Daniil Dubov
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Daniil Dubov, Tata Steel chess tournament 2013
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| Full name | Daniil Dmitrievich Dubov |
| Country | Russia |
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18 April 1996 Moscow, Russia |
| Title | Grandmaster |
| FIDE rating | 2661 (February 2017) |
| Peak rating | 2666 (June 2016) |
Daniil Dmitrievich Dubov (Russian: Даниил Дмитриевич Дубов; born 18 April 1996 in Moscow) is a Russian chess grandmaster. He completed his final grandmaster norm at the age of 14 years, 11 months, 14 days in 2011.
Dubov won the bronze medal in the European under-10 championship of 2006 and the silver medal in the European under-12 championship of 2008. He won the Russian U16 rapid and blitz championships of 2009.
In 2009 he won the Young Stars of the World - Vanya Somov Memorial in Kirishi. In the same year he played for the Russian team that won the gold medal in the World Youth Under-16 Chess Olympiad. Dubov also won the individual bronze medal on board two. In 2011 he played again in this event and won the team gold and the individual bronze on board one. Dubov won the Moscow Rapid Chess Championship of 2011.
In 2012, Dubov shared first place with Dmitry Andreikin and Nikita Vitiugov in the Russian Championship Higher League and qualified for the Superfinal of the Russian championship. In the latter he scored 4/9 points.
In January 2013, Dubov took part in the Tata Steel B tournament in Wijk aan Zee, where he scored 7.5/13 (+4=7-2) finishing fifth out of fourteen participants. At the Chess World Cup 2013 he reached the third round and was eliminated by Anton Korobov, after knocking out Sergey Fedorchuk and former FIDE World Champion Ruslan Ponomariov. In December 2013, he played a friendly six-game match with Alexei Shirov called "Battle of Generations", which was won by the latter.
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