Mikhail Ulibin

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Vitalyevich and the family name is Ulibin.
Mikhail Ulibin
Ulibin, Rilton Cup 2009
Full nameMikhail Vitalyevich Ulibin
CountrySoviet Union → Russia
Born (1971-05-31) 31 May 1971 (age 53)
TitleGrandmaster (1991)
Peak rating2589 (July 2002)

Mikhail Vitalyevich Ulibin (Russian: Михаил Витальевич Улыбин; born 31 May 1971) is a Russian chess player, who was awarded the title of grandmaster by FIDE in 1991.

Chess career

He played in the Soviet junior championships of 1984,[1] 1985 (3rd place),[2] 1986,[3] 1987,[4] and 1988 (tied for 1st–2nd with Gata Kamsky).[5] Ulibin took the silver medal in the World Junior Chess Championship of 1991.[6]

In 1994, he finished second behind Peter Svidler in the Russian championship at Elista[7] and played for Russia's second team in the Moscow Chess Olympiad.[8] His team took he bronze medal.

He won the 1998/1999 Rilton Cup in Stockholm.[9] In 2001, Ulibin won the Monarch Assurance International tournament at Port Erin, Isle of Man.[10] In 2002, he won the Masters' tournament of the 12th Abu Dhabi Chess Festival edging out Evgeny Gleizerov and Shukhrat Safin on tiebreak, after all finished on 6½/9 points.[11][12] In 2003, he tied for 3rd–10th with Vladimir Belov, Alexei Kornev, Farrukh Amonatov, Alexey Kim, Alexander Areshchenko, Andrey Shariyazdanov, and Spartak Vysochin in the St. Petersburg 300 Open tournament.[13] Ulibin came first in the Master Open Tournament in Biel 2007[14] and in the Zagreb Open in 2010.[15] In 2011, he won the Central Serbia Championship in Paraćin;[16] tied for 2nd–6th with Konstantine Shanava, Maxim Turov, Robert Hovhannisyan, and Levon Babujian in the 4th Karen Asrian Memorial tournament in Jermuk;[17] and came first at Winterthur.[18]

References

  1. ^ "33rd USSR Junior Chess Championship, Kirovabad, January 1984". RusBase. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
  2. ^ "34th USSR Junior Chess Championship, Yurmala, January 1985". RusBase. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
  3. ^ "35th USSR Junior Chess Championship, Daugavpils, January 1986". RusBase. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
  4. ^ "36th USSR Junior Chess Championship, Kapsukas, January 1987". RusBase. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
  5. ^ "37th USSR Junior Chess Championship, Ivano–Frankovsk, January 1988". Retrieved 1 January 2012.
  6. ^ "C.to Mondiale U20". LOTO – Lost Tournaments (in Italian). Italian Chess Federation. Retrieved 26 December 2015.
  7. ^ "RUS-ch 1994". 365Chess.com. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
  8. ^ Men's Chess Olympiads: Mikhail Ulibin. OlimpBase
  9. ^ Crowther, Mark (11 January 1999). "TWIC 218: XXVII Rilton Cup 1998–1999". The Week in Chess. Retrieved 2021-02-27.
  10. ^ Crowther, Mark (8 October 2001). "TWIC 361: 10th Monarch Assurance". The Week in Chess. Retrieved 2021-02-27.
  11. ^ Yasir Abbasher (2002-08-22). "Russian Ulibin is champion". Gulf News. Retrieved 26 December 2015.
  12. ^ Crowther, Mark (2002-08-26). "TWIC 407: 12th Abu Dhabi International". The Week in Chess. Retrieved 26 December 2015.
  13. ^ "St.Petersburg 300 Open January 2004 Russia". FIDE. Retrieved 23 January 2012.
  14. ^ "Biel: Master Open Tournaments". Biel Chess Festival. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
  15. ^ "International Open Zagreb 2010 – Group A May 2010 Croatia". FIDE. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
  16. ^ "International Championship of Central Serbia". Chessdom. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
  17. ^ "4th Karen Asrian Memorial". Chessdom. Archived from the original on 5 October 2011. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
  18. ^ "Winterthurer Schachwoche Meisteropen November 2011 Switzerland". FIDE. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
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