(1977-09-19) September 19, 1977 (age 46) Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, USSR
Title
Grandmaster (1996)
FIDE rating
2590 (May 2024)
Peak rating
2703 (January 2012)
Peak ranking
No. 17 (October 2004)
Emil Sutovsky (born 19 September 1977) is an Israeli chess player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 1996. Sutovsky is the FIDE CEO since 2022. Previously he served as FIDE Director-General (2018-22). He was the president of the Association of Chess Professionals from 2012[2] to 2019.[3]
^"Sutovsky, Emil". OlimpBase. Retrieved August 3, 2021.
^"New ACP emerges with lofty goals and new events". ChessBase. March 17, 2012. Retrieved February 14, 2016.
EmilSutovsky (born 19 September 1977) is an Israeli chess player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 1996. Sutovsky is the FIDE CEO since...
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at Pamplona in 2003, this time sharing victory with Luke McShane and EmilSutovsky. So far, he has won the Spanish national championship of 1995, 1998...
chess players. As the first act of his presidency in December 2011 EmilSutovsky outlined the basis of his programme, which will be centered around the...
one of their top priorities. In January 2019, FIDE Director-General EmilSutovsky announced that a new contract has been signed that continues a scaled-back...
he is the ambassador of Israel to Belarus. Zechariah Sitchin, author EmilSutovsky, chess Grandmaster and the president of the Association of Chess Professionals...
team consisting of Boris Alterman, Alexander Huzman, Ilya Smirin, and EmilSutovsky at Tel Aviv in 1998. Adding to the difficulty Kasparov played Black...
the Vidmar Memorial tournament four times: in 1999, 2001, 2003 (with EmilSutovsky) and 2005. He finished third in the Linares tournament of 1991, behind...
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tournament runner-up Michael Adams. In 2005 he tied for 1st–5th with EmilSutovsky, Andrei Kharlov, Vassily Ivanchuk and Alexander Motylev at the Aeroflot...
Italian footballer 1977 – Mike Smith, American baseball player 1977 – EmilSutovsky, Israeli chess player 1978 – Nick Johnson, American baseball player...
participate in the Chess Olympiad. Israel participated without Boris Gelfand, EmilSutovsky, and Ilya Smirin due to a dispute with the Israel Chess Federation management...
Nikita Vitiugov (rated 2604) and then the 2001 European Champion, GM EmilSutovsky of Israel (rated 2629). However, in the third round she was defeated...
Connecticut Whale) Eli Elezra – professional poker player Boris Gelfand, EmilSutovsky, Ilya Smirin – chess Grandmasters (~2700 peak Elo rating) Baruch Hagai...
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in Gibraltar with Zahar Efimenko, Kiril Georgiev, Alexei Shirov and EmilSutovsky. He also won the Karabakh 2005 International "A" Tournament. In the...
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