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Gert Ligterink werd Nederlands kampioen in 1979 en kwam in de competitie uit voor Unitas, Groningen, Rotterdam en Breda, om uiteindelijk weer bij Groningen terug te keren. Hij kwam 239 keer uit in de hoogste landelijke klasse en scoorde daarin 147½ punt. Als vaste teamspeler kwam hij voor het laatst in actie tijdens de play offs in Enschede in 2006 waar hij remise speelde tegen Peng en won van Lautier.

Zie ook:
* Columns voor het Tatatoernooi (voorheen Corus, voorheen Hoogovens)

* IGM Sergey Tiviakov
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* 1973
* Groningen

I was born in Krasnodar (USSR) on the 14th of February 1973. I began to study chess at the age of 5,5 years. Alexey Osachuk was my first coach. From 1980 until 1984 I was a pupil in the school of the Former World Champion Vassily Smyslov.

* 1989 – the start of the professional chess career. World Junior Champion U-16 (1989) and U-18 (1990).
* 1990 – end of the secondary school in Krasnodar. Since 1991 I am a Grandmaster.
* In 1994 I played a Candidate Match for the PCA World Championship Title (eliminated by Adams).
World Chess Olympiad Champion 1994 (in the team of Russia).
* 1995 – end of the studies in the Kuban State Agricultural University (Ecomony of Agriculture).
* Since September 1997 I live in Groningen (Netherlands).
* European Team Champion 2001, 2005 (in the team of the Netherlands).
* Dutch Champion 2006, 2007.
* Winner of the numerous tournaments all over the world.

Highest rating – 2700. On October 1, 2005.

Besides Russian and English, I also speak Italian, Dutch and Spanish languages. I have visited 54 countries and territories so far. I have been to all (besides Australia and Antarctica) continents. Hobbies – art, Russian pop music, book reading (especially on anomal, paranormal, ancient civilization, UFO and other subjects).