Sergei Makarichev
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Sergei Yuryevic Makarichev is a Russia
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Chess
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 player, who gained the Grandmaster title in 1976.

Background

Makarichev gained the title of International Master in 1974 and became a Grandmaster in 1976.
His highest FIDE rating was 2550 in January 1991, which places him 84th in the world at that time. His best world ranking was 61st, in July 1983. He has not been an active player since July 1999.

Makarichev is a noted chess trainer. He was Garry Kasparov
Garry Kasparov
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's second in the 1985 World Championship
World Chess Championship 1985
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, and became a FIDE Senior Trainer in 2007. Alongside his wife, he has also presented chess programs on the Russian channel NTV Plus Sport
NTV Plus Sport
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.

Notable tournament results

  • 1973/4 European Junior Chess Championship
    European Junior Chess Championship
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     (Groningen) 1st
  • 1975 Amsterdam
    Amsterdam
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     2nd=
  • 1976 Moscow City Chess Championship
    Moscow City Chess Championship
    -References: ****** from chessbase.com...

     1st= (with Mikhail Tseitlin
    Mikhail Tseitlin
    Mikhail Semyonovich Tseitlin is a Belarusian chess Grandmaster.Tseitlin was twice Moscow Champion in 1976 and 1977. His best results in international tournaments are Pernik - 1st and 1st - 4th place; Nałęczów - 1st-3rd; Łódź - 2nd-4th; Hradec-Kralove - 3rd-6th; Prague - 1st place.Tseitlin...

    )
  • 1983 Moscow City Chess Championship 1st= (with Evgeny Sveshnikov
    Evgeny Sveshnikov
    Evgeny Ellinovich Sveshnikov is a Latvian, former Soviet International Grandmaster of chess, and a chess writer.-The player:...

    )
  • 1983 Novi Sad
    Novi Sad
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     1st=
  • 1984 Oslo
    Oslo
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     2nd=
  • 1992 Tal
    Mikhail Tal
    Mikhail Tal was a Soviet–Latvian chess player, a Grandmaster, and the eighth World Chess Champion.Widely regarded as a creative genius, and the best attacking player of all time, he played a daring, combinatorial style. His play was known above all for improvisation and unpredictability....

     Memorial 1st= with Nukhim Rashkovsky
    Nukhim Rashkovsky
    Nukhim Nikolayevich Rashkovsky is a chess Grandmaster and coach from Russia.His first meaningful chess moves were played at the Sverdlovsk Palace of Pioneers, one of many training schools for talented young players in Soviet Russia.He was a regular patron of the long-running Soviet Chess...

     and Mikhail Krasenkov

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