(1985-05-30)30 May 1985 Chelyabinsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Died
8 August 2013(2013-08-08) (aged 28) Chelyabinsk, Russia
Title
Grandmaster (2003)
Peak rating
2680 (May 2010)
Peak ranking
No. 52 (May 2010)
Igor Kurnosov (Russian: Игорь Курносов; 30 May 1985 – 8 August 2013) was a Russian chess grandmaster.
In 2004 he won the 8th Open International Bavarian Chess Championship in Bad Wiessee edging out on tiebreak other five grandmasters.[1]
Kurnosov took clear first place at the Arctic Chess Challenge in Tromsø, Norway in 2008,[2] 2008/9 Hastings Masters tournament[3] and 2011 Politiken Cup in Helsingør, Denmark.[4] In 2010 he played in the Russian Championship Superfinal, where he scored 5½/11 for a shared 7th–10th place.[5] In December 2011, Kurnosov won the Zurich Christmas Open by tiebreak over Boris Grachev.[6] In 2012, by winning the semi-finals in Astana, he qualified for the World Rapid Chess Championship final.[7] In the same year he tied for 1st–3rd with Sergei Movsesian and Romain Edouard in the Biel Masters Open winning the tournament on countback. In May 2013 he won the Nakhchivan Open on tiebreak over Aleksandr Shimanov and Gadir Guseinov.[8] Two months later, in July 2013, Kurnosov won the 20th Abu Dhabi Chess Festival, edging out Zahar Efimenko, Mikhailo Oleksienko and Avetik Grigoryan on tiebreak.[9]
On the August 2013 FIDE rating list, Kurnosov ranked 84th in the world with a 2662 rating.[10]
Kurnosov was hit and killed by a motorist on 8 August 2013 at 2:45 am in his home town Chelyabinsk, aged 28.[11]
^Crowther, Mark (2004-11-08). "TWIC 522: 8th International Open Bayerische Schach Meisterschaft". The Week in Chess. Retrieved 1 November 2015.
^GM Igor Kurnosov wins Arctic Chess Challenge. FIDE.
^ChessBase.com - Chess News - ITMA No it is not – it's Igor Kurnosov
^"Politiken Cup 2011". Chessdom. 2011-08-08. Archived from the original on 2015-09-05. Retrieved 7 October 2015.
^"Ian Nepomniachtchi is Russian Chess Champion". Chessdom. 2010-12-24. Archived from the original on 2018-09-07.
^Crowther, Mark (2012-01-02). "TWIC 835: 35th Zurich Christmas Open". The Week in Chess. Retrieved 2016-04-25.
^Doggers, Peter (2012-07-04). "Dreev, Kurnosov and Tkachiev qualify for Rapid World Championship final". ChessVibes. Retrieved 2016-04-25.
^"Kurnosov wins Nakhchivan Open". ChessVibes. 2013-05-08. Archived from the original on 8 September 2018. Retrieved 7 October 2015.
^"Kurnosov wins 20th Abu Dhabi Chess Festival 2013". ChessBase. 2013-07-08. Retrieved 7 October 2015.
^"Top 100 Players August 2013". World Chess Federation. Retrieved August 8, 2013.
^"GM Igor Kurnosov dies in a tragic incident". Chessdom. 2013-08-08. Retrieved 7 October 2015.
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