Dmitry Kokarev (chess player)

Dmitry Kokarev (Russian: Дмитрий Кокарев; born 18 February 1982 in Penza) is a Russian chess Grandmaster.

Dmitry Kokarev
Country	Russia
Born	(1982-02-18) 18 February 1982 (age 42) Penza, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Title	Grandmaster (2007)
FIDE rating	2538 (December 2024)
Peak rating	2651 (January 2017)

Chess career

Kokarev won the U-18 section of the World Youth Chess Championship in 1999 in Oropesa del Mar, Spain.^[1] In 2009, he tied for 1st–8th with Sergey Volkov, Igor Lysyj, Aleksandr Rakhmanov, Valerij Popov, Denis Khismatullin, Dmitry Andreikin and Dmitry Bocharov in the Voronezh Open tournament.^[2] In 2010, he won the Mumbai Mayor's Cup chess tournament^[3] and tied for 1st–6th with Maxim Turov, Alexey Dreev, Martyn Kravtsiv, Baskaran Adhiban and Aleksej Aleksandrov in the 2nd Orissa Open tournament in Bhubaneshwar.^[4] In 2013 Kokarev won the Dvorkovich Memorial in Taganrog^[5] and sharing first at the Chigorin Memorial in Saint Petersburg, finishing second on tiebreak score.^[6] In 2014 he won the 10th Ugra Governor's Cup in Khanty-Mansiysk.^[7] Kokarev played for Novosibirsk's team "Siberia" which won both the Russian Team Chess Championship Premiere League^[8] and the European Club Cup in 2015.^[9]

Notable games

• Dmitry Kokarev vs Teimour Radjabov, Wch U18 1999, Formation: King's Indian Attack (A07) 1-0
• Dmitry Kokarev vs Ratmir Kholmov, White Nights 2001, Caro-Kann Defense: Finnish Variation (B16) 1-0

References

1. "TWIC 261: World Youth Championships". Mark Crowther. 1999-11-08. Retrieved 11 December 2017.
2. "Tournament report September 2009: Voronezh open 2009". World Chess Federation. Retrieved 11 June 2010.
3. "GM Dmitry Kokarev takes Mumbai Mayor's Cup". chessdom.com. Archived from the original on 23 May 2013. Retrieved 11 June 2010.
4. "02nd Orissa Open Grandmaster TMT". FIDE. Retrieved 15 May 2011.
5. "The Winning Path". Chess-News.ru. 2013-01-24. Retrieved 6 March 2016.
6. Crowther, Mark (2013-10-05). "Chigorin Memorial 2013". The Week in Chess. Retrieved 13 February 2014.
7. "X Gubernators Cup Ugra 2014 December 2014 Russia". FIDE. Retrieved 28 November 2014.
8. "Siberia Wins the Russian Club Championship". Russian Chess Federation. Retrieved 9 April 2016.
9. "Siberia and Nona win European Club Cup 2015". Chessdom. 2015-10-25. Retrieved 29 October 2015.

External links

• Dmitry Kokarev chess games at 365Chess.com
• Dmitry Kokarev player profile and games at Chessgames.com