Mikhail Ulibin
Russian chess grandmaster (born 1971)
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Mikhail Vitalyevich Ulibin (Russian: Михаил Витальевич Улыбин; born 31 May 1971) is a Russian chess player, who was awarded the title of grandmaster by FIDE in 1991.
31 May 1971
Ulibin, Rilton Cup 2009 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | Mikhail Vitalyevich Ulibin 31 May 1971 |
| Chess career | |
| Country | Soviet Union → Russia |
| Title | Grandmaster (1991) |
| Peak rating | 2589 (July 2002) |
Chess career
He played in the Soviet junior championships from 1984 to 1988. Ulibin took the silver medal in the World Junior Chess Championship of 1991.[1]
In 1994, he finished second behind Peter Svidler in the Russian championship at Elista[7] and played for Russia's second team in the Moscow Chess Olympiad.[8] His team took he bronze medal.
He won the 1998/1999 Rilton Cup in Stockholm.[9] In 2001, Ulibin won the Monarch Assurance International tournament at Port Erin, Isle of Man.[10] In 2002, he won the Masters' tournament of the 12th Abu Dhabi Chess Festival edging out Evgeny Gleizerov and Shukhrat Safin on tiebreak, after all finished on 6½/9 points.[11][12] In 2003, he tied for 3rd–10th with Vladimir Belov, Alexei Kornev, Farrukh Amonatov, Alexey Kim, Alexander Areshchenko, Andrey Shariyazdanov, and Spartak Vysochin in the St. Petersburg 300 Open tournament.[13] Ulibin came first in the Master Open Tournament in Biel 2007[14] and in the Zagreb Open in 2010.[15] In 2011, he won the Central Serbia Championship in Paraćin;[16] tied for 2nd–6th with Konstantine Shanava, Maxim Turov, Robert Hovhannisyan, and Levon Babujian in the 4th Karen Asrian Memorial tournament in Jermuk;[17] and came first at Winterthur.[18]
