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Nikita Kirillovich Vitiugov ((ロシア語:Никита Кириллович Витюгов); born 4 February 1987) is a Russian chess grandmaster. He was a member of the gold-medal winning Russian team at the World Team Chess Championships in 2009 and 2013. Vitiugov was one of the Peter Svidler's seconds in the Candidates Tournaments in 2013 and 2014. ==Career== Vitiugov was the Under-18 Russian champion in 2005 and the runner-up at the European Under-18 Chess Championship in the same year. He came second at the Russian Junior Championship both in 2006 and 2007.〔(Interview ) Chessdom October 4, 2007〕 He was the runner-up in the 2006 World Junior Chess Championship.〔(Shen Yang and Zaven Andriasian World Junior Champions ) ChessBase News 17.10.2006〕 In July 2006, he won the "Blue Sevan" round-robin tournament in Sevan, Armenia with a score of 6.5/9 and thanks to this achievement he gained his final Grandmaster norm.〔(TWIC 611 )〕〔(GM title application )〕 In December of that year he took part in the Russian Championship Superfinal for the first time and placed 11th.〔(Evgeny Alekseev wins Russian Superfinal ) ChessBase News 16.12.2006〕 In April 2007, Vitiugov participated for the first time in the European Individual Chess Championship and scored 7.5/11.〔(8th European Individual Chess Championship 2007 ) Chess-Results〕 Thanks to this result he qualified for the Chess World Cup 2007, in which he was knocked out by Konstantin Sakaev in the first round. In September of that year he won the Russian Championship Higher League and qualified for the Superfinal for the second year in a row.〔(60th Championship of Russia (Higher league) ) TWIC 671 17.09.2007〕 In the latter he finished equal fourth, sixth on tiebreak.〔(Alexander the First wins Russian Championship Superfinal ) ChessBase News December 31, 2007〕 In 2008 he won the Baltic Sea Cup〔(TWIC 718 )〕 and the Cup of Russia, defeating Boris Savchenko in the final.〔http://www.ruschess.com〕〔(Brief TV report ) YouTube November 17, 2008〕 In November 2009, he took part in the Chess World Cup 2009: he sequentially knocked out Abhijeet Gupta, Gilberto Milos and Konstantin Sakaev, then lost to Sergey Karjakin in the fourth round. Vitiugov competed in the 62nd Russian Champioship Super Final and placed third with 5/9. Thanks to his results in the Superfinal 2009 and in the World Team Championship 2009, he crossed the 2700 Elo rating mark for the first time in the March 2010 FIDE rating list. In April 2010, he played in the 11th Karpov Poikovsky Tournament and finished equal third, fourth on tiebreak.〔(Karjakin, Bologan win Karpov Poikovsky tournament ) ChessBase News June 13, 2010〕 In March 2011, he tied for 1st-3rd with Evgeny Tomashevsky and Lê Quang Liêm in the Aeroflot Open, placing second on tiebreak. Vitiugov competed in the Chess World Cup 2011: he knocked out Alexei Bezgodov in the first round and Anton Korobov in the second one, before losing to Vladimir Potkin in the third round. In November 2011, he participated in the Saratov Governor's Cup, a round-robin tournament, in Saratov, but after nine rounds he withdrew due to illness; Vitiugov scored 4.5/9. At the end of December 201,1 he took part in the 54th Reggio Emilia chess tournament, scoring two wins, two draws, six losses.〔(TWIC 896 )〕 In June 2012, Vitiugov scored 7.5/11 in the Russian Championship Higher League, tying for first place with Dmitry Andreikin and Daniil Dubov, but eventually finished in third place on tiebreak.〔(65th Russian Championship Higher League 2012 ) TWIC June 28, 2012〕 In January 2013, Vitiugov won the Gibraltar Masters defeating defending champion Nigel Short in a rapid playoff. He and three others finished the tournament 8/10.〔(Nikita Vitiugov wins Gibraltar after tiebreak ) Chessdom February 1, 2013〕 In the 2013 Alekhine Memorial, held from 20 April to 1 May, Vitiugov finished fifth, with +1−1=7. He participated in the Chess World Cup 2013: after defeating Conrad Holt and Markus Ragger in rounds one and two respectively, he was eliminated in the third round by Alexander Morozevich. In October of the same year he finished third in the Russian Championship Superfinal with 5.5/9. In January 2014, at the Gibraltar Masters he scored 8/10 and tied for first place with Vassily Ivanchuk and Ivan Cheparinov. In the playoffs, after winning against the Ukrainian grandmaster he lost to the Bulgarian and eventually finished second.〔(Tradewise Gibraltar 2014: Masters round 10 )〕 In the following year's edition he finished with 7.5/10 and placed equal third, fourth on tiebreak.〔(2015 Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival - Masters ) Chess-Results〕 In August 2015 he finished third in the Russian Championship Superfinal with 6.5/9.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Tomashevsky and Goryachkina Become Champions )〕 In the following month, he competed in the Chess World Cup 2015, where he was knocked out in the second round by Le Quang Liem, after defeating Samvel Ter-Sahakyan in round one. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nikita Vitiugov」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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