Nikita Vitiugov

Chess Player

1987 –

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Who is Nikita Vitiugov?

Nikita Kirillovich Vitiugov is a Russian chess grandmaster.

Vitiugov is 2006 World Junior Chess Vice-Champion and participant of the Russian Chess Championship. He was a member of the gold-medal-winning Russian team at the World Team Chess Championship 2009 in Bursa. In 2011, he tied for 1st-3rd with Evgeny Tomashevsky and Le Quang Liem in the Aeroflot Open.

In January of 2013 Vitiugov won the Gibraltar Chess Festival defeating defending champion Nigel Short in a rapid playoff. He and three others finished the tournament 8/10.

In the 2013 Alekhine Memorial tournament, held from 20 April to 1 May, Vitiugov finished fifth, with +1−1=7.

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Born
Feb 4, 1987
Saint Petersburg

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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