Vladimir Pavlovich Malaniuk (; 21 July 1957 –2 July 2017) was a
Ukrainian
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chess
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grandmaster and three-time Ukrainian champion. He competed in the
FIDE World Chess Championship 1998
The FIDE World Chess Championship 1998 was contested in a match between the FIDE World Champion Anatoly Karpov and the challenger Viswanathan Anand. The match took place between 2 January and 9 January 1998 in Lausanne, Switzerland. The challenge ...
. In team events, Malaniuk played for Ukraine in three
Chess Olympiad
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s (1994, 1996, 1998), two
World Team Chess Championship
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s (1993, 1997) and 1997
European Team Chess Championship
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. He won team silver and bronze medals in 1996 and 1998 Chess Olympiads respectively, team silver and an individual gold medals in the 1993 World Team Championship.
Career
Malaniuk was a regular participant of the
Soviet Chess Championship
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between 1983 and 1991, his best finish occurring in 1986, when he shared second place, behind
Vitaly Tseshkovsky
Vitaly Valeryevich Tseshkovsky (russian: Виталий Валерьевич Цешковский; 25 September 1944, Omsk – 24 December 2011, Krasnodar) was a Russian chess Grandmaster and a former champion of the USSR.
Tseshkovsky (Cieszkow ...
. In Ukraine, he won the
national championship
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on three occasions, in 1980, 1981 and 1986.
In 2005, he finished second at the
Paul Keres Memorial rapid event in
Tallinn
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, behind
Alexey Shirov
Alexei Shirov (, lv, Aleksejs Širovs; born 4 July 1972) is a Latvian and Spanish chess player. Shirov was ranked number two in the world in 1994.
He won a match against Vladimir Kramnik in 1998 to qualify to play as challenger for the classi ...
and ahead of
Anatoly Karpov
Anatoly Yevgenyevich Karpov ( rus, links=no, Анато́лий Евге́ньевич Ка́рпов, p=ɐnɐˈtolʲɪj jɪvˈɡʲenʲjɪvʲɪtɕ ˈkarpəf; born May 23, 1951) is a Russian and former Soviet chess grandmaster, former World Che ...
and
Boris Gelfand
Boris Gelfand ( he, בוריס אברמוביץ' גלפנד; be, Барыс Абрамавіч Гельфанд, Barys Abramavich Hel'fand; russian: Борис Абрамович Гельфанд, Boris Abramovich Gel'fand; born 24 June 1968) ...
. The same year, he took the silver medal at the 5th Amplico AIG Life International Chess Tournament - European
Rapid Championship, behind
Zoltan Gyimesi. In 2006, Malaniuk finished clear winner at the
Ajaccio Open Rapid event, ahead of a large group of strong grandmasters, including
Rustam Kasimdzhanov
Rustam Kasimdzhanov; russian: Рустам Касымджанов (born 5 December 1979) is an Uzbek chess grandmaster and former FIDE World Champion (2004-05). He was Asian champion in 1998.
In addition to his tournament play, Kasimdzhan ...
,
Vadim Milov
Vadim Milov (born 1 August 1972) is a Swiss chess player who received the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM) in 1993.
Early life
Born in Ufa, following the collapse of the USSR, he moved to Israel in 1992, before finally settling in Switzerlan ...
,
Evgeny Bareev
Evgeny Ilgizovich Bareev (russian: Евгений Ильгизович Бареев; born 21 November 1966) is a Russian-Canadian chess player and trainer. Awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 1989, he was ranked fourth in the FIDE world r ...
,
Alexander Motylev,
Victor Bologan
Victor (Viorel) Bologan (born 14 December 1971) is a Moldovan chess player and author. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1991.
Career
Bologan won the first two editions of the Poikovsky Karpov International Tournament, in 200 ...
,
Zoltán Almási
Zoltán Almási (born August 29, 1976) is a Hungarian chess player. Awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 1993, he is a nine-time Hungarian champion, winning in 1995, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2008, 2009, and 2019.
Almási has compete ...
,
Ilya Smirin
Ilya (or Ilia) Smirin ( he, איליה יוליביץ' סמירין; russian: Илья Юльевич Смирин, Ilya Yulievich Smirin; born January 21, 1968) is a Byelorussian SSR-born and an Israeli chess player. He was awarded the title of ...
