Sportsoldat (Sowjetunion) - Sergei Leonidowitsch Kalinitschew, Alexander Baburin, Rustem Dautov, Shuxrat Safin, Zigurds Lanka (English, German, Paperback)

Kapitel: Sergei Leonidowitsch Kalinitschew, Alexander Baburin, Rustem Dautov, Shuxrat Safin, Zigurds Lanka, Waleri Alexandrowitsch Tschechow. Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Rustem Hazitovi Dautov (28 November 1965, Ufa) is a German chess Grandmaster of Tatar origin. In 1983 he won the USSR U18 youth championship and in 1986 the Belarusian Chess Championship. He completed his military service in the 1980s in the sports department of the Soviet army, which was stationed in the DDR. In this period he participated in various DDR tournaments: in 1984, he was second (after Valery Chekhov) in Berlin. Tournament victories include Dresden in 1986, Rostock, Halle and Dresden in 1987, and Minsk and Dresden in 1988. In 1989 he was awarded the FIDE title of International Master. In 1990, he won in Mnster and was awarded the Grandmaster title. The following year, he won tournaments in Porz and Bad Lauterberg. In 1992, Dautov settled in Seeheim-Jugenheim. Since 1996 he plays for the German national team. Between 1996 and 2004, he took part in five Chess Olympiads. His biggest success was in 2000 at the 34th Chess Olympiad in Istanbul, where he and his team got the silver medal (Russia scored gold). Dautov also scored two individual bronze medals, one for his rating performance of 2788 and one for his 8.5/11 score on the third board. Dautov won in 1996 (jointly with Artur Yusupov) the international German Chess Championship, he finished second in the championship of 1999. In the late 1990s he won tournaments in Bad Homburg (1997), Seefeld (1997), Essen (1999) (shared with Vadim Zvjaginsev, Emil Sutovsky and Larry Christiansen) and Deizisau 2002 (amongst others shared with Vladimir Epishin and Levon Aronian). He participated in the FIDE World Chess Championship 2002 and the FIDE World Chess Championship 2004, where he was knocked out in the second and first round respectively. Dautov took on professional poker in recent years. He...http://booksllc.net/?l=de