Andrey Esipenko

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Andrey Esipenko
File:Andrey Esipenko (2020).jpg
Esipenko in 2019
Full name Andrey Evgenyevich Esipenko
Country Russia
Born 22 March 2002 (2002-03-22) (age 23)
Novocherkassk, Russia
Title Grandmaster (2018)
FIDE rating 2463 (April 2025)
Peak rating 2723 (March 2022)
Peak ranking No. 24 (March 2022)

Andrey Evgenyevich Esipenko (Russian: Андрей Евгеньевич Есипенко; born 22 March 2002) is a Russian chess grandmaster. He won the European U10 Chess Championship in 2012, and both the European U16 and World U16 Chess Championship in 2017.

Together with 43 other Russian elite chess players, Espinenko signed an open letter to Russian president Vladimir Putin, protesting against the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine and expressing solidarity with the Ukrainian people. [1]


Chess career

Early career

Esipenko was born in 2002, and is from Novocherkassk in Rostov Oblast.[2] He started playing chess when he was five years old.[3] Esipenko became European U10 Chess Champion in 2012. He earned his FIDE master title in 2013. He secured all of his grandmaster norms by late 2017 and was awarded the title by FIDE in April 2018.[4]

From 30 May to 10 June 2017, he took part in the 2017 European Individual Chess Championship. He scored 6½/11 (+4–2=5).[5] His performance rating was 2618.[6] He won both the European U16 and World U16 Chess Championship in 2017.[2]

He competed in the 2017 World Rapid Chess Championship in December, scoring 7½/15 for a performance rating of 2622.[7] During the tournament he played a queen sacrifice against Sergey Karjakin, which Leonard Barden said may be "the move of the year".[8] He scored 11½/21 in the World Blitz Chess Championship, placing 41st out of 138.[9]

In February 2018, Esipenko participated in the Aeroflot Open. He finished fifty-seventh out of ninety-two,[10] scoring 4/9 (+1–2=6).[11] In March 2018, he competed in the European Individual Chess Championship. He placed forty-eighth,[12] scoring 7/11 (+4–1=6).[13]

2019–present

Esipenko competed in the Tata Steel Challengers in January 2019, placing second with 8½/13 (+5–1=7).[14] In March, he participated in the European Individual Chess Championship. He placed 16th with 7½/11 (+6–2=3) and qualified for the Chess World Cup 2019.[15] At the Chess World Cup, Esipenko defeated former FIDE world champion Ruslan Ponomariov in round one.[16] Paired against Peter Svidler in round two, Esipenko drew the classical games but was eliminated in the rapid tiebreaks.[17]

In January 2020, Esipenko participated in the Gibraltar Masters. He was sole leader after six rounds with 5½/6,[18] and ultimately shared first on 7½/10 for a performance rating of 2809. In a four-way playoff for the title, Esipenko was eliminated in the semi-finals by eventual tournament winner David Paravyan.[19]

Esipenko competed in the Tata Steel Masters in January 2021. In round eight he defeated World Champion Magnus Carlsen in their first game at a classical time control.[20] Carlsen opted for the Sicilian Defence, Scheveningen Variation to which Esipenko chose the aggressive 8.g4 line inspired by the Keres Attack.[21] This was Carlsen's first loss to a teenager (at standard time controls) since 2011,[22] and his first loss to a sub-2700 rated player since 2015.[23] Esipenko finished the tournament in third place, with 8/13 (+4–1=8) for a performance rating of 2815.[24]

In round four of the Chess World Cup 2021, Esipenko defeated GM Daniil Dubov in their blitz tiebreaker, after drawing the classical games and the rapid tiebreaks. He was then knocked out in round five of the tournament by Magnus Carlsen after blitz tiebreaks.

Esipenko also participated in the 74th edition of the Russian Chess Championship, held from 9 October 2021 to 20 October 2021. He finished third place on tiebreaks, with a score of 6/12.

In 2022, Esipenko participated in the 2022 Airthings Masters. [25] In the preliminary stage, he finished 4th with 24 points, thus qualifying for the quarterfinals where he beat Eric Hansen 3-1. He then proceeded to the semifinals, where Ian Nepomniachtchi defeated him by a score of 2.5-0.5.

References

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  1. ↑ "'Stop the war.' 44 Top Russian Players Publish Open Letter To Putin", Chess.com, 3 March 2022
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  15. ↑ European Individual Chess Championship 2019: Esipenko Andrey chess-results
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  22. ↑ Esipenko scores a thumping victory over Carlsen in Tata Steel Round 8, The Week in Chess, 24 January 2021
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  24. ↑ Jorden van Foreest gewinnt das Tata-Steel-Turnier ChessBase
  25. ↑ [1] ChessBase
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