,
Ivan Sokolov,
Arkadij Naiditsch
Arkadij Naiditsch ( az, Arkadi Naydiç; born 25 October 1985) is an Azerbaijani (since 2015) chess grandmaster who previously represented Latvia (until 2005) and Germany (2005–2015).
Career
In 1995 he won the European Under-10 champ ...
,
Krishnan Sasikiran
Krishnan Sasikiran (Tamil: கிருஷ்ணன் சசிகிரண்; born 7 January 1981) is an Indian chess grandmaster.
He was one of Viswanathan Anand's seconds in the World Chess Championship 2013.
Chess career
Born in Madra ...
and
Loek van Wely
Loek van Wely (born 7 October 1972) is a Dutch chess player and politician. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 1993, and was rated among the world's top ten in 2001 with a rating of 2714. In March 2019, he was elected to the Dutch ...
.
Malaniuk had also been a strong player at standard time limits, winning many national and international tournaments, including
Minsk
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1985,
Kostroma
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1985 (USSR Championship semi-final),
Lvov
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1986 and
Frunze 1987 on the road to securing his Grandmaster title (awarded in 1987). There were further victories recorded at
Forlì
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The city is situated along the Via ...
in 1990 and 1992,
Porto San Giorgio
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History
Already famous at the tim ...
1994, Minsk 1997
Krasnodar
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2001,
Arkhangelsk
Arkhangelsk (, ; rus, Арха́нгельск, p=ɐrˈxanɡʲɪlʲsk), also known in English as Archangel and Archangelsk, is a city and the administrative center of Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia. It lies on both banks of the Northern Dvina near ...
2002, Krasnodar 2002,
Koszalin
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2002,
Kolobrzeg 2003,
Kraków
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2003 and
Mielno
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2006. Notable runner-up performances include
Baku 1983, Tallinn 1987, Lvov 1988,
Świdnica
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2001 and Kraków 2004.
Chess opening theory
Malaniuk has been credited with an important contribution to
chess opening theory. Along with
Sergey Dolmatov
Sergey Viktorovich Dolmatov (born February 20, 1959) is a Russian Grandmaster of chess and former World Junior Chess Champion.
Born in Kiselevsk in the former Soviet Union, Dolmatov's solid yet enterprising style of play was soon to launch hi ...
,
Mikhail Gurevich and
Evgeny Bareev
Evgeny Ilgizovich Bareev (russian: Евгений Ильгизович Бареев; born 21 November 1966) is a Russian-Canadian chess player and trainer. Awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 1989, he was ranked fourth in the FIDE world r ...
, his faithful adherence to the Leningrad
Dutch Defence (described as a hybrid of the Dutch and the
King's Indian
The King's Indian Defence is a common chess opening. It is defined by the following moves:
:1. d4 Nf6
:2. c4 g6
Black intends to follow up with 3...Bg7 and 4...d6 (the Grünfeld Defence arises when Black plays 3...d5 instead, and is cons ...
) helped shape a dynamic new approach to the system in the 1980s and this led to a dramatic resurgence of interest. That it affords black the opportunity to unbalance the position and fight for the full point is probably its main attraction. The system has since become a popular choice for players at all levels, following the publication of a number of books and theoretical guides. His own book on the opening (co-authored with Petr Marusenko) was published by Chess Stars in 2014.
In a more minor capacity, he and
Vladimir Akopian are noted for their attempts at reviving the
Spielmann
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Variation (4.Qb3) of the
Nimzo-Indian Defence
The Nimzo-Indian Defence is a chess opening characterised by the moves:
:1. d4 Nf6
:2. c4 e6
:3. Nc3 Bb4
Other move orders, such as 1.c4 e6 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.d4 Bb4, are also feasible. In the ''Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings'', the Nimzo-Indian ...
, but have not met with any real success.
Personal life
In 2001, Russian player and chess journalist Evgeny Atarov reported that Malaniuk was severely ill and was undergoing a number of surgical operations, the funding of which had become a cause for concern.
The Week in Chess: FIDE World Chess Championships
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Sample game
Polugaevsky-Malaniuk, USSR Ch. 1983, Leningrad Dutch, 0-1
Black ventures forward on the kingside while carefully neutralising white's central threat.
References
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1957 births
2017 deaths
Ukrainian chess players
Russian chess players
Jewish chess players
Soviet chess players
Chess grandmasters
Chess Olympiad competitors
Ukrainian Jews
Russian Jews
Sportspeople from Arkhangelsk