Nikita Vitiugov

Nikita Vitiugov
Full name	Никита Витюгов
Country	Soviet Union  Russia
Born	February 4, 1987 (1987-02-04) (age 24) Saint-Petersburg, Soviet Union
Title	Grandmaster
FIDE rating	2726 (No. 21 in the September 2011 FIDE World Rankings)
Peak rating	2733 (May 2011)

Nikita Kirillovich Vitiugov (Russian: Никита Кириллович Витюгов; born 4 February 1987, Saint Petersburg) is a Russian chess grandmaster (2006).

Vitiugov is 2006 World Junior Chess Vice-Champion^[1] and participant of the Russian Chess Championship (2006^[2] and 2007^[3]). He was a member of the gold-medal-winning Russian team at the World Team Chess Championship 2009 in Bursa.^[4] In 2011, he tied for 1st-3rd with Evgeny Tomashevsky and Le Quang Liem in the Aeroflot Open.^[5]

On the May 2011 FIDE Elo rating list, he has a rating of 2733.

Books

• Nikita Vitiugov (2010). The French Defence. Chess Stars. ISBN 978-95-4878-276-0. 

References

1. ^ ChessBase.com - Chess News - Shen Yang and Zaven Andriasian World Junior Champions
2. ^ Russian Chess Federation - Evgeny Alekseev becomes the champion of Russia
3. ^ FIDE Archive - Tournament report January 2007
4. ^ Crawley, Gavin (2010-01-13). "Bursa: Russia wins Gold, USA Silver, India Bronze". ChessBase. http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=6058. Retrieved 4 May 2010. 
5. ^ "Aeroflot open 2011 A". World Chess Federation. http://ratings.fide.com/tournament_report.phtml?event16=56504. Retrieved 20 March 2011. 

External links

• FIDE rating card for Nikita Vitiugov
• Nikita Vitiugov player profile at ChessGames.com
• Article
• Interview
• Interview (2006) (in Russian)
• Interview (2007) (in Russian)

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Name	Vitiugov, Nikita
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Date of birth	4 February 1987
Place of birth	Saint-Petersburg, Soviet Union
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