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Anatoly Vaisser
(born 5 March 1949) is a Soviet-born French
chess
player. Awarded the title
Grandmaster
by FIDE in 1985, he is four-time world seniors' champion.
Biography and career
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Vaisser was born in
Almaty
,
Kazakhstan
(then Soviet Union). In 1982 he won the
Russian Chess Championship
.
[1]
FIDE awarded him the titles of
International Master
(IM) in 1982 and Grandmaster (GM) in 1985.
Vaisser shared first place with
Evgeny Sveshnikov
at the Chigorin Memorial in
Sochi
in 1983,
[2]
tied for 2nd?3rd with
Viswanathan Anand
, behind
Istvan Csom
, at
New Delhi
in 1987, and took second, behind
Vladimir Malaniuk
, at
Budapest
in 1989. He tied for first in the
Cappelle-la-Grande Open
twice: in 1987 with
Anthony Kosten
and
Jonny Hector
, and in 1991 with
Matthew Sadler
.
Since 1991, Vaisser has
represented
France. He won the
French championship
at
Narbonne
1997,
[1]
and was twice runner-up (1996 and 2001).
[3]
Vaisser played twice for France in the
Chess Olympiads
of:
Vaisser has won the
World Senior Chess Championship
in 2010, 2013,
[4]
and, since the seniors' championships has been split into two divisions, also in 2014 and 2016 in the 65+ age category.
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Notable games
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See also
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