Mikhail Gluzman
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Mikhail Gluzman at the 35th Doeberl Cup in Canberra 1997
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 Australia
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| Born | 5 September 1967 |
| Title | International Master (IM) (1991) |
| FIDE rating | 2403 (October 2017) |
| Peak rating | 2447 (January 2000) |
Mikhail Gluzman (born 5 September 1967 in Kiev, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian-Australian chess International Master (IM) and an experienced chess coach.
Gluzman gained the title of International Master (IM) in 1991, after a strong performance in the Belgrade international tournament. In 1992 he migrated to Melbourne, Australia. He finished equal first in the 1992 Victorian Chess Championship, but lost the play-off match to GM Darryl Johansen.
Gluzman won the Australian Masters chess tournament in 1993 and, jointly with Guy West, in 2002. He also won the 36th Doeberl Cup in 1998, on tie-break from GM Darryl Johansen.
He represented Australia in two Chess Olympiads in Moscow 1994 and Bled 2002.
Gluzman won the Oceania Zonal Chess Championship held on the Gold Coast, Queensland in April 2001, after finishing equal first with Mark Champan on a score of 7/9, and then winning a rapid play-off match. He went on to compete in the knock-out format FIDE World Chess Championship 2002 in Moscow, Russia where he was eliminated in round 1 by Evgeny Bareev.
In 1994 Gluzman co-founded "Chess Ideas", Australia's first professional chess coaching business, in Melbourne, Australia. He successfully coached World Youth Chess Championship participants Denis Bourmistrov to finish =10th in the Boy's Under 10 Chess Championship in Menorca 1996, and Michelle Lee to finish =6th in the Girl's Under 10 Chess Championship in Oropesa del Mar 2000.
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