Dmitry Kokarev (chess player)

Dmitry Kokarev
Country Russia
Born (1982-02-18) 18 February 1982 (age 42)
Penza, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
TitleGrandmaster (2007)
FIDE rating2538 (December 2024)
Peak rating2651 (January 2017)

Dmitry Kokarev (Russian: Дмитрий Кокарев; born 18 February 1982 in Penza) is a Russian chess Grandmaster.

Chess career

Kokarev won the U-18 section of the World Youth Chess Championship in 1999 in Oropesa del Mar, Spain.[1] In 2009, he tied for 1st–8th with Sergey Volkov, Igor Lysyj, Aleksandr Rakhmanov, Valerij Popov, Denis Khismatullin, Dmitry Andreikin and Dmitry Bocharov in the Voronezh Open tournament.[2] In 2010, he won the Mumbai Mayor's Cup chess tournament[3] and tied for 1st–6th with Maxim Turov, Alexey Dreev, Martyn Kravtsiv, Baskaran Adhiban and Aleksej Aleksandrov in the 2nd Orissa Open tournament in Bhubaneshwar.[4] In 2013 Kokarev won the Dvorkovich Memorial in Taganrog[5] and sharing first at the Chigorin Memorial in Saint Petersburg, finishing second on tiebreak score.[6] In 2014 he won the 10th Ugra Governor's Cup in Khanty-Mansiysk.[7] Kokarev played for Novosibirsk's team "Siberia" which won both the Russian Team Chess Championship Premiere League[8] and the European Club Cup in 2015.[9]

Notable games

References

  1. ^ "TWIC 261: World Youth Championships". Mark Crowther. 1999-11-08. Retrieved 11 December 2017.
  2. ^ "Tournament report September 2009: Voronezh open 2009". World Chess Federation. Retrieved 11 June 2010.
  3. ^ "GM Dmitry Kokarev takes Mumbai Mayor's Cup". chessdom.com. Archived from the original on 23 May 2013. Retrieved 11 June 2010.
  4. ^ "02nd Orissa Open Grandmaster TMT". FIDE. Retrieved 15 May 2011.
  5. ^ "The Winning Path". Chess-News.ru. 2013-01-24. Retrieved 6 March 2016.
  6. ^ Crowther, Mark (2013-10-05). "Chigorin Memorial 2013". The Week in Chess. Retrieved 13 February 2014.
  7. ^ "X Gubernators Cup Ugra 2014 December 2014 Russia". FIDE. Retrieved 28 November 2014.
  8. ^ "Siberia Wins the Russian Club Championship". Russian Chess Federation. Retrieved 9 April 2016.
  9. ^ "Siberia and Nona win European Club Cup 2015". Chessdom. 2015-10-25. Retrieved 29 October 2015.


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