Maxim Dlugy | |
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Dlugy at the press room of the World Chess Championship 2012, Moscow | |
Full name | Maxim Alexandrovich Dlugy |
Country | ![]() |
Born | Moscow, Soviet Union | January 29, 1966
Title | Grandmaster (1986) |
FIDE rating | 2513 (July 2022) |
Peak rating | 2570 (January 1989) |
Maxim Alexandrovich Dlugy[1][2] (born January 29, 1966) is an American chess player with the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM).[3] He was born in Moscow, USSR, and arrived with his family in the United States in 1977. He was awarded the International Master (IM) title in 1982.[3] He won the World Junior Chess Championship in 1985.[4] He was awarded the Grandmaster title in 1986 for his result at the World Chess Olympiad in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, where he played on the U.S. team that was in first place going into the last round.[3][5] Always a strong speed chess player, Dlugy was formerly ranked number one in the world by the World Blitz Chess Association.[citation needed]
In 1984 he finished 3rd in the U.S. Chess Championship. He was 2nd= in New York 1985, 2nd= in Clichy 1986–87 and 3rd= in the 1987 U.S. Chess Championship. He graduated from the Dalton School in New York City in 1984.[6]
He was elected president of the United States Chess Federation in 1990.
Dlugy worked on Wall Street. He became a principal of the Russian Growth Fund, a hedge fund. Former world chess champion Garry Kasparov was formerly associated with Dlugy's Russian Growth Fund.
In March 2006, after returning to the US, Dlugy received a special invitation to play in the U.S. Chess Championship in San Diego, California. He achieved a plus score.
Dlugy was one of the campaign managers along with Garry Kasparov for Anatoly Karpov when he ran for FIDE President in Khanty-Mansiysk, Siberia in 2010.
On April 28, 2015, Dlugy lost a 3-minute blitz game to an amateur 12-year-old Mumbai boy, Shrayan ‘Sunny’ Majumder, who went by the alias of 'Trickymate' with an Azerbaijan flag due to his aversion to publicity.[7] Majumder, who was rated 1400 Elo against Dlugy's 3131, made an unusual sequences of move in the Budapest Gambit (b6 and Bb7), sacrificing his bishop. Sensing a trap, Dlugy nevertheless decided to satiate his curiosity, only to get his queen trapped before eventually realizing he was about to be checkmated. The subsequent game received 1.1 million views on YouTube and received more than 23,000 upvotes on Reddit.[8][9]
Maxim is founder of Chess Max Academy is one of the leading Chess schools in NYC. The academies located on
Upper West side and Upper East side of Manhattan, Greenwich CT and raised over 30 National and one World Chess champion among their students in the last 8 years. Academy has worked with GM Hans Neuman and many other chess players.
Maxim is married and currently lives with his family on Upper West side of New York.
References
- ^ "Персона Дня - МАКСИМ ДЛУГИ" [Person of the Day - Maxim Dlugy]. ruchess.ru (in Russian). Russian Chess Federation. January 29, 2021. Retrieved November 6, 2020.
- ^ "Article on Dlugy's arrest in Russia". nevod.ru. Retrieved November 6, 2020.
- ^ a b c "Dlugy, Maxim". FIDE.com.
- ^ "Former Champions". 2008 World Junior Chess Championship.
- ^ "27th Chess Olympiad: Dubai 1986". OlimpBase.org.
- ^ "GM Max Dlugy aquitted [sic] in $9 million embezzlement charge". Chess News. December 21, 2005. Retrieved August 22, 2020.
- ^ "Meet TrickyMate, the 12-year Old Genius Indian Chess Player Who Defeated Grandmaster Max Dlugy | The Bayside Journal". web.archive.org. November 24, 2015. Retrieved April 23, 2022.
- ^ GM Max Dlugy plays Banter Blitz games on Chessclub.com - 2015-04-28, retrieved April 23, 2022
- ^ "Chess grandmaster gets tricked into a checkmate by an amateur with the username :"Trickymate"".
External links
- Official website
- Maxim Dlugy rating card at FIDE
- Maxim Dlugy rating and tournament record at US Chess Federation
- Maxim Dlugy FIDE rating history at OlimpBase.org
- Maxim Dlugy Chess Olympiad record at OlimpBase.org
- Maxim Dlugy player profile and games at Chessgames.com
- Chess Max Academyofficial website