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Guests and participants of the tournament Проект: Развитие шахмат в РК Mission: Chess as a development tool. Think logically, Act strategically! Anatoly Karpov Ian Nepomniachtchi Lê Quang Liêm Title and current rating: GM, 2644 Title and current rating: GM, 2846 Title and current rating: GM, 2805 Title awarded in 1970 Title awarded in 2007 Title awarded in 2006 Soviet and Russian chess grandmaster. Russian grandmaster. Vietnamese grandmaster. A 12th World Chess Champion (1975—1985), three-fold The 2010 European champion. Winner of many The 2013 World Blitz Chess Champion, the Under-14 FIDE champion (1993—1999), two-fold World champion Russian and international youth championships. World Youth Chess Champion (2005). Competed for with the USSR team (1985, 1989), six-time winner with Winner of Aeroflot Open (2008). Finalist of the Vietnam at the Chess Olympiads (2006, 2008, 2010, the Soviet Union team at Chess Olympiads (1972—1982, 1986—1988). 9 times voted the best chess player of the Russia Cup (2009). Winner of the Russian 2012, 2014). Winner of Aeroflot Open (2010, 2011). year and awarded the Chess Oscar (1973—1977, 1979— Championship Superfinal (2010). 1981, 1984). Проект: Развитие шахмат в РК Mission: Chess as a development tool. Think logically, Act strategically! Rauf Mamedov Boris Gelfand Wang Hao Title and current rating: GM, 2796 Title and current rating: GM, 2792 Title and current rating: GM, 2784 Title awarded in 2004 Title awarded in: 1989 Title awarded in: 2005 Azerbaijani chess grandmaster. Israel's grandmaster. Chinese chess grandmaster. Winner of Azerbaijan championship (2004, 2006). The 2009 World Cup winner. Won gold with his national team in the U-16 Chess He was in the Azerbaijani National team that Participant of the nine World Olympiads - Olympiad (2002, 2004). Winner of a youth tournament played against the World's Compound team in XXIX (1990) in Novi Sad for the USSR in Yakutsk, Russia (2004), Dubai Open (2005), Malaysia 2009 that was held under the President's Cup national team, XXXI (1994) in Moscow, XXXII Open in Kuala Lumpur (2005 and 2007), Reykjavik dedicated to the memory of Heydar Aliyev. (1996) in Yerevan for the national team of Open (2008). Champion of China in 2010. Belarus, XXXIV-XXXIX (2000-2010) for the national team of Israel. The winner of many prestigious international tournaments. Проект: Развитие шахмат в РК Mission: Chess as a development tool. Think logically, Act strategically! Alexander Grischuk Dmitry Andreikin Pyotr Svidler Title and current rating: GM, 2766 Title and current rating: GM, 2759 Title and current rating: GM, 2754 Title awarded in: 1998 Title awarded in 2007 Title awarded in 1994 Russian chess grandmaster. Russian chess grandmaster Russian chess grandmaster. Two team gold medals at Chess Olympiads Champion of Russia U-14 (2001) and U-20 Seven-time Russian Champion (1994, 1995, 1997, 2003, and a three-time gold medalist of the Russian (2009, 2010). Repeated prize-winner of 2008, 2011 and 2013). team at World Team Chess Championship. international tournaments, World Junior Makes regular appearances for the national team at the Russian Champion. Threefold World Blitz Chess Champion (2010). Finalist of the Chess world and European team championships and chess champion (2006, 2012, 2015). World Cup (2013). Winner of the second leg Olympiads. Represented Russia at the chess Olympiads of the FIDE Grand Prix in Tashkent (2014). and won several medals (1994, 1996, 1998, 2000 and Winner of Hasselbacken Open (2016). 