Vasil Spasov (chess player)

Vasil Spasov (sometimes spelled Spassov; Bulgarian: Васил Спасов; born 17 February 1971 in Varna) is a Bulgarian chess grandmaster. He won the World Junior Chess Championship in 1989, and the Bulgarian championship five times, in 1990, 1997, 2000, 2003 and 2008. Spasov also won the Balkan Individual Championship in 2001.^[1]

Vasil Spasov

Personal information
Born	(1971-02-17) February 17, 1971 (age 54) Varna, Bulgaria
Chess career
Country	Bulgaria
Title	Grandmaster (1991)
Peak rating	2621 (September 2010)
Peak ranking	No. 50 (January 1998)

He played for the Bulgarian national team in eight Chess Olympiads (1990, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2002, 2004 and 2006) and in four European Team Chess Championships (1992, 2001, 2003 and 2005).^[2]