peakrating birth_place rating title fideid birth_date birthname article_title name
2630 -lrb- july 1993 -rrb- kiselyovsk -lsb- inactive -rsb- grandmaster 4100093 20 february 1959 Сергей Долматов sergey dolmatov
 sergey dolmatov
sergey dolmatov

sergey viktorovich dolmatov -lrb- born february 20 , 1959 -rrb- is a russian grandmaster of chess and former world junior chess champion .
born in kiselevsk in the former soviet union , dolmatov 's solid yet enterprising style of play was soon to launch him to the forefront of youth chess , culminating in him winning the world junior chess championship in 1978 .
he was awarded the title of international master in the same year and became a grandmaster in 1982 .
along with the titles , the early part of his chess career yielded many international tournament victories , including the amsterdam masters 1979 , bucharest 1981 , hradec kralove 1981 , frunze 1983 , barcelona 1983 and tallinn 1985 .
also notable was dolmatov 's second place -lrb- to vitaly tseshkovsky -rrb- in a category 11 tournament at minsk in 1982 .
however , as is often the case , such rapid early progress can be difficult to sustain .
despite winning at hastings -lrb- 1989 -- 90 -rrb- and qualifying as a world championship candidate from the strong manila interzonal of 1990 , dolmatov narrowly failed to convert his ` preliminary round ' match against artur yusupov the following year .
nevertheless , during this period his elo rating exceeded 2600 and he managed to maintain this level for the next decade .
as the new millennium approached , his frequency of play declined and since 2004 , he has been more or less inactive .
there was some success in the latter part of his ` busy ' period , notably the linares open of 2000 , but at the moscow aeroflot open of 2004 he famously lost a game to 13-year-old magnus carlsen in just 19 moves .
dolmatov has also been a chess writer in the early part of the 2000s , contributing opening surveys and tournament reports to chess journals such as new in chess .
as a player of the white pieces , he favours the king -lrb- or ` e ' -rrb- pawn openings and as black , shows a preference for the dutch defence , king 's indian defence and french defence .
in 2007 , dolmatov was awarded the title of fide senior trainer .
