Valery Salov

Quick Facts

Full Name	Valery Salov
Occupation	Chess Player
Date Of Birth	May 26, 1964(1964-05-26)
Age	60
Birthplace	Wrocław
Country	Poland
Birth City	Lower Silesian Voivodeship
Horoscope	Taurus

Valery Salov Biography

Valery Salov is one of the most popular and richest Chess Player who was born on May 26, 1964 in Wrocław, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland. Valery Salov (born 26 May 1964) is a Russian Chess grandmaster who was once considered to be the third-best gamer worldwide.

An habitant of Spain He was took 3rd and 5th position in the strength of Category 19 in the Dos Hermanas International Tournament in 1997.

In 2009, at the Chigorin Chess Club in St. Petersburg, Salov delivered lectures in which he took up the role of a current “chess outsider” in order to critique the previous decade in chess. In particular, he discussed the problems raised by the increasing role of computers in chess opening preparation and the prospects for dealing with these problems by means of a shift from traditional chess to Fischer Random Chess (also called Chess960). He also discussed his views on several events in Russian politics.

In a long May 2015 interview with Chess-News (currently only available in Russian), he touched on a number of subjects, in particular, how for various reasons he was forced out of competitive chess (due to a lack of invitations), that the Kasparov–Karpov matches were a Kabbalistic “ritual” of Freemasonry, that the Kasparov–Anand match at the World Trade Center was related to the 11 September terrorist attacks in the United States, and other sundry theories. He is currently involved with political economy at universities near Madrid.

He took home his 16th Tilburg knockout tournament and the theme-based Polugaevsky 60th Birthday Tournament in Buenos Aires winning over Karpov using each color in the later.

Valery Salov Net Worth

Valery Salov is one of the richest Chess Player from Poland. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Valery Salov 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Salov earned his International Master title in 1984 and also the Grandmaster designation in 1986. Salov had been his World Under-17 champion in the year 1980 and also the European Junior Champion in 1983-84. He was a joint first- place finisher alongside Alexander Beliavsky in the 1987 USSR Championship, but he lost the tiebreaker with Beliavsky (+0-2=2). In the 1988 USSR Championship he finished tied third Artur Yusupov, who was in the middle of Anatoly Karpov and Garry Kasparov.

He twice qualified to participate in the Candidates Tournament in preparation for his participation in the World Chess Championship. The 1988 candidates tournament to the 1990 Classical Chess World Championship and he was defeated in sixteenth round (the first game) against Jan Timman (+0-1=5). At the Candidates tournament for 1996’s FIDE World Chess Champion, he took his first two games with Alexander Khalifman (+4-0=2) and Jan Timman (+2-1=5) to get to the quarterfinals. However, his opponent was Gata Kamsky (+0-4=3).

He has not played any FIDE-rated tournaments since January 2000.

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Valery Ranked on the list of most popular Chess Player. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Poland. Valery Salov celebrates birthday on May 26 of every year.