Vladimir Fedoseev
Vladimir Fedoseev in 2023
Full nameVladimir Vasilyevich Fedoseev
CountryRussia (until May 2022)
FIDE (May 2022 - July 2023)[a]
Slovenia (since July 2023)
Born (1995-02-16) 16 February 1995 (age 28)
Saint Petersburg, Russia[3]
TitleGrandmaster (2011)
FIDE rating2690 (February 2024)
Peak rating2733 (October 2017)
RankingNo. 45 (February 2024)
Peak rankingNo. 24 (October 2017)

Vladimir Vasilyevich Fedoseev (Russian: Влади́мир Васи́льевич Федосе́ев; born 16 February 1995) is a Russian chess grandmaster playing for Slovenia.[4] He competed in the Chess World Cup in 2015, 2017, 2021 and 2023.[5]

Career

Fedoseev tied for second place in the Chigorin Memorial 2010 tournament, finishing seventh on tiebreak.[6] In 2011, Fedoseev won the under 18 section of the Russian Youth Championships[7] and finished runner-up in the same division at the World Youth Chess Championship.[8] In the same year, he played for the gold medal-winning Russian team in the World Youth U-16 Chess Olympiad in Kocaeli, Turkey.[9]

In 2012, Fedoseev tied for first place with Alexei Shirov in the Paul Keres Memorial rapid tournament in Tallinn, finishing second after playoffs.[10] In 2013, in Budva, Montenegro, he won the under-18 division of the European Youth Chess Championship, and also won the blitz and rapid events in the under-18 category.[11][12][13]

Fedoseev won the bronze medal at the 2014 European Individual Chess Championship in Yerevan, therefore qualifying for the 2015 FIDE World Cup.[14] Later that year, he finished third in the "Lake Sevan" round-robin tournament in Martuni, Armenia[15] and in the World Junior Chess Championship.[16] In December 2014, he took part in the "Nutcracker Match of the Generations", a match between two teams, Princes (made up of Vladislav Artemiev, Daniil Dubov, Fedoseev, and Grigoriy Oparin) and Kings (Alexei Dreev, Peter Leko, Alexander Morozevich, and Alexei Shirov), held in Moscow with the Scheveningen system.[17] Fedoseev was the top scorer of the event with 11/16 points.[18]

In January 2015, he won the Vladimir Dvorkovich Memorial in Taganrog.[19] In April of that year, he tied for first place in the Dubai Open, placing third on tiebreak;[20] he also won the blitz tournament from the event.[21] In 2016 Fedoseev shared first place in the Grenke Chess Open in Karlsruhe, Germany with Matthias Bluebaum, Nikita Vitiugov, Miloš Perunović, Ni Hua, and Francisco Vallejo Pons, taking second place on tiebreak.[22]

In March 2017 Fedoseev came first in the Aeroflot Open.[23] This victory earned him an invitation to the Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting, held in July of the same year. In this event he won against Vladimir Kramnik in the opening round[24] and eventually finished second,[25] edging out Maxime Vachier-Lagrave on tiebreak.[26] In June 2017, Fedoseev tied for first place with Maxim Matlakov and Baadur Jobava in the European Individual Championship in Minsk and took the bronze medal on tiebreak.[27] Later in the same month, Fedoseev was part of the Russian team which won the silver medal in the World Team Chess Championship in Khanty-Mansiysk.[28] In September, he reached the quarterfinals of the World Cup in Tbilisi, after knocking out Yusnel Bacallao Alonso, Ernesto Inarkiev, Hikaru Nakamura and Maxim Rodshtein. Fedoseev was then eliminated from the competition by Wesley So. Two months later, Fedoseev won the Urii Eliseev Memorial in Moscow with a score of 4½/5 points.[29] In December he shared 3rd-4th places with Daniil Dubov in the Russian Championship Superfinal in St. Petersburg, finishing fourth on tiebreak,[30] and won the silver medal in the World Rapid Chess Championship in Riyadh, after losing the playoff to Viswanathan Anand.[31]

Through February and March 2022, Fedoseev played in the FIDE Grand Prix 2022. In the first leg, he placed third in Pool B with a 3/6 result. In the second leg, he tied for third with Alexei Shirov in Pool C with a result of 2.5/6, finishing 19th in the standings with three points.

