
2 years 10 months ago
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Perhaps you should mention Kasparov too, Peter, every time you're talking about strong Russian chess players...
Fact
2 years 10 months ago
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Your article is factually incorrect. The number two in Uzbekistan is Gareev, although it is true that he didn't play for them in the recent Olympiad...
sundararajan ganesan
2 years 10 months ago
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cheskovsky's triumph shows the versatile nature of chess ---- fit for both young and old ! on the one hand we have prodigies like carlsen, caruana, humpy etc. on the other hand we have ever green veterans like korchnoi, smyslov and ....it seems cheskovsky! cheskovsky has two wins over world champion anand! the first in the GM Tournament at Kolkata, 1986! (the tournament was won by Agzamov!) ; cheskovsky played ruy lopez , bird's variation against vishy, (even at that time the hope of India!) ; later he beat Vishy in one of the Wiz kanzee tournaments (1988, i think; the tournament was jointly won by Ribli, Sax and Vishy) ; this time too Cheskovsky was on the black side of Ruy Lopez, but not the bird's variation!
s.ganesan
pudukkottai, South India
Ariel
2 years 10 months ago
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Ok, enough bickering... this triumph is great news for us all! Because, you know, we all carry an old person inside...
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