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Ivan Sokolov (13 June 1968) is a Dutch-Bosnian chess Grandmaster. He won the Yugoslav and the Dutch Championships, the 2000 European Rapid Chess Championship, and was the coach of the gold-winning Uzbek chess team at the 2022 Olympiad. He beat Smyslov, Kasparov, Anand, Carlsen. pic.twitter.com/85lbMjPGDZ
— JustChessAndSports (@JustChessSports) June 13, 2025
Happy birthday to @GMSokolovIvan! Seen here on the way to defeating World Champion Garry Kasparov in the 9th round at Wijk aan Zee, 1999.
(????: https://t.co/djJ1Pugbjm.) #chess pic.twitter.com/iTbBiRQShv— Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess) June 13, 2025