Ivan Cheparinov
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Ivan Cheparinov, Heraklion 2007
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| Full name | Иван Чепаринов |
| Country | Bulgaria |
| Born |
November 26, 1986 Asenovgrad, Bulgaria |
| Title | Grandmaster |
| FIDE rating |
2688 (April 2017) (No. 57 in the December 2014 FIDE World Rankings) |
| Peak rating | 2713 (January 2008) |
Ivan Cheparinov (Bulgarian: Иван Чепаринов) (born November 26, 1986 in Asenovgrad, Bulgaria) is a Bulgarian chess grandmaster. He is a three-time Bulgarian champion (2004, 2005, 2012).
He learned to play chess at age five and progressed quickly, winning the junior championship of Bulgaria in 2000.
Until 2007, he was best known as the second of former FIDE World Champion Veselin Topalov.
In October 2006 Cheparinov shared first place at the Essent Open in Hoogeveen with 7/9, and also shared first place at the Morelia Open in 2007.
At the traditional Sigeman & Co invitation tournament in Malmö, Ivan Cheparinov won outright in April 2007. He shared first place—with six others—at the 2007 European Individual Chess Championship in Dresden, but Vladislav Tkachiev won the tie-break. On the January 2008 FIDE rating list, Cheparinov was for the first time rated higher than 2700—often seen as the line that separates "elite" players from other grandmasters.
In June 2009 and in June 2010, he won the Ruy Lopez Masters, an invitation tournament, its fourth and last edition in 2010 with a performance rating of 2904. In June 2011 he tied for 1st–2nd with Atanas Kolev in the 3rd International Albena Open chess tournament. In October 2011 he tied for 3rd–15th in the open section of the 15th Corsican Circuit.
In 2012 he tied for 1st–3rd with Ivan Sokolov and Jonny Hector in the Politiken Cup in Copenhagen, Denmark, winning the event on tie-break.
Cheparinov came first in the strong Gibraltar Chess Festival 2014, after winning the tie-break play-off.
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