Artur Jussupow

Artur Yusupov was born in Moscow in 1960 and learned chess at six. He developed at the city's Pioneers Palace and began a long collaboration with trainer Mark Dvoretsky. He won the World Junior Championship in 1977 and became a grandmaster in 1980. On his Soviet championship debut in 1979, he finished second behind Efim Geller.

Yusupov won the Tunis Interzonal in 1985 and shared first place in that year's Montpellier Candidates tournament. He reached three Candidates semifinals, losing to Andrei Sokolov in 1986, Anatoly Karpov in 1989 and Jan Timman in 1992. He moved to Germany in the early 1990s and won the German championship in 2005. His later tournament successes included a share of first at the 2002 World Open.

Teaching became another major part of his career. The school he founded with Dvoretsky worked with players including Peter Svidler and Sergei Movsesian. He served as a second to Viswanathan Anand and Peter Leko and wrote instructional books, including the Build Up Your Chess series.