Roman Dzindzichashvili

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Roman Yakovlevich Dzindzichashvili (Georgian: რომან იაკობის-ძე ჯინჯიხაშვილი; Hebrew: רומן יעקובלביץ' ג'ינג'יחשווילי‎; born May 5, 1944) (pronounced jin-jee-khash-VEE-lee) is a chess Grandmaster (GM). Born in Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, he earned the International Master title in 1970.

He left the U.S.S.R. in 1976 for Israel, and earned the GM title in 1977. In 1979 Dzindzichashvili settled in the United States, and he won the Lone Pine tournament the next year. He led the U.S. Olympiad team in 1984.

He won the U.S. Chess Championship twice, in 1983 and again in 1989, sharing the title with two other players each time. He briefly took up residence in Washington Square Park in New York City, and hustled chess during the 1980s, making a living playing blitz for stakes as is popular there. He had a cameo in the 1993 film Searching For Bobby Fischer.

He is also the author and star of multiple chess instructional DVDs entitled "The Roman Forum."

He now coaches chess for the University of Texas and has many private students, including a few celebrities.

As a member of GGGg, he won the Amateur Team East tournament in February 2008. He was joined by two other grandmasters, Zviad Izoria, Eugene Perelshteyn and 5-year-old Stephen Fanning. Dzindzichashvili tutors both Stephen and his father John. John Fanning is an uncle of Shawn Fanning, the founder of Napster.

[edit] Dzindzichashvili vs. Fritz

Dzindzichashvili played a series of rapid games against the computer program Fritz in 1991 and 1993. In the following game he checkmates the program in only 28 moves.

Dzindzichashvili vs. Fritz, 1991 1.d4 e6 2.e4 d5 3.e5 c5 4.Nf3 Nc6 5.Bd3 cxd4 6.O-O Bc5 7.Re1 Nge7 8.Nbd2 O-O 9.Bxh7+ Kxh7 10.Ng5+ Kg6 11.Qg4 Nxe5 12.Rxe5 f5 13.Qg3 Rf7 14.Ndf3 Qh8 15.Nh4+ Qxh4 16.Qxh4 Rf8 17.Qh7+ Kf6 18.Nf3 Ng6 19.Bg5+ Kf7 20.Qh5 Rh8 21.Rxf5+ Kg8 22.Qxg6 exf5 23.Bf6 Rh7 24.Re1 d3 25.Re8+ Bf8 26.Ng5 Rh6 27.Rxf8+ Kxf8 28.Qf7#

[edit] Rybka vs Dzindzichashvili - A Pawn and Move

Dzindzichashvili played a series of eight games against the computer program Rybka from March 3 to March 7. Rybka was handicapped by a pawn and move. The series ended in a draw.

[edit] External links

FIDE rating card for Roman Dzindzichashvili
Roman Dzindzichashvili at ChessGames.com
Statistics at ChessWorld.net
Roman Dzindzichashvili at the Internet Movie Database

Preceded by Walter Browne and Yasser Seirawan	United States Chess Champion 1983 (with Walter Browne and Larry Christiansen)	Succeeded by Lev Alburt
Preceded by Michael Wilder	United States Chess Champion 1989 (with Yasser Seirawan and Stuart Rachels)	Succeeded by Lev Alburt