2002) and team medals (1997 and 2005). In 2004 and 2010 won silver at the World Chess Olympiad. Проект: Развитие шахмат в РК Mission: Chess as a development tool. Think logically, Act strategically! Rustam Kasymdjanov Vladimir Onischuk Vladislav Artemiev Title and current rating: GM, 2736 Title and current rating: GM, 2734 Title and current rating: GM, 2722 Title awarded in 1997 Title awarded in 2012 Title awarded in 2012 Uzbekistani chess grandmaster. Ukrainian chess grandmaster. Russian chess grandmaster. FIDE World Champion (2004). He came second Winner of the European Under-10 championship Winner of the World Youth U-16 Chess Olympiad (2012), in the World Junior Chess Championship in 1999 (2001), silver medalist of the World under-16 won the bronze medal in the European Under-14 in Yerevan, first at Essen 2001 and Pamplona championship (2006) and the European Under-12 championship (2011). Winner of the Russian junior 2002. In 1998 he won his first gold at the championship (2003). Winner of the World Youth (Under-20) championship (2013). Winner of the Asian Chess Championship. U-16 Chess Olympiad (2006). Russian Chess Premier League (2015). Проект: Развитие шахмат в РК Mission: Chess as a development tool. Think logically, Act strategically! Alexey Dreev Shakhriyar Mamedyarov Hou Yifan Title and current rating: GM, 2721 Title and current rating: GM, 2714 Title and current rating: GM, 2704 Title awarded in 1989 Title awarded in 2002 Title awarded in 2009 Soviet and Russian chess grandmaster. Azerbaijani Chess grandmaster. Chinese chess grandmaster. Honoured Master of Sports of Russian. Two-fold European Team Chess Championship A four-time Women's World Chess Champion He won three gold medals representing winner (2009, 2013) with the National team; (2010, 2011, 2013, 2016), three-time winner in Russia in the Chess Olympiads of 1992, 1994, the 2013 World Rapid Chess Championship the Women's World team championships with and 1996; a two-fold winner of World Team winner. The only two-time champion in the U-20 the Chinese national team (2007, 2009, 2011). Chess Championship (1997, 2005). Won the category winning the World Junior Chess European Rapid Chess Championship in Championship in 2003 and 2005. Warsaw (2012). Проект: Развитие шахмат в РК Mission: Chess as a development tool. Think logically, Act strategically! Igor Kovalenko Ruslan Ponomariov Francisco Vallejo Pons Title and current rating: GM, 2699 Title and current rating: GM, 2695 Title and current rating: GM, 2686 Title awarded in 2009 Title awarded in 1998 Title awarded in 1999 Latvian chess player. Ukrainian chess player. Spanish chess grandmaster. Two-fold Latvian Champion (2013, 2014). Won the XXXVI and XXXIX Chess Olympiad Manifold prize-winner of world championships Played for Latvia in Chess Olympiad (2014). with the Ukrainian team. Vice-champion of and European youth competitions under 10 and 12. Europe among men in 2001. In 2002 he He won the under-18 World Chess Youth came second in the Ciudad de Linares Championship in 2000. Represented the National international tournament. A two-time finalist team of Spain four times at the Chess Olympiads of the FIDE World Cup of 2005 and 2009. (2000–2006) and twice at the European Winner of the Dortmund Sparkassen Chess championships. Meeting in Dortmund (2010). Проект: Развитие шахмат в РК Mission: Chess as a development tool. Think logically, Act strategically! Rinat Jumabayev Krishnan Sasikiran Farrukh Amonatov Title and current rating: GM, 2685 Title and current rating: GM, 2681 Title and current rating: GM, 2679 Title awarded in: 2009 Title awarded in: 2000 Title awarded in 2002 Kazakhstan chess grandmaster. Indian chess grandmaster. Chess grandmaster of Tajikistan Two-fold Kazakhstan champion (2011, 2014). Asia Champion (2003). Champion of India Moscow Champion in individual classification Winner of the 2013 Pavlodar Open. Winner (1999, 2002, 2003). Participated in nine in 2004 and amongst the clubs in 2003 with of the regional World Championship of Asian Chess Olympiads with the national team the Vertical-MTUSI chess club. Winner of the nations (2015) and the winner of the Central (1998—2014). Tied for first place at the Russian Team Chess Championship with the Asia Cup in individual classification. Winner Aeroflot Open 2006 with another Tomsk-400 team in 2009. Champion of of various international competitions, and 3 players. Tajikistan (2006) and a silver medallist of the took 4th place in the world championship Rapid Chess Championship of