Georgy Evseev
Full nameGeorgy Aleksandrovich Evseev
CountryRussia
Born (1962-05-28) May 28, 1962
Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
World ChampionWorld Chess Solving Champion (1989, 1990, 1991, 1998)

Georgy Aleksandrovich Evseev (Russian: Георгий Александрович Евсеев; born 28 May 1962) is a Russian chess problemist.

Career

Evseev won four times the Soviet Union Chess Solving Championship (1982, 1984, 1986, 1989). He is the first chess player to win three times in a row the individual World Chess Solving Championship: 1989, 1990 and 1991. In 1998 he repeated the success for the fourth time.[1][2][3] In 1991 Evseev gained the title of International Solving Grandmaster.[4] In 2014 he convincingly won the Russia Chess Solving Championship.[5] In 2015 Evseev won the European Chess Solving Championship in Iași, Romania.[6] As of January 2016, he is the leader of the WFCC solvers’ ranking.[7]

References

  • Georgy Evseev Archived 2016-02-16 at the Wayback Machine chess games and profile at Chess-DB.com
  • Georgy Evseev problems at the Chess Problem Database Server
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