Anatoly Vaisser | |
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 Anatoly Vaisser, 2016 at World Seniors inMariánské Lázně | |
| Country |  France |
| Born | (1949-03-05)March 5, 1949 (age 76) Almaty,Kazakh SSR,Soviet Union |
| Title | Grandmaster (1985) |
| FIDE rating | 2436 (March 2025) |
| Peak rating | 2595 (January 1998) |
Anatoly Vaisser (born 5 March 1949) is a Soviet-born Frenchchess player. Awarded the titleGrandmaster by FIDE in 1985, he is four-time world seniors' champion.
Vaisser was born inAlmaty,Kazakhstan (then Soviet Union). In 1982 he won theRussian Chess Championship.[1] FIDE awarded him the titles ofInternational Master (IM) in 1982 and Grandmaster (GM) in 1985.
Vaisser shared first place withEvgeny Sveshnikov at the Chigorin Memorial inSochi in 1983,[2] tied for 2nd–3rd withViswanathan Anand, behindIstván Csom, atNew Delhi in 1987, and took second, behindVladimir Malaniuk, atBudapest in 1989. He tied for first in theCappelle-la-Grande Open twice: in 1987 withAnthony Kosten andJonny Hector, and in 1991 withMatthew Sadler.
Since 1991, Vaisser hasrepresented France. He won theFrench championship atNarbonne 1997,[1] and was twice runner-up (1996 and 2001).[3]
Vaisser played twice for France in theChess Olympiads of:
Vaisser has won theWorld Senior Chess Championship in 2010, 2013,[4] and, since the seniors' championships has been split into two divisions, also in 2014 and 2016 in the 65+ age category.[5][6][7]
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