Viktor Kupreichik

Viktor Davidovich Kupreichik (born 3 July 1949) is a Belarusian chess master. [http://www3.sympatico.ca/g.giffen/playersKe-P.html]

At the beginning of his career, he won individual gold medal at Ybbs 1968 (the 15th World Student Team Chess Championship). [http://www.olimpbase.org/1968y/1968in.html#medals] He was twice the winner of the Belarusian Chess Championship in 1972 and 2003. He also placed first at Wijk aan Zee (Masters' tournament) 1977, Kirovakan 1978 (jointly), Reykjavik 1980, Plovdiv 1980, Medina del Campo 1980, [Litmanowicz, Władysław & Giżycki, Jerzy (1986, 1987). Szachy od A do Z. Wydawnictwo Sport i Turystyka Warszawa. ISBN 83-217-2481-7 (1. A-M), ISBN 83-217-2745-x (2. N-Z)] and Hastings International Chess Congress in 1981/82. [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B02E5DC133BF935A25750C0A964948260]

A player of real fighting chess, he would often lead tournaments in the early stages and then run out of stamina and lose heavily in the last few rounds; for example, at each of the Soviet Championships of 1979 and 1980, he won 5 consecutive games, but only finished 6th on both occasions. [The Soviet Championships, Cafferty & Taimanov, Cadogan (1998) - pages 183, 186]

He was awarded the Grandmaster title in 1980.

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