Mikhail Golubev (born 30 May 1970,
Odesa
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) is a
Ukrainian chess
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Grandmaster (1996), journalist and author.
Chess career
Golubev began playing chess at the age of six and played his first tournament a year later in 1977. He played several times in
Ukrainian Chess Championship, and shared first place (with
Valery Neverov) at
Yalta
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1996 (declared winner on better tie-breaks). In 2008, he won the
Odesa Region
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The length of coast ...
Open Championship.
Other successful performances include first place at
Karviná
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1992–93, first at
Bucharest
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2002, and first at
Béthune
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2002. In recent years, Golubev has cut down on his tournament appearances to focus on chess writing and coaching.
Chess strength
According to the website
Chessmetrics
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, at his peak in January 1995, Golubev's play was equivalent to a rating of 2598 and he was ranked number 151 in the world.
According to the database
Mega Database 2009, his best performances were Bethune 2002 (6.5/7 with a 2768
performance rating
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), Karvina 1992–93 (8/9 with a 2691 performance rating), Yalta 1996 (8.5/11 with a 2663 performance rating) and Berlin 1993 (7/9 with a 2662 performance rating). Another of his best performances was at the Biel Open in 1995, where he scored 4/6 against an average of 2605-rated opposition, for a performance of 2643.
Since the July 2019
FIDE
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list (when he retired), he has had an
Elo rating
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The Elo system wa ...
of 2461, which would make him Ukraine's number 77 as of January 2025 were he still active.
Notable games
Vlatko Bogdanovski vs Mikhail Golubev, Skopje 1991, King's Indian Defense: Orthodox Variation (A46), 0-1Mikhail Golubev vs Renzo Mantovani, Biel Open 1992, Sicilian Defense: Fischer-Sozin Attack (B87), 1-0Mikhail Golubev vs Emil Sutovsky, Groningen GM open 1993, Sicilian Defense: Exchange Variation (B45), 1-0Mikhail Golubev vs Vladimir Podinic, Lasker Autumn GM 2001, Sicilian Defense: Paulsen (B48), 1-0
Photos
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Books
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Journalism
Golubev is as much a chess journalist as an author. In addition to being chess observer for the Ukrainian newspaper Komanda
''Komanda'' was a sport newspaper published daily in Kyiv, Ukraine.
It was founded in 1995, and as of September 2001, it was available online. It offered sport analysis, original interviews, and opinions. It was published in Russian.
Its regi ...
and making contributions to ChessBase.com, Chesspro and Chess-News.ru, he has contributed to over 1000 editions of the online daily chess newspaper Chess Today.
References
External links
Mikhail Golubev's Chess Page
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Mikhail Golubev at 365Chess.comChessmetrics Player Profile: Mihail Golubev
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LatestChess - Interview with GM Mikhail Golubev
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1970 births
Living people
Chess players from Odesa
Chess Grandmasters
Ukrainian chess players
Ukrainian chess writers