Evgeny Tomashevsky

In this name that follows East Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Yuryevich and the family name is Tomashevsky.

Evgeny Tomashevsky
Tomashevsky in 2018
Personal information
BornEvgeny Yuryevich Tomashevsky
(1987-07-01) 1 July 1987
Saratov, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Chess career
CountryRussia
TitleGrandmaster (2005)
FIDE rating2681 (December 2025)
Peak rating2758 (September 2015)
Peak rankingNo. 13 (September 2015)

Evgeny Yuryevich Tomashevsky (Russian: Евгений Юрьевич Томашевский; born 1 July 1987) is a Russian chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 2005. Tomashevsky is a two-time Russian Chess Champion (2015, 2019) and the 2009 European Chess Champion. He competed in the FIDE World Cup in 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2021

Career

Tomashevsky was born in Saratov on 1 July 1987.[1][2] He won the Russian under-10 championship in 1997 and the Russian under-18 championship in 2001, at the age of 13 years,[3] in Rybinsk with a score of 9½ points from 11 games.[4] In 2004 he finished runner-up in the U18 division of the World Youth Chess Championships.[5]

In 2007, he came second in the Aeroflot Open.[6] In 2009, Tomashevsky won the 10th European Individual Chess Championship after tie-breaks. The decisive match against Vladimir Malakhov went into armageddon stadium, where Malakhov blundered a rook in a winning position.[7] In January 2010, he played for the gold medal-winning Russian team at the World Team Chess Championship 2009 in Bursa.[8]

In 2011, he tied for first place with Nikita Vitiugov and Lê Quang Liêm in the Aeroflot Open, placing third on a tiebreak.[9] He was one of the seconds to Boris Gelfand for the World Chess Championship 2012.[10]

In February 2015, Tomashevsky took clear first place in the Tbilisi leg of the FIDE Grand Prix 2014–15 series scoring 8/11, 1½ points ahead of second-placed Dmitry Jakovenko, with no losses and wins over Baadur Jobava, Alexander Grischuk, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Rustam Kasimdzhanov.[11] His performance rating in this tournament was 2916.[12] In August 2015, he won the Russian Championship Superfinal in Chita, Zabaykalsky Krai with 7½/11.[13] The following year, he played for bronze medal-winning team Russia in the 42nd Chess Olympiad in Baku. In 2019 Tomashevsky won his second Russian Championship in Votkinsk – Izhevsk, Udmurtia with a score of 7/12.[14]

Partly for being a mostly positional player, partly for wearing glasses and being well-educated, Tomashevsky earned himself the nickname "Professor" among the chessplayers.[3]

In 2025, it was reported that Tomashevsky was the leader of a team of seven grandmaster coaches that the Russian Chess Federation had assigned to the ten-year-old chess prodigy Roman Shogdzhiev.[15][16]

References

  1. ^ "The Top Chess Players in the World: Evgeny Tomashevsky". Chess.com. Archived from the original on 26 May 2025.
  2. ^ "Title Applications". FIDE. Archived from the original on 17 July 2014.
  3. ^ a b Interview (2009). ChessBase.
  4. ^ Russian U18 Championship 2001: final standings after 11 rounds Archived 2016-03-05 at the Wayback Machine. chess.ufanet.ru.
  5. ^ World Youth Chess Championship 2004: Boys U18 Archived 2007-12-28 at the Wayback Machine. GreekChess.
  6. ^ "Aeroflot Open 2007: Evgeny Alekseev wins in style". 25 February 2007. Retrieved 20 August 2015.
  7. ^ "Tomashevsky wins EU Championship – by a hair's breadth". ChessBase. 18 March 2009. Retrieved 20 October 2015.
  8. ^ Crawley, Gavin (13 January 2010). "Bursa: Russia wins Gold, USA Silver, India Bronze". ChessBase. Retrieved 4 May 2010.
  9. ^ Crowther, Mark (16 February 2011). "Aeroflot Open 2011". The Week in Chess. Retrieved 20 August 2015.
  10. ^ Doggers, Peter (6 June 2012). "Boris Gelfand: "I was by no means inferior in this match" (Interview, part 1 of 2)". ChessVibes. Retrieved 1 September 2015.
  11. ^ "Tomashevsky wins Tbilisi Grand Prix - Closing Ceremony". FIDE. 28 February 2015. Retrieved 22 January 2016.
  12. ^ Ramirez, Alejandro (1 March 2015). "Tbilisi Closing". ChessBase. Retrieved 22 January 2016.
  13. ^ "Tomashevsky and Goryachkina Become Champions". Russian Chess federation. Retrieved 20 August 2015.
  14. ^ Pereira, Antonio (23 August 2019). "Girya and Tomashevsky are the 2019 Russian champions". Chess News. ChessBase. Retrieved 28 October 2019.
  15. ^ Barden, Leonard (27 May 2025). "Chess: annual national solving championship 2025 is open to entries from Britain". Financial Times. Archived from the original on 27 May 2025.
  16. ^ Svensen, Tarjei J. (25 May 2025). "Shogdzhiev Smashes Oro's Record To Become Youngest International Master In History". Chess.com. Archived from the original on 26 May 2025.
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