Valery salov biography

  • Valery Salov is a Russian chess grandmaster who was ranked third in the world in 1995.
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  • Valery Salov (born 26 May 1964) is a Russian chess grandmaster who was ranked third in the world in 1995.

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    Valery Salov is a Russian grandmaster and GM Anatoly Karpov's second from 1985 to 1986. Salov won the U-17 World Youth Chess Championship and the European Junior Championship in 1983-94.

    Salov came close to winning the USRR Championship twice. The first time was in 1987 when he shared first place with GM Alexander Beliavsky but lost in the tiebreaks. A year later, he finished tied for third behind chess legends Karpov and GM Garry Kasparov.

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    Sicilian Defense: Open, Classical, Richter-Rauzer Variation (21 games)

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    Queen's Indian Defense: Petrosian Variation, Farago Defense (10 games)

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    Sicilian Defense: Open, Scheveningen, Sozin, Leonhardt, Main Line (9 games)

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    Valery Salov in Petersburg.

    A short reference (Viking Encyclopaedia) Valery Borisovich Salov (born in May 26, 1964, Wrotslav) is a Soviet Russian chessplayer, International Grandmaster. In 1980 he was a world chess champion among cadets (up to 16 years of age), winner of the European youth championship in 1983. Soviet chess champion (1987). He won also several big tournaments, including Weik-an-Zee one (1992, 1997), a tournament in Amsterdam (1991, ahead of Anatoly Karpov and Garry Kasparov), tournament in honor of 60 years! Lev Polugaevsky in Buenos-Aires (1994. ahead of Karpov and Vishwanathan Anand). The highest achievement of Salov in world chess championship playing was his participating in a semi-final match in 1994 (he yielded Gata Kamsky, +0-4=3 score). One the whole, Salov's chess carrier peak comes to 1989-95years, he had the highest Elo raing in January, 1995. In 1991 Salov moved to Spain. He does not participate in o

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    There are sju Grandmasters who were born on "This Day in Chess History."

    1. Yaacov Zilberman of Israel, born 1954, GM 1998.
    2. Valery Salov of Russia, born 1964, GM 1986.
    3. Friso Nijboer of the Netherlands, born 1965, GM 1993.
    4. Alexander Kalinin of Russia, born 1968, GM 2001.
    5. Mikulas Manik of Slovakia, born 1975, GM 2006.
    6. Grigor Grigorov of Bulgaria, born 1987, GM 2011.
    7. Vahap Şanal of Turkey, born 1998, GM 2016.

    Valery Salov (born 26 May 1964) is a Russian chess grandmaster who was once ranked the third best player in the world.Salov was awarded the International Master title in 1984 and the Grandmaster title in 1986. He was the World under-17 Champion in 1980 and the European Junior mästare in 1983–84. He shared first place in the 1987 USSR Championship.
    After 1988 Valeri went from one success to another and by the mid-90’s he already had a 2700-plus rating. His play seemed to be a combination of Fischer and