Beliavsky Defeats Taimanov's Taimanov With 4 Queens On Board

Alexander Beliavsky (Belyavsky) was born December 17, 1953 in Lviv, Ukraine. He is now living in Slovenia. In 1973, he won the World Junior Championship. Beliavsky won the USSR Championship in 1974, 1980, 1987, and 1990. He was a candidate for the world championship in 1983 and 1985. In 1993, Garry Kasparov hired him as a trainer. Beliavsky is an endgame composer. He has written chess books. As of November 2009, shortly before his 56th birthday, he was the oldest player on the FIDE list of the world's top 100 players. He is listed #92 with a rating of 2648.

In this game the opening was the Sicilian Defense in the form of the Taimanov Variation, and the opponent was Mark Taimanov himself.