Ildar Khairullin (born 22 August 1990) is a Russian chess grandmaster. He learned to play chess at 6 years old. His first coach was Valeriy Pugachevsky. At eight years old, he became a Candidate Master and at 14 an International Master. After school, he began studying at the Saratov State Social-Economic University, but later transferred to the State University of Economics and Finance in Saint Petersburg.
Together with 43 other Russian chess players, Khairullin signed an open letter to Russian president Vladimir Putin, protesting against the Russian invasion of Ukraine and expressing solidarity with the Ukrainian people.[1]
Chess career
He has won the Russian Junior Championships at U-10 (Serpukhov, 2000), U-12 (Dagomys, 2002) and U-14 (Dagomys, 2003). In 2004 Khairullin won the U-14 World Youth Championship in Heraklion, going on to win the U-18 section in Belfort, France in 2005. That year, he finished second to Sergey Karjakin in the "Young Stars of the World" tournament held in Kirishi, Russia, narrowly missing a GM norm.[2]
In 2007 he was awarded the FIDE Grandmaster title. At the International level Khairullin shared 11th–21st place at the Moscow Open 2008, 3rd–7th Place at the Hogeschool Zeeland Open in 2009 and 2nd–4th place at the Capablanca Memorial Tournament (Premier) in Havana in 2010.
In the 2011 European Individual Chess Championships (which provided 23 qualifiers for the Chess World Cup 2011), Khairullin finished in 17th place. He was knocked out in the first round of the Chess World Cup 2011 by Ni Hua 3.5-2.5 after rapid tiebreaks.
In 2013, he tied for 1st–11h with Pavel Eljanov, Dmitry Kokarev, Vadim Zvjaginsev, Alexander Areshchenko, Maxim Matlakov, Denis Khismatullin, Oleg Korneev, Dragan Solak, Sanan Sjugirov and Ivan Bukavshin in the Chigorin Memorial in St. Petersburg.[5]
Khairullin shared 5th-20th place in the Moscow Open in 2014 with 6.5/9 and shared 12th–21st in the Russian Championship (Higher League) with 5/9.
Khairullin has played for a number of clubs, namely Russia's Economist SGSEU-1 (Saratov), Chigorin Chess Club and FINEC (both from St. Petersburg) and SV Wiesbaden in Germany. With the Saint Petersberg Chess Federation team, he won the European Club Cup 2011 in Rogaska Slatina, scoring 4.5/6.
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