Nikita Vitiugov
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Nikita Vitiugov at the Grenke Chess Open 2016
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| Full name | Nikita Kirillovich Vitiugov |
| Country |
 Russia
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| Born |
4 February 1987 Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Title | Grandmaster |
| FIDE rating | 2729 (April 2017) |
| Peak rating | 2747 (March 2014) |
Nikita Kirillovich Vitiugov (Russian: Никита Кириллович Витюгов; born 4 February 1987) is a Russian chess grandmaster. He was a member of the gold-medal winning Russian team at the World Team Chess Championship in 2009 and 2013. He won the Gibraltar Masters tournament of 2013.
Vitiugov was one of Peter Svidler's seconds in the Candidates Tournaments of 2013 and 2014.
Vitiugov was the under-18 Russian champion in 2005 and the runner-up at the European under-18 championship in the same year. He came second at the Russian Junior Championship both in 2006 and 2007. He finished runner-up in the 2006 World Junior Chess Championship.
In July 2006, he won the "Blue Sevan" round-robin tournament in Sevan, Armenia to achieve his last norm required for the title of grandmaster. In December of that year, he took part in the Russian Championship Superfinal for the first time, finishing eleventh.
He qualified through the 2007 European Individual Chess Championship for the Chess World Cup 2007, in which he was knocked out by Konstantin Sakaev in the first round. In September of that year he won the Russian Championship Higher League and qualified for the Superfinal. Here he tied for 4th–6th places.
In 2008 he won the Baltic Sea Cup in Bornholm, Denmark edging out on tiebreak score Boris Savchenko, and the Cup of Russia, defeating Savchenko in the final.
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