Biography

Russian Grandmaster (1989). Soviet Champion in 1986, Twice Moscow Champion in 1984 and in 1986. 

Best results: won or shared first in Minsk 1983, Nalenchuv 1986, Tashkent 1987; Protvino 1988, Sochi 1989, USSR Championship semi-finals in Gorky 1989, Stockholm Rilton 1990, Alushta 1994. Shared ninth place in the USSR Championship in 1984, and in the All-Soviet Tournament of Young Masters in 1985, he shared the fifth to the seventh place.

He was a member of the Russian Team which won the gold in the 1992 Olympiad and the bronze in the World Team Championship in 1993

In 1998, he was reported to have suffered from depression and two years later, he was discovered dead from a possible stroke in his flat in Moscow. .

Best ELO: 2620.

Vyzmanavin, Alexey (2470) - Naumkin, Igor (2325) Moscow-ch Moscow, 1984 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 b6 4.a3 Bb7 5.Nc3 d5 6.cxd5 exd5 7.Qa4+ c6 8.g3 Be7 9.Bg2 O-O 10.O-O Nbd7 11.Bf4 Nh5 12.Rad1 Nxf4 13.gxf4 Nf6 14.Ne5 Qd6 15.Rc1 Qe6 16.b4 b5 17.Qb3 a6 18.Rc2 Nh5 19.e3 Rad8 20.Ne2 f6 21.f5 Qd6 22.Nd3 Qd7 23.e4 Bd6 24.e5 fxe5 25.dxe5 Be7 26.Nd4 Rde8 27.f4 Bc8 28.Bf3 Qa7 29.Qc3 Rxf5 30.Kh1 g6 31.Nxf5 Bxf5 32.Bxh5 gxh5 33.Rg2+ Kh8 34.e6+ d4 35.Ne5 1-0