Dmitry Svetushkin Explained

Dmitry Svetushkin
Country:	Moldova
Birth Date:	25 July 1980
Birth Place:	Moldavian SSR
Death Place:	Chișinău, Moldova
Grandmaster (2002)
Peakrating:	2621 (November 2011)
Fideid:	13900463

Dmitry Svetushkin (Russian: Дмитрий Светушкин; Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan: Dumitru Svetuşchin; 25 July 1980 – 4 September 2020) was a Moldovan chess player.

He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 2002; Svetushkin represented the Moldovan national team in the Chess Olympiad and the European Team Chess Championship.

In the 2014 Olympiad he achieved a rating performance of 2809, the fourth best on board two.^[1]

Honours

• He won the Moldovan Chess Championship in 2000.
• He tied for 1st with Johan Hellsten and Marcin Szymański in the Ikaros Chess Festival 2003.^[2]
• In 2007 he tied for 2nd–7th with Kiril Georgiev, Vadim Malakhatko, Mircea Pârligras, Hristos Banikas, and Dimitrios Mastrovasilis in the Acropolis International Tournament^[3] and tied for 3rd–9th with Pavel Smirnov, Vladimir Malakhov, Evgeny Vorobiov, Murtas Kazhgaleyev, Vladimir Dobrov, and Aleksej Aleksandrov in the 3rd Moscow Open tournament.^[4]
• In 2008 he won the 2nd Gap Open.^[5]
• In 2010 he tied for 1st–3rd with Yuriy Kryvoruchko and Alexander Zubarev at Palaiochora.^[6]
• In 2012 Svetushkin won the 2nd International Tournament Isthmia in Vrachati on a tiebreaker from Eric Hansen and Shyam Sundar,^[7] and the 17th Bora Kostić Memorial, a category 14 round-robin tournament in Vršac.^[8]
• In 2017, he finished second in the 19th Sants Open in Barcelona^[9] and won the 3rd Ceramica Corund Open on a tiebreaker from Benjamin Gledura.^[10]

Books

• Book: Svetushkin, Dmitry. The Ultimate Anti-Grünfeld: A Sämisch Repertoire. 2013. Chess Stars. 978-9548782944.

Death

Svetushkin died in the evening at the age of 40 in Chișinău, Moldova. He allegedly died from being highly suicidal by jumping from a 6th floor building after talking on the telephone.^[11]

External links

• Dmitry Svetushkin chess games at 365Chess.com
  • People related to 1800s criminals from moldova

Notes and References

1. Web site: Men's Chess Olympiads: Dumitru Svetuşchin. Bartelski. Wojciech. OlimpBase. 11 January 2016.
2. Web site: TWIC 455: Ikaros Chess Festival . Crowther . Mark . 2003-07-28 . London Chess Center . 21 December 2019.
3. Web site: Ilya Smirin wins Acropolis 2007. 2007-08-26. ChessBase. 10 April 2011.
4. Web site: Illya Nyzhnyk wins Group B in Moscow Open. 2007-02-07. ChessBase. 10 April 2011.
5. Web site: 2e Open International de Gap. FIDE. 10 April 2011.
6. Web site: 3rd International Chess Tournament of Paleohora. FIDE. 11 April 2011.
7. Web site: GM Dmitry Svetushkin wins International Chess Tournament Isthmia 2012. 2012-08-27. Chessdom. 2016-05-17.
8. Web site: 17th Bora Kostic Memorial 2012. Crowther. Mark. The Week in Chess. 2016-05-17.
9. Web site: Rinat Jumabayev tops Barcelona. Densing. Gerd. 2017-08-31. Chess News. ChessBase. 2019-02-28.
10. Web site: TWIC 1195: 3rd Ceramica Corund Open . Crowther . Mark . 2 October 2017 . The Week in Chess . 21 December 2019.
11. Web site: GM Dmitry Svetushkin (1980–2020). Schulz. André. 9 September 2020. Chessbase.com. 12 January 2021.