Andrey Rychagov

Andrey Rychagov
Rychagov in 2015
Personal information
Born (1979-08-03) August 3, 1979 (age 47)
Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Chess career
CountryRussia
TitleGrandmaster (2006)
FIDE rating2546 (October 2026)
Peak rating2586 (January 2007)

Andrey Valerievich Rychagov is a Russian chess grandmaster.

Chess career

He was awarded the Grandmaster title in 2006, after achieving his norms at the:

In 2009, he tied for 1st–5th with Sergey Volkov, Hrant Melkumyan, Andrei Deviatkin, and Zhou Weiqi in the Chigorin Memorial.

In June 2015, he tied for second place with Aleksey Goganov, Zaven Andriasian, Evgeny Vorobiov, and Vladimir Ponfilenok in the Rashid Nezhmetdinov Memorial.

In September 2017, he won the Moscow Blitz Championship, defeating Alexey Korotylev in a tiebreak match.

References

  1. 1 2 "FIDE Title Application (GM)".
  2. ↑ "M.Chigorin Memorial 2009". World Chess Federation. Retrieved 20 March 2011.
  3. ↑ "Denis Khismatullin Wins Rashid Nezhmetdinov Memorial". June 9, 2015.
  4. ↑ "Andrey Rychagov Wins Moscow Blitz Championship". September 4, 2017.