Maxim Sorokin
Maxim Sorokin was a Russian chess Grandmaster since 1992. In 1998–2002 he played for Argentina.
Individual results
His first big results Sorokin accomplished end of the 1980s. In 1989 he took shared 2nd place in Sotchi, in 1990 he earned the bronze medal in Minsk, at the USSR championship for players under 26 years of age, the Tournament of young Sovjet masters. In 1991 he became 3rd at the RSFSR championship. In 1991 he became shared first in Belgorod at the qualification tournament for the last USSR championship in Moscow. In 1992, the year in which the FIDE gave him the title grandmaster, he became shared 2nd, together with among others Sergei Rublevsky, in Ostrava. In 1993 he won the tournament in San Fernando, Buenos Aires and won the tournament in San [Martín, Buenos Aires|San Martín], Argentina,. In 1996 in Villa Ballester he became second, behind Andrés Rodríguez Vila. Also in 1996 in Elista he became shared fourth at the Russian [chess championship]. In 1997 Sorokin became first in Villa Martelli and second at the Clarín tournament in Villa Gesell, Buenos Aires. The result in Villa Gesell was one year later repeated by Sorokin. In 1998 he made his debute at the Argentina championship and achieved finishing at third place. Also in 1998, he won in Buenos Aires the Boca Juniors Open. In 1999 there were more successes: shared second at the Hanibal-Open in Linares, and in Calcutta and also in Krasnodar.In 2000 he became shared first at the Chigorin-Memorial in Saint Petersburg and at the Commonwealth Chess Championship, held in Sangli. In the years after, his international successes became less, allthough in many tournaments he still ended up in the higher part of the endresult list; for example: Calcutta, Dubai, Sankt Petersburg, Linares, Bombay, Uralsk, Cappelle-la-Grande, Salekhard, Moscow, Linares, Cappelle-la-Grande, Tomsk, Tsjeljabinsk and Nizhny Tagil.
In 2004 he tied for first with Saidali Iuldachev in the Murzagaliev Memorial in Uralsk, Kazakhstan.
In April 2005 his Elo-rating was 2599.
In 2007 he coached Sergei Rublevsky in the 2007 Candidates matches in Elista.