Evgeniy Solozhenkin

Evgeniy Solozhenkin is a Russian chess Grandmaster.

Tournament results

1986 : wins, at age 20, the 59th Leningrad championship
1993 : wins the colossal Cappelle-la-Grande Open in France, above 19 GMs and 61 IMs
1998 : wins for the second time the championship of his hometown ; wins the "Heart of Finland" tournament in Jyväskylä
1999 : wins the 41st Reggio Emilia chess tournament; 5th at the Paris championship
2000 : 3rd at the Padua open, after Gennadi Timoshenko and Erald Dervishi.

For ChessBase he published the CD "Opposite-Coloured Bishop Endgames".
His daughter Elizaveta Solozhenkina is also a chess master.

Controversies

Solozhenkin accused Bibisara Assaubayeva on several internet articles of cheating during the World Youth U14 Championship in Uruguay in September 2017. The FIDE Ethics Commission suspended Solozhenkin for making unsubstantiated allegations of cheating. A group of grandmasters wrote an open letter in support of Solozhenkin. Assaubayeva's family sued Solozhenkin for defamatory allegations made in public and in the media that offended Assaubayeva's honor and dignity. The Moscow Appellate Court ordered Solozhenkin to apologize, disavow his allegations to the media, delete the defamatory articles, and pay a compensatory sum of 100 thousand rubles.