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Andrey Lukin
Country Soviet Union
 Russia
Born (1948-08-28) August 28, 1948 (age 76)
Leningrad, Soviet Union
TitleInternational Master (1982)
FIDE rating2407 (December 2024)
Peak rating2485 (January 1983)

Andrei Lukin (Russian: Андрей Лукин, born August 28, 1948) is a chess International Master and a chess coach.

Chess career

He was one of the strongest junior chess players in the Soviet Union in the late 60s, qualified for the World Juniors in 1967 ahead of Karpov, Balashov and other very strong players, and was subsequently denied his shot at the title by the fact that the event was held in Israel, which at the time was a no-fly zone for Soviet sportsmen.

Since then his career failed to live up to the earlier promise, but he still became an International Master and won five Leningrad (Saint Petersburg) championships, which at the time were equal in strength to a national championship of an average European country, with many titled players taking part. Unlike majority of the other players of his level, he managed to combine his chess playing with a nine to five job as an engineer.

Andrei went into coaching in the late 1980s and since then helped many young chess players in Saint Petersburg, leading Konstantin Sakaev to a World Junior title. In 1993 he started to work with Peter Svidler, who credits him as the biggest influence in his career.

References

  1. "KC-Conference with Peter Svidler: Part 2". Crestbook. Retrieved 22 January 2015.

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