Gennady Kuzmin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Gennady Kuzmin

Ukrainian chess master

Date of Birth: 19-Jan-1946

Place of Birth: Mariinsk, Russia

Profession: chess player

Nationality: Russia, Ukraine

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Gennady Kuzmin

  • Gennady Pavlovich Kuzmin (???????? ???????? ???????; born January 19, 1946) is a Ukrainian chess player and trainer.
  • He reached his peak strength in the early to mid-1970s and in 1973, was awarded the title of International Grandmaster by FIDE, the governing body. Kuzmin competed in the Soviet Chess Championship eleven times between 1965 and 1991.
  • His best results occurred in 1972 in Baku (3rd= behind Mikhail Tal and Vladimir Tukmakov) and 1973 in Moscow (2nd= behind Boris Spassky).
  • The Baku final was also a qualifier for the 1973 Leningrad Interzonal, in which he placed seventh of eighteen players. He was invited to compete at the Biel Interzonal in 1976, but withdrew.
  • A second Interzonal appearance occurred at Riga 1979, when he again finished in the top half of the table. In other competition, he achieved outright or shared first place at Hastings 1973/74 (with László Szabó, Tal and Jan Timman), Baku 1977, Tallinn 1979, Kladovo 1980, Dortmund 1981 (with Jon Speelman and Lubomír Ftácnik) and Bangalore 1981.
  • Other notable results included Lvov 1978 (third equal after Yuri Balashov and Rafael Vaganian) and Tallinn 1985 (second after Sergey Dolmatov).
  • In 1990, he was the Moscow Blitz Champion. He has three times been the Ukraine national champion in a period spanning thirty years; 1969 at Ivano-Frankivsk (shared with Vladimir Savon), 1989 at Kherson (shared with Igor Novikov) and 1999, when the title was shared several ways at Alushta. In team chess, representing the USSR, he was awarded a team gold and individual bronze medal at the 1974 Chess Olympiad, held in Nice, with a performance of +10 =5 -0, despite being selected only as a reserve. Gennady Kuzmin is a chess trainer in Ukraine and along with Yuri Kruppa, has helped rising star Kateryna Lahno become the world's youngest Woman Grandmaster.
  • He was also a trainer to Ruslan Ponomariov when he became the youngest (FIDE) world champion in history, at 18 years and 104 days.
  • He runs a chess school on the official website of the Ukraine Chess Federation, where players are invited to join group and individual study sessions.

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