Russia (2015). amongst students. Проект: Развитие шахмат в РК Mission: Chess as a development tool. Think logically, Act strategically! Rustam Khusnutdinov Ilya Smirin Murtas Kazhgaleyev Title and current rating: GM, 2664 Title and current rating: GM, 2659 Title and current rating: GM, 2657 Title awarded in 2009 Title awarded in 1990 Title awarded in 1998 Kazakhstan chess grandmaster Israeli chess grandmaster. Kazakhstan chess grandmaster International tournament in Chelyabinsk Winner of the tournament in Biel, Switzerland Champion of Kazakhstan (2015). Participated in 2008. Winner of the 2012 in rapid and (2002), and the World Open in Philadelphia in six Chess Olympiads with the national team blitz in Almaty. A three-time winner of (2002, 2003); champion of Israel (2002). (1996—2000, 2008—2012). Champion of rapid Kazakhstan Junior Championship. chess at the 2006 Asian games. Проект: Развитие шахмат в РК Mission: Chess as a development tool. Think logically, Act strategically! Sanan Sjugirov Alexander Moiseenko Laurent Fressinet Title and current rating: GM, 2656 Title and current rating: GM, 2646 Title and current rating: GM, 2630 Title awarded in 2009 Title awarded in 1999 Title awarded in 2000 Russian chess grandmaster Ukrainian chess grandmaster French chess grandmaster He won the under-10 section of the World A two-time winner of the World Team Participated in six Chess Olympiads with the Youth Chess Championship twice, in 2003 Chess Olympiad with the team of French National team (2000, 2004—2012). and 2007; a three-fold winner of the Ukraine. Champion of Europe. Two-fold champion of France. Twice runner-up European under-12 and under-14 at the European Blitz Championship. championships (2004, 2005, 2007) and winner of the Russian U20 championship (2008). Winner and prize-winner of tournaments in Russia and Ukraine. Проект: Развитие шахмат в РК Mission: Chess as a development tool. Think logically, Act strategically! Viktor Bologan Andrei Volokitin David Antón Guijarro Title and current rating: GM, 2625 Title and current rating: GM, 2621 Title and current rating: GM, 2611 Title awarded in 1991 Title awarded in 2001 Title awarded in 2013 Moldovan chess grandmaster Ukrainian chess grandmaster.
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    IM Dejan Nestorović GM Nikola Nestorović SECRETS OF POSITIONAL SACRIFICE Authors GM Nikola Nestorović, IM Dejan Nestorović Editorial board Vitomir Božić, Irena Nestorović, Miloš Perunović, Branko Tadić, Igor Žveglić Cover design Aleksa Mitrović Translator Ivan Marinković Proofreading Vitomir Božić Contributors Katarina Nestorović, Lazar Nestorović Editor-in-chief Branko Tadić General Manager Vitomir Božić President Aleksandar Matanović © Copyright 2021 Šahovski informator All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means: electronic, magnetic tape, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior permission in writing from the publisher. No part of the Chess Informant system (classifications of openings, endings and combinations, code system, etc.) may be used in other publications without prior permission in writing from the publisher. ISBN 978-86-7297-119-4 Izdavač Šahovski informator 11001 Beograd, Francuska 31, Srbija Phone: (381 11) 2630-109 E-mail: [email protected] Internet: https://www.sahovski.com A Word from the Author “Secrets of Positional Sacrifice” is the second book, created within the premises of the Nestor- ović family chess workshop. I would like to mention that the whole family contributed to this book. We are also extremely thankful to our friends, who, thanks to their previous experience, have introduced us to the process of creating chess books, with their invaluable advice and ideas. Considering the abundance of material regarding this topic that was gathered, we decided to make this book only the first, lower level of the “Positional sacrifice” edition. My father and I worked hard to make sure that the new book will be as interesting as the first one, but also more adapted to the wider audience.