Memorable Career
Results:
Linares 2004 - Blasted world no. 5 Alexei Shirov
and scoring a performance rating of 2744
Dortmund 2003 - Clobbered world no. 2 Viswanathan Anand
with black and finishing ahead of Peter Leko in the tournament
Linares 2003 - Crushed the world's no. 1 player Garry
Kasparov with black, in their first classical time confrontation,
ending the latter's six-year no loss streak in the tournament
Youngest Player to Enter the Top 100 in History
World Grand Priz, Moscow, 2002
Match of the New Century
Russia vs The Rest of the World
Olympic Debut - Bled 2002
Azerbaijan's Board 1 Player
Najdorf Memorial, Buenos Aires, 2001
Corus, Wijk aan Zee, 2001
Kasparov Cup, Moscow, 1998
Formerly the world's youngest Grand Master ever
First Grand Master Norm - Budapest, Hungary
December, 2000
Second Grand Master Norm - Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands
January, 2001
Final Grand Master Norm - Alushta, Ukraine
March, 2001
Seven
time World and European Youth Champion
Gold, Silver
and Bronze Medal Winner,
World Youth
Championship
Four Time
European Youth Champion
(Under-10,
10, 12, 18)
European
Youth (Under-18) Champion
World
Youth (Under-12) Champion
Cadet Kasparov World Grand Prix Champion
Hobbies:
reading, soccer, tennis,
swimming, billiards
Favorites:
Food: french fries
Drink: freshly squeezed orange juice
Personalities:
Alexander the Great and Napoleon
Chess Players:
Kasparov, Fischer, Karpov and Kramnik
Writer:
Alexandre Dumas
City: Baku
Information:
He has never really competed with other teens before.
His worst nightmare: Some day, for the first time in
his life, he will lose a game against someone who is
actually younger than himself.
Won the
European Youth (Under-18) Championship
in Litohoro, Greece at the age of 12,
the youngest among the 70 competitors.
His feet didn't even reach the floor when he sat.
Raised in the same city as Garry Kasparov.
Speaks Russian
and English.
Prefers to play against strong adult players from
whom he can learn.
Has studied the games of former world champions
Capablanca, Alekhine, Botvinnik and Petrosian.
Prefers active play like the styles of Tal, Fischer,
Kasparov, Spassky, Kramnik and Shirov.
"I like chess players with a fighting mood.
On the contrary, I don’t like drawers.
For me a chess player should fight till the end
and that’s what I like most in a chess player."
[The words that made Peter the king of draws
mutate into one of the world's most violent players?]
Loves chess because of the atmosphere of the
tournaments and his desire to prove that he can play
better than his
opponents.
Usually plays at the Internet Chess Club (ICC).
His handles or code names there are "Velimirovich"
and "Ubiyca."
He prefers the old World Championship Cycle
with Candidates Matches
and the long World Championship Match
than the FIDE Knock-out Championship.
"It is a matter of fortune because when you're
playing 2 games anything can happen.
Certainly, I prefer the old system of many
games in a row which decides the real winner."
Believes rapid chess events should exist alongside
tournaments with classical time control but should
never replace it.
Started
playing chess at 3 and a half years old.
At the age of 13, he has already traveled to 16 different
countries and likes Biel, Switzerland best.
Trains 7
hours a day.
Current trainer is GM Yuri Razuvaev.
Doesn't have a suitable coach at the moment except
for his Dad and the computers due to the fact that
it's hard to find one and mistakes can be costly.
Used to work with
Ragim Gasimov twice a week.
for 2.5-3
hours a day.
At the age of only 12, he started training
all by himself since paying for a coach
in a chess school was too expensive.
No, he is not a result of a Soviet cloning experiment on Kasparov.