Konstantin Aseev (October 20, 1960 – August 22, 2004) was a Russian chess Grandmaster and trainer.
Among his tournament successes were first at Leningrad 1989 with 9/13 (beating Leonid Yudasin and Alexander Khalifman among others) and second to Sergei Tiviakov in the 1992 Alekhine Memorial in Moscow with 6/9 (ahead of Vladimir Kramnik (whom he beat), Mikhail Gurevich, Vladimir Akopian and many others). He participated in many Soviet and Russian Championships, and played in the FIDE World Championship in 2001 (but was knocked out by Mikhail Kobalia in the first round). His last tournament was in St Petersburg in October 2003 where he scored 5.5/9. His final FIDE Elo rating was 2511; his peak Elo rating was 2591 in July 2001.
Among the players Aseev trained are Maya Chiburdanidze, Andrei Kharlov and Evgeny Alekseev.
Aseev died in St Petersburg after a long battle with cancer on August 22, 2004, a rapid tournament in memory of Aseev was held in St. Petersburg, won by Evgeny Alekseev on tie break from Peter Svidler. All proceeds from the event went to Aseev's family. Aseev's wife was also a master-level chess player.[1]
Here is Aseev's victory with Black over Khalifman at Leningrad 1989 (moves given in Algebraic chess notation):
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classified. At the Latvian venue of Daugavpils, Smirin, Rozentalis and Aseev made 10/14; while Alexey Shirov finished with only 8. Kherson in Ukraine...
(Lputian, Chemin, Chekhov); Minsk (Belyavsky, Vyzhmanavin, Eingom); Nikolayev (Aseev, Mikhalchishin, A.Sokolov). The top five qualified for the final. Boris...
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2016 Chelokhovo Moscow Oblast 5 0 5 2016 Yegoryevsk shooting [ru]: Ilya Aseev killed five people and was arrested the next day. 5 June 2016 Mytischi Moscow...
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Such prominent art workers as Vladimir Mayakovsky, Lilya Brik, Nikolai Aseev, Isaac Babel, and Eduard Bagritsky were their guests. When in 1939 Yezhov...
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