Igor Efimov (chess player)

Igor Borisovich Efimov is a Georgian chess grandmaster who plays for Monaco.

Igor Efimov

Efimov in 2014
Personal information
Born	(1960-09-16) September 16, 1960 (age 65) Tbilisi, Georgia
Chess career
Country	Italy (until 2007) Monaco (since 2007)
Title	Grandmaster (1992)
Peak rating	2540 (July 1997)

Chess career

He won the Italian Chess Championship in 1997 and 1998.

In February 2017, he won the Monaco Chess Championship, where he tied for first place with Igor Berezowsky but prevailed on tiebreak scores.^[1]

As of October 2020, he was one of two grandmasters in Monaco, alongside David Marciano.^[2]

In June 2024, he won the European Small Nations Individual Chess Championship by scoring 8/9 without any losses and finishing ahead of Fred Berend and Serni Ribera Veganzones.^[3]

In September 2024, he played for Monaco at the 45th Chess Olympiad. At the event, he was defeated by Daniel Quizon, who became a grandmaster after their game.^[4]