In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Kirillovich and the family name is Vitiugov.
Nikita Vitiugov
Vitiugov at the Grenke Open 2016
Full name
Nikita Kirillovich Vitiugov
Country
Russia (until May 2022) FIDE (since May 2022) England (since August 2023)[a]
Born
(1987-02-04) 4 February 1987 (age 37) Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Title
Grandmaster (2007)
FIDE rating
2688 (May 2024)
Peak rating
2751 (November 2019)
Ranking
No. 47 (May 2024)
Peak ranking
No. 15 (May 2011)
Nikita Kirillovich Vitiugov (Russian: Никита Кириллович Витюгов; born 4 February 1987) is a Russian chess grandmaster who internationally represents England as of September 2023[update]. He changed federations in response to the Russia-Ukraine war. He was a member of the victorious Russian team at the World Team Chess Championship in 2009 and 2013. Vitiugov won the Gibraltar Masters tournament in 2013 and the Grenke Open in 2017. Vitiugov won the 2021 Russian Chess Championship.
^Russian Grandmasters Leave Russia: 'I Have No Sympathy For This War', chess.com, 1 May 2022
^FIDE Condemns Military Action; Takes Measures Against Russia, Belarus, chess.com, 28 February 2022
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Nikita Kirillovich Vitiugov (Russian: Никита Кириллович Витюгов; born 4 February 1987) is a Russian chess grandmaster who internationally represents England...
Championship of 2011. Dubov shared first place with Dmitry Andreikin and NikitaVitiugov in the Russian Championship Higher League and qualified for the Superfinal...
to Nepomniachtchi and one draw. Nepomniachtchi worked with second NikitaVitiugov, along with Maxim Matlakov and Ildar Khairullin, while also consulting...
ranked according to the results, taking into account the tie-breaks. NikitaVitiugov, Yuriy Kryvoruchko and Nils Grandelius are tied for 23rd place, as...
Uzbekistan and Spain, respectively. Daniil Yuffa, Kirill Alekseenko and NikitaVitiugov also moved to Spain, while Alexey Sarana stayed in Belgrade after participating...
Petersburg Round-robin Peter Svidler (8) after a playoff match with NikitaVitiugov 71 25 August - 5 September 2018 Satka Round-robin Dmitry Andreikin...
Jakovenko Alexander Morozevich Evgeny Tomashevsky Vladimir Malakhov NikitaVitiugov United States Hikaru Nakamura Alexander Onischuk Yuri Shulman Varuzhan...
started well with two wins out of two, defeating first the Russian IM NikitaVitiugov (rated 2604) and then the 2001 European Champion, GM Emil Sutovsky...
the FIDE Grand Prix 2022. In the second leg, he tied for second with NikitaVitiugov in Pool B with a 3/6 result. In the third leg, he won his pool with...
Artemiev (Russia) 2731 0 ½ ½ 1 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 0 Does not appear 1 ½ 1 6 35.75 2712 12 NikitaVitiugov (Russia) 2747 ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 Does not appear ½ ½ 5 2653 13 Yu...
the Grenke Chess Open in Karlsruhe, Germany with Matthias Bluebaum, NikitaVitiugov, Miloš Perunović, Ni Hua, and Francisco Vallejo Pons, taking second...
Luke McShane and Gawain Jones. Invited grandmasters Boris Gelfand, NikitaVitiugov and Maxime Lagarde represented a Rest of the World team. After 6 rounds...
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