About Valery Popov
Born 1974. Valery Popov is a Russian chess player.
Valerij Sergeyevich Popov (born 10 September 1974) is a Russian chess player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 1999.
Popov won the championship of Saint Petersburg, his native city, in 2001 and 2006. In 2014 he shared first place with Denis Yevseev, who took the title on tiebreak score. Popov competed in the inaugural FIDE World Cup in 2005. Here he was knocked out by Alexander Onischuk in the first round by a score of ½–1½.
In 2008, Popov finished second in the European Rapid Chess Championship in Warsaw, Poland with a score of 10½/13 points. Ten years later, he took the gold medal in this championship in Skopje, Macedonia with the same score.
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Who is Valery Popov?
Russian chess player
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Valery Popov was born on 10 September 1974 in Saint Petersburg.
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Valery Popov is a chess player.
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Valery Popov is Russian.
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