ARTUR YUSUPOV

'Artur Mayakovich Yusupov' (de: 'Jussupow'), born February 13, 1960 in Moscow, Russia is a naturalised German International Grandmaster of chess.
He learned to play chess at the age of six and trained at the Young Pioneers' Palace in Moscow. He was a winner of the World Junior Chess Championship in 1977. This was also the year that he gained the International Master title, qualification as a grandmaster following in 1980. Second place at his first USSR Championship in 1979 (behind Geller). International tournament results in the next decade included first place at Esbjerg 1980, first at Erevan 1982, equal fourth at Linares 1983, first at Tunis 1985, equal first at Montpellier 1985 and third at Linares 1988.
By this time Yusupov was also chasing World Championship qualification, reaching the semi-final of the Candidates Tournament on three occasions in 1986 (defeated by Andrei Sokolov), 1989 (defeated by Anatoly Karpov) and 1992 (defeated by Jan Timman).
In the early nineties, he returned to his Moscow apartment one day and disturbed some burglars. During the struggle that broke out, he was shot and considers himself lucky to have survived. Soon after he decided to move to Germany, which has remained his home ever since.^[1]
In Germany, Yusupov placed first at Hamburg 1991, first at Amsterdam 1994 and second at Horgen 1994 (a category 18 tournament). He achieved equal first at the 2002 World Open, first at the Basel Rapid 2005 and first at Altenkirchen 2005, making him the German Champion. Around this time (October 2005) he had an Elo rating of 2595, compared to his peak of 2680.
In 1999, Yusupov published a book on the Petroff Defence.
Throughout his playing career, Yusupov has been coached and mentored by Mark Dvoretsky, an International Master who is widely considered to be the world's leading chess trainer.^[2][3][4][5] Yusupov freely acknowledges that Dvoretsky's influence has been instrumental in many of his biggest victories.^[6] The strong alliance and collaboration that developed, led to them setting up the Dvoretsky-Yusupov Chess School. Students of the Dvoretsky-Yusupov chess school include Peter Svidler.
Yusupov has also been a frequent contributor to Dvoretsky's books and has been a second and advisor to both Viswanathan Anand and Peter Leko during their world championship campaigns.
He is also known to have been a friend and training partner of the Russian GM, Sergey Dolmatov. Dolmatov was of course another protégé of Dvoretsky and like Yusupov, became a Junior World Champion (in 1978).

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★ ''Chess'' Magazine - Christmas 1985, pg. 258, Alexei Suetin article.

★ The Oxford Companion To Chess, Hooper, David and Kenneth Whyld, , , Oxford University, 1996, ISBN 0-19-280049-3

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★ Official website

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★ 1077 games available for download, (.pgn format)