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Aleksandr Sergeyevich Nikitin (Russian: Александр Сергеевич Никитин; 27 January 1935 – 5 June 2022) was a Russian chess player, chess coach, theorist;[2] and Master of Sports of the USSR (1952). He was an honored coach of the Azerbaijan SSR (1980) and the USSR (1986). Nikitin is also known as a coach of Garry Kasparov from 1976 to 1990.

Aleksandr Sergeyevich Nikitin
Full name	Aleksandr Sergeyevich Nikitin
Country	The USSR, Russia
Born	(1935-01-27)27 January 1935 Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR
Died	5 June 2022(2022-06-05) (aged 87) Moscow, Russia
Title	Master of Sports of the USSR (1952) International Master (1993)
Peak rating	2445 (January 1994)
Ranking	2430 (March 2021)[1]

Biography

Aleksandr Nikitin was born in Moscow. He attended and graduated from the Moscow Power Engineering Institute. After Nikitin worked on a production at the MPEI Special Design Bureau.

At the age of 17, Nikitin became a master of sports. He participated in a number of championships in Moscow (the best result in 1954 - 2nd-5th place), in an international tournament in Kislovodsk (1966 - 9th place) and in the 1959 USSR Chess Championship.[3] As a member of the USSR team Nikitin won the World University Championships (1955, 1957, 1958).

Nikitin retired from chess for a while, concentrating on scientific research, however he came back to the sport and became one of the most distinguished chess coaches in history.[4]

Nikitin made his debut as a coach in 1963, when he and Igor Bondarevsky prepared the USSR student team for the Olympic Games. From 1973 to 1976, he worked for the USSR Sports Committee as the national team coach and was a member of Anatoly Karpov's team, which helped him prepare for the failed World Championship match. There was a conflict between Nikitin and Karpov in 1976 and, as a result, Nikitin was fired from the Sports Committee.

In 1973, Nikitin got acquainted with Garry Kasparov at the junior tournament. Within the next three years, he consulted Kasparov periodically and from 1976 he was his permanent coach. Ten years later, Kasparov won his fifth and final world championship match against his great rival Anatoly Karpov, but in 1990 both a coach and his ward divided their ways.[5]

In 1992, Nikitin helped Boris Spassky during his exhibition match with Bobby Fischer. In the late 1990s, he served as the permanent coach of Étienne Bacrot, who became the youngest grandmaster in the world and the multiple champion of France.[3] Niktin was not only the coach of former French first grandmaster Etienne Bacrot, but also of Russian grandmaster Dmitry Yakovenko, individual European champion in 2012, who was fifth in the FIDE world ranking.[4]

In 1993, Nikitin was honored with the FIDE title of International Master. He also was given the title of "Honored Coach of the USSR."[2]

In 2019, Nikitin began to work on a book about Grandmaster Evgeny Vasyukov and his life.

Nikitin died in Moscow on 5 June 2022, at the age of 87.[2][6]

Writings

• Nikitin, Aleksandr (1972). Mikhail Chigorin (In co-authorship with Evgeni Vasiukov and Alexander Narkevich)[7]

• Nikitin, Aleksandr (1994). Sicilian Defense. Scheveningen (Co-author with Garry Kasparov)[8]

• Nikitin, Aleksandr (1998). With Kasparov, move by move, year by year.[9]

• Nikitin, Aleksandr (2020). My friend Evgeny Vasyukov[10]

Literature

• Linder, Isaac Maxovich, Linder, Vladimir Isaakovich (2009). Garry Kasparov. Life and the Game.[11]

• Editor-in-Chief Abramov, Lev Joachimovich, co-author Geiler, Grigory Moiseevich (1964). Chess Dictionary.[12]

• Editor-in-Chief Karpov, Anatoly Evgenyevich. Chess: Encyclopedic Dictionary.[13]

• To the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Alexey Fedorovich Bogomolov. Book 2. Essays on the Development of SDB MPEI in Persons. The period 1965-1988.[14]

References

External links

• Personal card of Aleksandr Nikitin at FIDE
• Biography of Aleksandr Nikitin at Chess Federation of Russia
• Chess games of Aleksandr Nikitin at Chessgames.com
• Personal card of Aleksandr Nikitin at 365chess.com
• Personal card of Aleksandr Nikitin at OlimpBase.org

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[ru] Никитин, Александр Сергеевич

Александр Сергеевич Никитин (27 января 1935, Москва — 5 июня 2022[1]) — советский и российский шахматист и шахматный теоретик; мастер спорта СССР (1952). Заслуженный тренер Азербайджанской ССР (1980) и СССР (1986). Тренер Гарри Каспарова с 1976 по 1990 год.

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