Andrei Volokitin ( uk, Андрій Волокітін, ''Andriy Volokitin''; born 18 June 1986 in
Lviv) is a
Ukrainian chess grandmaster. He is a two-time Ukrainian champion and has competed in four
Chess Olympiads, winning team gold in 2004 along with team bronze in 2012.
Chess career
He won two medals at the
World Youth Chess Championship, taking silver in 1998 at
Oropesa del Mar at under-12 level and bronze at the same venue a year later in the under-14 category. In 1999, he was a member of the Ukrainian national youth team which won the U-16
Chess Olympiad in
Artek, Ukraine.
He achieved the grandmaster title in 2001, when he was 15 years old. In 2004, he entered the top 100 of the
FIDE
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world ranking list, won the 73rd
Ukrainian Chess Championship and was a member of the gold medal–winning national team at the
36th Chess Olympiad
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. In 2005 he won the
Lausanne Young Masters tournament with a
rating performance of 2984.
In January 2012, Volokitin won the Donostia Chess Festival's knockout tournament in
San Sebastián
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,
Basque Country
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, Spain, by defeating
Viktor Láznička in the final. In this event each player faced the opponent on two boards simultaneously, playing White on one and Black on the other. This peculiar format, which was held for the first time in this tournament, was later named "Basque chess".
In 2015, he won the Ukrainian championship, held in Lviv, edging out on tiebreak
Martyn Kravtsiv and
Zahar Efimenko, after all three players scored 7 points from 11 games.
In 2016, Volokitin won as clear first the 20th
Vidmar Memorial, played as international invitation tournament in
Bled, Slovenia.
Books
*Andrei Volokitin,
Vladimir Grabinsky, ''Perfect Your Chess'' (
Gambit, 2007)
References
External links
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Andrei Volokitinprofile at Grandcoach.com
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1986 births
Living people
Chess grandmasters
Chess Olympiad competitors
Ukrainian chess players
Ukrainian chess writers
Sportspeople from Lviv
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