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Anton Korobov (born
25 June 1985) is a Ukrainian chess player.
He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in
2003. Korobov is a three-time Ukrainian champion. He was voted the best male
chess player of Ukraine of 2012.
Korobov won the Ukrainian Chess Championship in 2002,
2012 and 2018, and finished second behind Andrei
Volokitin in 2004.
He won the Masters tournament of the Abu Dhabi Chess Festival in
2010. In 2011, he came first in the Nakhchivan Open. He
competed in the Chess World Cup 2011, where was eliminated in the second
round by Nikita Vitiugov. In February 2012, he tied for 1st–3rd
with Mateusz Bartel and Pavel Eljanov in the
11th Aeroflot Open. Korobov took clear third place in the Ukrainian
Championship of 2013, behind Yuriy Kryvoruchko and Ruslan
Ponomariov respectively.
In the World Cup 2013 in Tromsø, Norway he
eliminated Vasif Durarbayli, Baadur Jobava, Daniil
Dubov and Hikaru Nakamura, but in the fifth round he was knocked out
by former World Chess Champion Vladimir Kramnik, after losing the
first game and drawing the second.
He served as Anna Ushenina's second during the Women's
World Chess Championship 2012 and during her match with Hou Yifan in
the Women's World Chess Championship 2013, alongside Alexander
Khalifman.
Korobov won the individual gold medal for his performance on board 2 at the
2013 World Team Chess Championship, contributing to the team bronze. Also
in 2013 he won the European Blitz Chess Championship.
In 2014 he competed in the 41st Chess Olympiad held in Tromsø,
scoring 4½7 points. In September 2015 he took part in the Chess World Cup
2015, where he was eliminated in the second round by Dmitry Andreikin,
after knocking out Dragan Šolak in round one. In the following month,
Korobov won the 16th Karpov International Tournament,
a round-robin tournament, in Poikovsky, Russia on tiebreak
over Victor Bologan, after they both finished on 6/9 points. In
August 2016, Korobov won the Karpov Tournament in Pokovsky one more time,
scoring 6/9. The next month, he played on the silver medal-winning
Ukrainian team at the 42nd Chess Olympiad in Baku. In 2018, he won an
individual gold medal at the 43rd Chess Olympiad as the best player
on the reserve board.