Editing Emil Sutovsky (section)

==Successes==
Sutovsky learned to play chess at the age of four.<ref name="Emil Sutovsky-Ilija Smirin, Tel Aviv 2002">{{cite book|last=Burgess|first=Graham|author2=Nunn, John |author3=Emms, John |title=The World's Greatest Chess Games|publisher=Robinson|location=London|year=2004|page=615|isbn=1-84119-905-2}}</ref> He achieved notable successes by winning the [[World Junior Chess Championship]] in [[Medellín]] in 1996, finishing first at the double [[Round-robin tournament|round-robin]] VAM Hoogeveen Tournament in 1997 (ahead of [[Judit Polgár]], [[Loek van Wely]], and [[Vasily Smyslov]]) and winning [[Hastings International Chess Congress|Hastings]] 2000 (ahead of [[Alexey Dreev]], [[Ivan Sokolov (chess player)|Ivan Sokolov]] and [[Jonathan Speelman]]).

In 2001, Sutovsky won the [[European Individual Chess Championship]] after rapid tiebreaks with [[Ruslan Ponomariov]].

In 2003, he tied for first with [[Alexander Beliavsky]] in the [[Vidmar Memorial]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sah-zveza.si/mv12/mvarc.html|title=Dr. Milan Vidmar Memorial Tournaments|publisher=sah-zveza.si|access-date=6 April 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120208055909/http://www.sah-zveza.si/mv12/mvarc.html|archive-date=8 February 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 2007, he placed second at the 8th European Chess Championship, held in [[Dresden]], following a play-off with the eventual winner GM [[Vladislav Tkachiev]] and GMs [[Dmitry Jakovenko]] and [[Ivan Cheparinov]].

He finished tied for first in two major open tournaments in 2005: in the [[Gibraltar Chess Festival]] he scored 7.5−2.5 (the same score as [[Levon Aronian]], [[Zahar Efimenko]], [[Kiril Georgiev]], and [[Alexei Shirov]]),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.theweekinchess.com/html/twic535.html#3|title=TWIC 535: Gibtele.com Masters International|last=Crowther|first=Mark|date=2005-02-07|publisher=The Week in Chess|access-date=26 January 2012}}</ref> and at the [[Aeroflot Open]] in [[Moscow]] he scored 6.5−2.5 (the same as [[Vasily Ivanchuk]], [[Alexander Motylev]], [[Andrei Kharlov]], and [[Vladimir Akopian]]). His superior tie-break in the latter gave him first place (ahead of top players such as Aronian, [[Teimour Radjabov]], [[Shakhriyar Mamedyarov]], Ponomariov, [[Sergey Karjakin]], et al.) and with it an invitation to the prestigious [[Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting|Dortmund tournament]] later in the year, in which he beat classical world champion [[Vladimir Kramnik]] [http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1347860], scoring 3.5−5.5.

Sutovsky played in three [[FIDE]] Knock-out [[World Chess Championship|World Championships]]: in 1997 he was eliminated in the first round by [[Gildardo García]]; in 2000 he was eliminated in the first round by [[Igor Nataf]]; in 2001 he was eliminated in round three by the eventual runner-up [[Vasyl Ivanchuk]].

He did not participate in the controversial [[FIDE World Chess Championship 2004]] because of concerns about how its host, [[Libya]], would treat Israeli players.

He took part in [[Chess World Cup 2005]], [[Chess World Cup 2007]], [[Chess World Cup 2009]] and [[Chess World Cup 2011]] with a moderate success.
In 2007, Sutovsky became a [[Glossary of chess#S|second]] of US Grandmaster [[Gata Kamsky]], helping him to win the [[Chess World Cup 2007]].

In September 2009, Sutovsky won Inventi Chess Tournament in [[Antwerp]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.inventichess.com/inventichess2012/?page_id=16|title=Inventi Chess 2009|access-date=2009-10-01|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120814164132/http://www.inventichess.com/inventichess2012/?page_id=16|archive-date=2012-08-14|language=nl}}</ref> In 2011, he tied for 2nd-3rd with [[Dmitry Andreikin]] in the [[Baku]] Open.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.theweekinchess.com/chessnews/events/baku-open-2011|title=TWIC: Baku Open 2011|last=Crowther|first=Mark|date=2011-08-16|publisher=The Week in Chess|access-date=15 September 2015}}</ref> After becoming the ACP President, Sutovsky started playing less often. In 2015, he won the prestigious [[Biel Chess Festival|Biel Masters Open Tournament]]. In 2016 he won the strong Nona 75 – ACP Open in Tbilisi. In April 2017, Sutovsky won the traditional Karpov Tournament in Poikovsky showing the performance of 2902 – statistically the best result in his entire career.<ref>{{Cite web|title=The chess games of Emil Sutovsky|url=https://www.chessgames.com/player/emil_sutovsky.html|access-date=2021-08-21|website=www.chessgames.com}}</ref>