Viktor Davidovich Kupreichik (, , Viktar Davydavič Kuprejčyk; 3 July 1949 – 22 May 2017) was a Belarusian chess grandmaster.
Career At the beginning of his career, he won the individual gold medal at the 15th World Student Team Chess Championship in Ybbs in 1968 at age 19.15th World Student Team Chess Championship: Ybbs 1968 – Individual Medals OlimpBase He won the Belarusian Chess Championship in 1972 and 2003.
In 1980, he was awarded the Grandmaster title.
He also placed first at Wijk aan Zee (Masters' tournament) 1977, Kirovakan 1978 (jointly), Reykjavík 1980, Plovdiv 1980, Medina del Campo 1980,Litmanowicz, Władysław & Giżycki, Jerzy (1986, 1987). Szachy od A do Z. Wydawnictwo Sport i Turystyka Warszawa. (1. A-M), (2. N-Z) and Hastings International Chess Congress in 1981/82. In 2002 Kupreichik won the Group B of the first edition of the Aeroflot Open.Tournament report April 2002. Aeroflot Open Group B . FIDE. In 2010, he won the European Seniors’ Rapid Championship.
The Kupreichik variation of the Sicilian Defence (1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 Bd7) is named in his honor.
A player of real fighting chess, he would often lead tournaments in the early stages and then run out of stamina and lose heavily in the last few rounds; for example, at each of the Soviet Championships of 1979 and 1980, he won 5 consecutive games, but only finished 6th on both occasions.The Soviet Championships, Cafferty & Taimanov, Cadogan (1998) - pages 183, 186
He died on 22 May 2017.Памёр Віктар Купрэйчык — шахматыст, які галасаваў супраць абраньня Лукашэнкі ў НАК
Family His niece is Anastasia Sorokina.
References
External links
Viktor D Kupreichik chess games at 365Chess.com