1. Maxim Alexandrovich Dlugy was born on January 29,1966 and is an American chess player with the FIDE title of Grandmaster.
17 Facts About Maxim Dlugy
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Maxim Dlugy was born in Moscow, USSR, and arrived with his family in the United States in 1977.
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Maxim Dlugy was awarded the International Master title in 1982.
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Maxim Dlugy won the World Junior Chess Championship in 1985.
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Maxim Dlugy was awarded the Grandmaster title in 1986 for his result at the World Chess Olympiad in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
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Always a strong speed chess player, Dlugy was formerly ranked number one in the world by the World Blitz Chess Association.
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Maxim Dlugy graduated from the Dalton School in New York City in 1984.
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Maxim Dlugy was elected president of the United States Chess Federation in 1990.
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Maxim Dlugy was the first chess grandmaster hired by IBM to work on the Deep Blue chess computer project, in 1990.
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In March 2006, after returning to the US, Maxim Dlugy received a special invitation to play in the US Chess Championship in San Diego, California.
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Maxim Dlugy was one of the campaign managers along with Garry Kasparov for Anatoly Karpov when he ran for FIDE President in Khanty-Mansiysk, Siberia, in 2010.
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Maxim Dlugy operates Chess Max Academy, a chess school with locations in New York City and Connecticut.
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In 2013, Maxim Dlugy helped investigate a cheating scandal involving Bulgarian FM Borislav Ivanov, who according to Maxim Dlugy was using a device in his shoe that signaled him what moves to make.
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On two separate occasions in 2017 and 2020, Maxim Dlugy was suspected of, and later admitted to, having cheated himself in a Titled Tuesday online tournament run by Chess.
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On October 10,2022, Maxim Dlugy made a lengthy statement denying that he had done any actual cheating, defending Niemann, and denying any involvement with Niemann's game.
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Maxim Dlugy became a principal of the Russian Growth Fund, a hedge fund.
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Maxim Dlugy was imprisoned in Russia in April 2005 on charges of embezzlement, but he was acquitted and freed later that year.