Mikhail Kobalia is a Russia

Russia

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n chess Grandmaster (1997).

In 1994 he won European Youth Chess Championship

European Youth Chess Championship

Since 1991, the European chess union organises the European Youth Chess Championship in the groups under 10, 12, 14, 16 and 18 year. Until 2002, there was also a tournament for the under 20, see European Junior Chess Championship.-Boys winners:...

 (U16) in Guarapuava

Guarapuava

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. In 2001 was clear first in the Chigorin Memorial

Chigorin Memorial

The Chigorin Memorial is a chess tournament played in honour of the chess legend Mikhail Chigorin , founder of the Soviet School. The first and most important edition was the one played in 1909 in St. Petersburg. Later on, the tournament was mainly played in the Black Sea resort Sochi. From 1993...

 at St. Petersburg. In 2005 came first in the Masters Open Tournament

Biel chess tournament

The first international Biel Chess Festival was held in 1968. A Grandmaster Tournament has taken place since 1977....

 in Biel. In 2007, he tied for 1st-6th with Vitali Golod

Vitali Golod

Vitali Golod is a Soviet–Israeli chess grandmaster.As of April 2007, his Elo rating was 2597, making him the # 7 player in Israel and the 152nd-highest rated player in the world. It is his peak rating so far.-Chess career:...

, Mateusz Bartel

Mateusz Bartel

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, Yuri Yakovich

Yuri Yakovich

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, Michael Roiz

Michael Roiz

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 and Zahar Efimenko

Zahar Efimenko

Zahar Efimenko is a Ukrainian chess player. He has been a grandmaster since 2002.-Chess career:In 1999 Efimenko won the U-14 World Youth Chess Championship in Oropesa del Mar, Spain. In the same year he was a member of the Ukrainian national youth team, which won the U-16 Chess Olympiad in Artek,...

 in the 16th Monarch Assurance Isle of Man

Isle of Man

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 International tournament. In 2009 he tied for 9th-11th with Boris Grachev

Boris Grachev

Boris Grachyov is a Russian chess Grandmaster .In 1995 he won World Chess U10 Championship in São Lourenço. In 2009 came first in the Masters Open Tournament in Biel, tied for 9th–11th with Mikhail Kobalia and Tomi Nyback in the European Individual Chess Championship and won the first Lublin...

 and Tomi Nyback

Tomi Nyback

Tomi Nyback is a Finnish chess Grandmaster and poker player.-Chess career:He won the Finnish Championship in 2008. In 2009 he tied for 9th-11th with Mikhail Kobalia and Boris Grachev in the European Individual Chess Championship...

 in the European Individual Chess Championship in Budva

Budva

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. He took part in the Chess World Cup 2011

Chess World Cup 2011

The Chess World Cup 2011 was a chess 128-player single-elimination tournament, played between 26 August and 21 September 2011, in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia...

, but was eliminated in the first round by Igor Lysyj

Igor Lysyj

Igor Lysyj is a Russian chess grandmaster.In 2006 he tied for first place, with Roman Ovetchkin of Russia, in the Zudov Memorial. he tied for 1st-8th with Sergey Volkov, Dmitry Bocharov, Aleksandr Rakhmanov, Valerij Popov, Denis Khismatullin, Dmitry Andreikin and Dmitry Kokarev in the Voronezh...

.

Notable games

• Mikhail Kobalia vs Michael Adams, FIDE WCh KO 2001, King's Indian Attack: Yugoslav Variation (A07), 1/2-1/2
• Mikhail Kobalia vs Ante Brkic, 10th European Championship 2009, Sicilian Defense: Modern Variations (B50), 1-0

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