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Pavel Tregubov

Full name Pavel Vladimirovich Tregubov
Country Russia
Born 21 December 1971
Title Grandmaster
Peak rating 2658 (July 2008)

Pavel Vladimirovich Tregubov (Russian: Павел Владимирович Трегубов; born 21 December 1971) is a Russian chess Grandmaster and Deputy Treasurer of the Association of Chess Professionals.

He won the Corsica Masters tournament in 1997. In 1999 he tied for first with Simen Agdestein and Mikhail Gurevich in the Cappelle-la-Grande Open. Tregubov won the inaugural European Individual Chess Championship in 2000 in Saint-Vincent with 8 points out of 11 games. He is also the winner of the 4th Pivdenny Bank Chess Cup. In October 2011 he tied for 3rd-15th in the open section of the 15th Corsican Circuit.

Tregubov is one of the major practitioners of the Sicilian Taimanov Variation.

In 2015 he married Alexandra Kosteniuk.

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