Role Chess Player | Name Boris Grachev | |
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Full name Boris Pavlovich Grachev Born 27 March 1986 (age 38) Moscow ( 1986-03-27 ) | ||
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Boris Pavlovich Grachev (Russian: Борис Павлович Грачёв; born 27 March 1986) is a Russian chess grandmaster.
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- Chess career
- Notable games
- References
He competed in the FIDE World Cup in 2009, 2011, 2015 and 2017.
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Chess career
In 1995, Grachev won the Under-10 section of the World Youth Chess Festival in São Lourenço, Brazil.
He won the Russian Junior Championship in 2006. In the same year he tied for first place with Alexander Lastin at the Moscow Open, finishing second on tiebreak.
In March 2009, he tied for first place at the European Individual Chess Championship with a score of 8/11 points. In June of that year Grachev won the first Lublin Grandmaster Tournament and in the following month, the Master Open tournament of the Biel Chess Festival.
In 2010, he tied for 3rd–6th with Alexander Motylev, Zhou Jianchao and Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son in the Aeroflot Open.
Grachev won the Young GM round-robin tournament of the 2011 Moscow Open.
In December 2011, he shared the first place with Igor Kurnosov at the 35th Zurich Christmas Open, and in January 2012, Grachev won the Basel Chess Festival. Thanks to this latter two achievements he crossed the 2700 Elo rating mark in the March 2012 FIDE rating list.
In January 2013, Grachev won again in Basel with 5.5/7, edging out on tiebreak Levente Vajda, Robin van Kampen and Andrei Istratescu.
In 2014, he shared 4th-5th places in the Russian Championship Higher League and as a result qualified to play in the Superfinal of the Russian Chess Championship. In this event he scored 4/9.
In 2016, Grachev won both the Moscow Blitz Championship (on tiebreak from Alexander Morozevich) and the Moscow Rapid Championship.