Ernesto Inarkiev

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Ernesto Inarkiev
Эрнесто Инаркиев Москва 2020.jpg
Inarkiev in Moscow 2020
Country
Born (1985-12-09) 9 December 1985 (age 36)
Khaidarkan, Kirghiz SSR, Soviet Union
TitleGrandmaster (2002)
FIDE rating2659 (February 2022)
Peak rating2732 (September 2016)
RankingNo. 80 (February 2022)
Peak rankingNo. 25 (October 2016)

Ernesto Inarkiev (Russian: Эрнесто Инаркиев; born 9 December 1985) is a Russian chess grandmaster, the first ever from Kalmykia.[1] He was European champion in 2016.

Since July 2005, Inarkiev has continuously been among the 100 highest FIDE-rated chess players in the world.

Inarkiev was part of the Moscow team that won the Russian championship in rapid chess in 2015.

Life and career[]

Inarkiev, who was named after Ernesto "Che" Guevara,[2] was born in Khaidarkan, Kyrgyzstan[1] (then part of the Soviet Union). In 1999, he won the Asian under-16 championship and the men championship of Kyrgyzstan.[1] He played for Kyrgyzstan in two Chess Olympiads: 1998 and 2000.

In 2000, he accepted Kirsan Ilyumzhinov's offer to move to Elista with his family[1] and started to represent the Russian Chess Federation and Kalmykia.[3] Beginning in 2001, he was trained by Mark Dvoretsky.

Inarkiev won the Under-16 division of the European Youth Chess Championship in 2001.[4] In 2002, Inarkiev won the Russian junior (under-20) championship.[5]

In 2005 Inarkiev moved to Moscow, wherein 2008 graduated from economic faculty of RSSU, in finance and credit.

Inarkiev won the Higher league of the Russian championship twice (2006 and 2013). In 2006 finished third in the Superfinal of the 59th Russian Chess Championship. He is a five-time winner of the Russian team championship with the team "Tomsk-400" (2004, 2005, 2007, 2009, and 2012) and a two-time winner of European Club Cup with the team "Tomsk-400" (2005 and 2006).

Inarkiev won the 2014 Baku Open[6] and the 3rd Sharjah Masters in 2019.[7] Inarkiev won the Moscow Open 2015, winning 8 out of 9 matches.[8][9] In 2016, Inarkiev won the European Championship in Gjakova with a performance of 2882.[10][11]

In November 2017, with a rating 2767, Inarkiev became the 16th player in the world in the FIDE rapid chess rating list.

Co-organizer of the chess festival "Tower of Concord", annually organized by sports club "Adi Ahmad" in Ingushetia from 2016. The main event of the festival is the match Inarkiev played against invited stars - Boris Gelfand in 2016[12] and 2017,[13] Wei Yi in 2018[14] and Sergey Karjakin in 2019.[15]

From January 2017 to January 2019, Inarkiev was the President of Chess Federation of Ingushetia. During that period the project "Chess in schools" was implemented in the republic in cooperation with Russian chess federation and Timchenko Foundation.

2017 incident against Magnus Carlsen[]

Inarkiev was involved in a rules controversy at the 2017 World Blitz Championship during his game against Magnus Carlsen. With both players only having seconds left on the clock, Carlsen checked Inarkiev, who then ignored the check and played an illegal move putting Carlsen in check. Carlsen moved his own king away from the attack, prompting Inarkiev to summon an arbiter to ask them to declare him the winner because Carlsen had made an illegal move. The arbiter awarded Inarkiev the victory, but the decision was quickly overturned by the chief arbiter, who ruled that Carlsen’s move was not technically illegal even though it resulted in an illegal position and invited the participants to continue the game from the position in which it was stopped. Inarkiev refused to continue, leaving Carlsen as the winner; Inarkiev's subsequent appeal was dismissed.

In the discussion that broke out after this incident, the opinion of the arbiters was divided. Many well-known arbiters expressed the opinion that in this case the rule about an illegal position should be applied - there are no legal moves in an illegal position, which means that the game cannot be continued and the arbiter should count the draw as a result in a such game.[16][17][18]

After this game, in 2018, the rules of the blitz and rapid chess were amended - now, if the arbiter sees the position where the kings of both sides are checked, the arbiter must wait for the completion of the next move, and if an illegal position remains on the board, he must count the draw in such a game. Also, warnings and penalties are currently provided for the first illegal move, and only if a player makes illegal moves twice will the arbiter declare the game a win for the other player.[19]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d "Ernesto Inarkev". Tashir Chess. Archived from the original on 20 August 2016. Retrieved 2 September 2015.
  2. ^ New in Chess, 2006/7. Hail, young and unknown tribe!, p.66
  3. ^ Player transfers in 2000. FIDE.
  4. ^ Jugend-Europameisterschaft U16 Burschen. chess-results.com.
  5. ^ Crowther, Mark (18 March 2002). "TWIC 384: Russian Junior Championships". The Week in Chess. Retrieved 2 September 2015.
  6. ^ "Inarkiev wins photo finish at Baku Open". chess24.com. Retrieved 2020-04-29.
  7. ^ "Inarkiev inks Sharjah 2019 title". Chess News. 2019-04-04. Retrieved 2020-04-29.
  8. ^ "Ernesto Inarkiev: My Key Game Was Played With Ian Nepomniachtchi • Moscow Open". open2015.moscowchess.org. Retrieved 2020-04-29.
  9. ^ "Ernesto Inarkiev convincing in Moscow Open 2015 | Chessdom". Retrieved 2020-04-29.
  10. ^ "Ernesto Inarkiev is the 2016 European Champion". Chess News. 2016-05-24. Retrieved 2020-04-29.
  11. ^ Content (SamCopeland), Sam Copeland-Director of. "Inarkiev New European Champion". Chess.com. Retrieved 2020-04-29.
  12. ^ "Gelfand vs Inarkiev Match 2016 | The Week in Chess". theweekinchess.com. Retrieved 2020-04-29.
  13. ^ "Gelfand-Inarkiev Match 2017 | The Week in Chess". theweekinchess.com. Retrieved 2020-04-29.
  14. ^ "Wei Yi Wins Match Against Ernesto Inarkiev". Российская Шахматная Федерация (in Russian). Retrieved 2020-04-29.
  15. ^ "Sergey Karjakin Takes the Lead in His Match against Ernesto Inarkiev". Российская Шахматная Федерация (in Russian). Retrieved 2020-04-29.
  16. ^ Doggers (PeterDoggers), Peter. "Karjakin Leads World Blitz Halfway; Carlsen 2 Points Behind". Chess.com. Retrieved 2020-04-29.
  17. ^ "Как у нашего шахматиста Инаркиева отобрали победу над Карлсеном". www.mk.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 2020-04-29.
  18. ^ "The Carlsen - Inarkiev controversy - ChessBase India". www.chessbase.in. Retrieved 2020-04-29.
  19. ^ "FIDE LAWS of CHESS" (PDF).{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

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