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RUS · 37 yrs · K=10 · Peak 2463 (Oct 2013)

Best performance: 2619 at CZECH OPEN 2016 - Q3 - blitz tournament(Best of 2016)

World #=2779 live, down 222#2,557 publishedRussia #=219Asia #=616among active players

NOV26 Rating

2284

Live Rating

2274.0

Change

-10.0

Games Played

13

How live ratings are calculated

Rating History · Blitz

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Blitz rating 2297 to 2284 over the last 12 months; peak 2463 in October 2013.

Official rating by month

Each month: the rating, its change from the list before, and the rated games FIDE counted.

ListClassicalRapidBlitz
Nov 20262401, 0, 0 games2253, -9, 11 games2284, -13, 13 games
Oct 20262401, 0, 0 games2262, 0, 0 games2297, 0, 0 games
Sep 20262401, 0, 0 games2262, 0, 0 games2297, 0, 0 games
Aug 20262401, 0, 0 games2262, 0, 0 games2297, 0, 0 games
Jul 20262401, 0, 0 games2262, 0, 0 games2297, 0, 0 games
Jun 20262401, -11, 9 games2262, 0, 0 games2297, 0, 0 games
May 20262412, 0, 0 games2262, 0, 0 games2297, 0, 0 games
Apr 20262412, 0, 0 games2262, 0, 0 games2297, 0, 0 games
Mar 20262412, 0, 0 games2262, 0, 0 games2297, 0, 0 games
Feb 20262412, 0, 0 games2262, 0, 0 games2297, 0, 0 games
Jan 20262412, 0, 0 games2262, 0, 0 games2297, 0, 0 games
Dec 20252412, 0, 0 games2262, 0, 0 games2297, 0, 0 games
Working toward the Grandmaster title2 tracked norms · 18/27 gamesrating 2456 of 2500, live 2401composition metdetails ↓

Form · Blitz

oldest → latest

Longest unbeaten run in 2026: 5 games, Oct 19.

From 458 blitz games on record, the latest on Oct 19.

Blitz games since the November list

Show gamesTournamentScoreChange
Чемпионат России 2026 года среди мужских команд по блицу Blitz_Team Men Champ. 2026Oct 19TPR 22316½/13-10.0

Title Progress

GM title progress

Working toward the Grandmaster title

Tracked norms: 2 · 18 of 27 games credit

Rating: peak 2456, needs 2500

No outstanding composition requirement

projectedM.Chigorin Memorial 2010Nov 20106/9Rp 2614
projectedM.Chigorin Memorial 2013Oct 20136/9Rp 2612

Based on events we cover plus the FIDE norm registers of all federations. Norms filed elsewhere may not show up here yet.

Best wins · Blitz

From 439 rated blitz games against rated opponents, 2012–2026

#OpponentRating
1, GM Ivan Bukavshin, Aug 2013 · Petersburg Summer 2013 Blitz, 2671
2, GM Aleksandr Shimanov, Apr 2022 · I.Blechzin Memorial 2022 Blitz, 2636
3, GM Maxim Rodshtein, Aug 2014 · Petersburg Summer 2014 Blitz, 2627

Openings · Blitz

From the moves of 10 of 458 blitz games on record.

As WhiteOpens 1.e4 in 5 of 5 games.

As BlackMeets 1.e4 with 1...c5.

All openings (1 as White, 1 as Black)
Openings in White gamesGamesScore
Sicilian Defense367%

2 more games in openings played fewer than 3 times.

Event timeline · Blitz

37 events

Events before the current rating period show the performance, not a rating change.

Live events show the rating change; earlier events show the performance rating.

Performance rating by year

YearGamesScoreAvg oppTPR
20262612½22392225
20252612½22422228
2024352121982270
2023137½22242281
20222215½21992348
2021117½22082341
2020117½21602293
201911620582094
2018422522432315
2017443122352384
20169964½22572367
2014311722922328

Games count in the month they were played. Each month and year is one performance rating over all of its rated games.

Recent opponents · Blitz

IM Aleksandr E. UsovIM Yaroslav RemizovFM Famil KishievFM Kirill OtdelnovFM Alexei BorshchIlia BelmeskinFM Tigran NazaretyanLev RezvyMakar BerdashkevichEduard BalayanNikita TrubnikovFM Arthur MuromtsevEvgeny Goliakov

Rated near Igor Malakhov · Blitz

World

  1. #=2779IM Christopher Leonel Garzon Zapatanga2274.0
  2. #=2779FM Kilian Slovak2274.0
  3. #=2779IM Igor Malakhov2274.0
  4. #=2779FM Alejandro Mateus2274.0
  5. #=2779FM Patrick Burkart2274.0

Russia

  1. #=219FM Maxim Rudometov2274.0
  2. #=219FM Dmitry Borisovsky2274.0
  3. #=219IM Igor Malakhov2274.0
  4. #222Mikhail Karpukhin2273.2
  5. #223Vladislav Gontcharov2271.1

Live rating: FIDE’s November list plus every rated game played since. Not affiliated with FIDE.