Vadim Zviagintsev
| Vadim Zvjaginsev | |
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| Country | Russia |
| Born |
18 August 1976 Moscow |
| Title | Grandmaster |
| FIDE rating | 2661 (April 2017) |
| Peak rating | 2688 (January 2012) |
Vadim Zvjaginsev (Russian: Вадим Звягинцев, Vadim Zvyagintsev; born 18 August 1976 in Moscow) is a Russian chess grandmaster. He played for the gold medal-winning Russian team in the 1997 World Team Chess Championship and in the 1998 Chess Olympiad.
He graduated from Moscow State University (Faculty of Economics) in 1996.
Zvjanginsev won the European under-16 championship in 1992. Two year later, he tied for first place in the Reykjavik Open with Hannes Stefánsson and Evgeny Pigusov.
In 1997, at the FIDE World Championship, which took place in Groningen, he single-handedly knocked out most of the U.S. contingent. In consecutive rounds, he defeated Joel Benjamin, Gregory Kaidanov and Yasser Seirawan, before losing to fellow Russian GM Alexey Dreev in round 4. In the same year Zvjanginsev won the Vidmar Memorial in Portorož.
In 2000, he was first at Essen (ahead of Dreev and Klaus Bischoff) and triumphed there again in 2002 (this time ahead of Leko). At the Mainz Chess Classic in 2003, he finished joint second behind Levon Aronian, repeating his placing the following year. At the Russian Championships of 2005, he took 3rd place at the Kazan qualifier and finished joint 4th at the Superfinal. In 2006, he tied for 2nd at the Poikovsky Karpov Tournament, behind Alexei Shirov.
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