Vladimir Burmakin (born 6 June 1967) is a Russian

chess Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to dist ...

player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1994.

Chess career

In 1994 he tied for 3rd-5th places in the Russian championship at

Elista Elista (russian: Элиста́, (common during the Soviet era) or (most common pronunciation used after 1992 and in Kalmykia itself);"Большой энциклопедический словарь", под ред. А. М. Прохорова. ...

, with

Sergei Rublevsky Sergei Rublevsky (born 15 October 1974) is a Russian chess grandmaster (1994). He has won four team gold medals and one individual bronze medal at Chess Olympiads. He won the prestigious Aeroflot Open in 2004, and became the 58th Russian chess ch ...

and

Vasily Yemelin Vasily Yemelin (born 1 February 1976) is a Russian chess player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 1994. Yemelin won the championship of Saint Petersburg three times, in 1993, 2002 and 2011. He participated in two Chess Olympiads, ...

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Peter Svidler Pyotr Veniaminovich Svidler (russian: Пётр Вениами́нович Сви́длер; born 17 June 1976), commonly known as Peter Svidler, is a Russian chess grandmaster and an eight-time Russian Chess Champion who now frequently comment ...

won, Mikhail Ulibin was second). Burmakin won or shared first place in several tournaments: * 1993 –

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– Balatonberény –

Werfen Werfen () is a market town in the district of St. Johann im Pongau, in the Austrian state of Salzburg. It is mainly known for medieval Hohenwerfen Castle and the Eisriesenwelt ice cave, the largest in the world. Geography Werfen is located in the ...

(repeated in 1996) * 1994 –

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– Graz (repeated in 1997 and 2001) * 1995 –

Chigorin Memorial The Chigorin Memorial is a chess tournament played in honour of Mikhail Chigorin (1850–1908), founder of the Soviet Chess School and one of the leading players of his day. The first and most important edition was the one played in 1909 in St. Pe ...

in Saint Petersburg * 1997 –

Cappelle-la-Grande open The Cappelle-la-Grande Open is a chess tournament held every year in Cappelle-la-Grande, France, since 1985. It is usually played in the second half of February with an accelerated Swiss-system format in nine rounds. It is organized by the chess c ...

(repeated in 2003) * 1999 – Pula * 2000 –

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* 2002 –

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– Pardubice – Zurich * 2003 –

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(repeated in 2006) * 2004 –

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(repeated in 2005, 2006, and 2007) –

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(repeated in 2006 and 2008) –

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* 2005 – Schwarzach –

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, "Daniel Noteboom Memorial" * 2006 –

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(repeated in 2007) –

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* 2007 – Bratto (repeated in 2008) –

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* 2008 – Benidorm – "BDO Premier" in Haarlem Burmakin played for Russia in the European Senior Team Chess Championship 2019 in the 50+ division. His team won the gold medal. Burmakin is an expert of the Caro-Kann defence, playing it almost invariably in his games against 1. e4; against 1. d4 he usually adopts the Chebanenko Variation of the

Slav defence The Slav Defense is a chess opening that begins with the moves: :1. d4 d5 :2. c4 c6 The Slav is one of the primary defenses to the Queen's Gambit. Although it was analyzed as early as 1590, it was not until the 1920s that it started to be ...

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