Adam Tukhaev

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Adam Tukhaev
Country Ukraine
Born (1988-02-14) February 14, 1988 (age 37)
Kerch, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Title Grandmaster (2007) [1]
FIDE   rating 2531 (July 2025)
Peak rating 2575 (September 2017)

Adam Ruslanovich Tukhaev is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster.

Chess career

In June 2015, he finished second in the 4th Kadyrov Memorial, half a point behind winner Boris Savchenko. [2]

In January 2017, he took the sole lead with a perfect score after the seventh round of the Chennai International Open. [3]

In March 2017, he won the Stockholm Chess Challenge after having a better tiebreak score than Erik Blomqvist, Ulvi Bajarani, and Nikita Maiorov. [4]

In December 2018, he defeated Magnus Carlsen in the first round of the World Rapid Chess Championship. [5]

References

  1. "FIDE Title Application (GM)".
  2. "Boris Savchenko Wins Akhmad Kadyrov Memorial". June 7, 2015.
  3. Pai, Nitin (January 22, 2017). "Chennai 04-06: Adam Tukhaev leads".
  4. Banjan, Priyadarshan (March 13, 2017). "Stockholm Chess Challenge: Adam Tukhaev wins".
  5. Pai, Aditya (December 27, 2018). "World Rapid Chess Championship: Magnus Carlsen suffers early upsets; Viswanathan Anand undefeated after day one".