Full name | Сергей Загребельный |
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Country | Uzbekistan |
Born | April 9, 1965 Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic, USSR |
Title | Grandmaster |
Peak rating | 2540 (July 2003) |
Sergey Zagrebelny (born April 9, 1965) is an Uzbekistani chess Grandmaster (1993).
In 1988 and 1990 he won the Uzbekistani Chess Championship. In 1992, as a member of the Uzbekistan National team, he won the silver medal in the 30th Chess Olympiad. He also played for Uzbekistan in the Chess Olympiads of 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, in the World Team Chess Championship of 1993 and in the Asian Team Chess Championships of 1993 and 1995. In 1998, Zagrebelny tied for 4-7th with Praveen Thipsay, Mohamad Al-Modiahki and Amanmurad Kakageldyev in the Asian Chess Championship in Tehran. He tied for first with Alexander Huzman, Victor Mikhalevski and Vadim Milov in Ashdod 2003 and with Vladimir Baklan, Aleksander Delchev and Adam Horvath in Balaguer 2005.
Zagrebelny is regularly active as a live-online commentator of major chess events broadcast on the Russian chessplatform Chesspro.
In the March 2011 FIDE list, he has an Elo rating of 2481, making him Uzbekistan's number eight.