Jussupow Artur Mayakovich (13.02.1960)
German Grandmaster (1980) born in Russia (Yusupov). German Champion in 2005, World Junior Championship in Innsbruck 1977. Jussupow moved to Germany at the beginning of the 1990’s.
A participant in six USSR Championships from 1979 to 1988, his best achievement was in 1979 when he came second after Efim Geller.
Best results: Amsterdam 1978, 1st; Esbjerg 1980, 1st; Vrbas 1980, 2nd; Can Picafort 1981, 1st; Yerevan zonal tournament 1982, 1st; Sarajevo 1983, 3rd; Linares 1983, 4th; Denpasar 1983, 3rd; Tunis 1985, 1st and Carthage 1985, 1st.
The same year Jussupow participated in the Montpellier’s Interzonal Tournament where he tied for first place with Andrei Sokolov and Rafael Vaganian. Being a Candidate he won in 1986 a match with Timman in Tilburg with the score 6:3, but succumbed the next match to Andrei Sokolov 6½:7½. In Winnipeg 1986 he was equal first with Viktor Kupreichik.
In the quarter-finals of the 1988-89 Candidate cycle, he beat Jaan Ehlvest +2=3 and in 1989 he defeated Kevin Spraggett with a score of 5:4, but in the semi-finals in London, he lost to Anatoly Karpov with 3½:4½.
In 1990 Artur was shot by a thief near his house in Moscow however it took him less than a year to recover.
The following year for the world championship cycle, he won Dolmatov with the score +3=7-2, later he beat Vasily Ivanchuk +3=3-2 then lost to Jan Timman in the 1992 semi-final match. In 1991 in Wijk aan Zee, he shared the first prize with Sergey Dolmatov, was equal first with Ivanchuk in Brussels-SWIFT and won Hamburg tournament.
In 1994 he lost to Viswanathan Anand in the first stage of the world championship cycle 2½:4½.
Appreciated coach in Germany and Switzerland, Artur has also been a second and advisor to both Viswanathan Anand and Peter Leko during their world championship campaigns.
Jussupow was a member of the Soviet Olympic team which won the 1984, 1986 and 1988 Olympiads and of the German team which took the silver at the 2000 Olympiads. He also participated in the match USSR vs. the Rest of the World in 1984.
The author of Build Up Your Chess with Artur Yusupov: The Fundamentals. Quality Chess (2007), Build Up Your Chess with Artur Yusupov: Beyond the Basics. Quality Chess (2008), Secrets of Chess Training (with Mark Dvoretsky, 2008), Secrets of Opening Preparation (with Mark Dvoretsky, 2008), Secrets of Endgame Technique (with Mark Dvoretsky, 2008), Secrets of Positional Play (with Mark Dvoretsky), Secrets of Creative Thinking (with Mark Dvoretsky), Boost your Chess (2010), Chess Evolution (2011).
Peak rating: ELO: 2680 in 1995.