In December 2023 Fedoseev competed at Fide World Rapid and Blitz Championships 2023 in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. He won the silver medal in the rapid section, scoring 9.5/13, only finishing behind the highest seed, Magnus Carlsen.[32]

Notes

  1. ^ Several Russian players officially switched federations in response to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.[1][2]

References

  1. ^ Russian Grandmasters Leave Russia: 'I Have No Sympathy For This War', chess.com, 1 May 2022
  2. ^ FIDE Condemns Military Action; Takes Measures Against Russia, Belarus, chess.com, 28 February 2022
  3. ^ McGourty, Colin (21 March 2017). "Howell claims Winter Classic in thrilling finish". chess24.com. Retrieved 25 March 2017.
  4. ^ https://new.chess24.com/en/wall/news/fedoseev-to-play-for-slovenia-i-have-no-will-to-represent-russia
  5. ^ "World Cup Qualified Players" (PDF). FIDE. Retrieved 30 May 2023.
  6. ^ Sudakova, Irina; Mikheeva, Elena (15 November 2010). "Safarli wins the Chigorin Memorial in St. Petersburg". ChessBase. Retrieved 21 August 2015.
  7. ^ "Russian Youth Championships". ChessBase. 30 April 2011. Retrieved 21 August 2015.
  8. ^ World Youth Chess Championship - U 18 Open. chess-results.com.
  9. ^ "Russia takes gold at the World Youth Under-16 Chess Olympiad". Chessdom. 31 October 2011. Retrieved 21 August 2015.
  10. ^ "Alexei Shirov Wins Paul Keres Memorial". Chessdom. 8 January 2012.
  11. ^ 13th European Youth Blitz Chess Championship 2013 - Open U18 Chess-Results
  12. ^ 13th European Youth Rapid Chess Championship 2013 - Open U18 Chess-Results
  13. ^ "ECU Newsletter 130" (PDF). European Chess Union. 1 October 2013.
  14. ^ Silver, Albert (18 March 2014). "2014 Euro-Ch: Motylev wins with record result". ChessBase. Retrieved 12 July 2016.
  15. ^ Sagar Shah (14 August 2014). "Lake Sevan 2014: Vidit Gujrathi triumphs". ChessBase. Retrieved 12 July 2016.
  16. ^ "Lu Shanglei and Aleksandra Goryachkina won the World Junior Chess titles! (Video)". Chessdom. 20 October 2014.
  17. ^ Crowther, Mark (25 December 2014). "Nutcacker Match of the Generations 2014". The Week in Chess. Retrieved 21 August 2015.
  18. ^ McGourty, Colin (27 December 2014). "Christmas Nutcracker: Fedoseev stars". Chess24. Retrieved 21 August 2015.
  19. ^ "Vladimir Fedoseev wins Dvorkovich Memorial 2015". Chessdom. 29 January 2015. Retrieved 22 August 2015.
  20. ^ "Dragan Solak wins 17th Dubai Open". ChessBase. 18 April 2015. Retrieved 12 July 2016.
  21. ^ "Russian GM Fedoseev crowned champion of Dubai Open Blitz Tournament". Chessdom. 11 April 2015. Retrieved 12 July 2016.
  22. ^ Souleidis, Georgios (30 March 2016). "Matthias Blübaum wins GRENKE Chess Open". ChessBase.
  23. ^ "Vladimir Fedoseev wins Aeroflot Open 2017". ChessBase. 4 March 2017. Retrieved 5 March 2017.
  24. ^ Silver, Albert (16 July 2017). "45th Sparkassen Dortmund: Kramnik falls to Fedoseev". Chess News. ChessBase. Retrieved 2 January 2018.
  25. ^ McGourty, Colin (1 August 2017). "Fedoseev on Dortmund and his World Cup dreams". chess24.com. Retrieved 2 January 2018.
  26. ^ "Vladimir Fedoseev Finished Second in Dortmund". Russian Chess Federation. 23 July 2017. Retrieved 2 January 2018.
  27. ^ Crowther, Mark (10 June 2017). "European Individual Chess Championship 2017". The Week in Chess. Retrieved 2 January 2018.
  28. ^ McGourty, Colin (28 June 2017). "Flawless China retain World Team Championship". chess24.com. Retrieved 2 January 2018.
  29. ^ McGourty, Colin (20 November 2017). "Fedoseev stars in Eliseev Memorial". chess24.com. Retrieved 2 January 2018.
  30. ^ "Peter Svidler and Aleksandra Goryachkina are 2017 Russian Champions". Chessdom. 15 December 2017. Retrieved 2 January 2018.
  31. ^ "Viswanathan Anand and Ju Wenjun are World Rapid Champions!". Chessdom. 28 December 2017. Retrieved 2 January 2018.
  32. ^ Barden, Leonard (29 December 2023). "Chess: Magnus Carlsen World Rapid champion again and targets Blitz". The Guardian. Retrieved 29 December 2023.

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