Konstantin Sakaev
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Konstantin Sakaev is a Russian chess
Grandmaster (1992), from St Petersburg
and Russian Champion
in 1999. He is also a chess writer. Sakaev is on the staff of the Grandmaster Chess School in St. Petersburg and has assisted Vladimir Kramnik
and Nana Ioseliani
while preparing for World Championship
Candidates' Matches.
Chess
Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...
Grandmaster (1992), from St Petersburg
Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg is a city and a federal subject of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea...
and Russian Champion
Russian Chess Championship
-Imperial Russia:In 1874, Emanuel Schiffers defeated Andrey Chardin in a match held in St. Petersburg with five wins and four losses. Schiffers was considered the first Russian champion until his student, Mikhail Chigorin, defeated him in a match held in St. Petersburg in 1879...
in 1999. He is also a chess writer. Sakaev is on the staff of the Grandmaster Chess School in St. Petersburg and has assisted Vladimir Kramnik
Vladimir Kramnik
Vladimir Borisovich Kramnik is a Russian chess grandmaster. He was the Classical World Chess Champion from 2000 to 2006, and the undisputed World Chess Champion from 2006 to 2007...
and Nana Ioseliani
Nana Ioseliani
Nana Mikhailovna Ioseliani is a Georgian woman chess player. She has held the FIDE Woman Grandmaster title since 1980, and the International Master title since 1993....
while preparing for World Championship
World Chess Championship
The World Chess Championship is played to determine the World Champion in the board game chess. Men and women of any age are eligible to contest this title....
Candidates' Matches.
Notable results
- World Champion under 16 - 1990
- USSR Youth Champion - 1990
- World Champion under 18 - 1992
- Russian Champion - 1999
- Chess OlympiadChess OlympiadThe Chess Olympiad is a biennial chess tournament in which teams from all over the world compete against each other. The event is organised by FIDE, which selects the host nation.-Birth of the Olympiad:The first Olympiad was unofficial...
champion with the Russian team - 1998 and 2000 - 16th in the 2005 FIDE World Cup.
Works
- Expert's Guide to the 7.Bc4 Gruenfeld ISBN 9789548782487
- Latest Trends in the Semi Slav: Anti-meran (with Semko Semkov) ISBN 9789548782425
- How to Get the Edge Against the Gruenfeld ISBN 9789548782357