Andrei Volokitin ( uk, Андрій Волокітін, ''Andriy Volokitin''; born 18 June 1986 in

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) is a Ukrainian

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grandmaster. He is a two-time Ukrainian champion and has competed in four

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s, winning team gold in 2004 along with team bronze in 2012.

Chess career

He won two medals at the

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, taking silver in 1998 at

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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

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 world ranking list, won the 73rd

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and was a member of the gold medal–winning national team at the 36th Chess Olympiad. In 2005 he won the

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Young Masters tournament with a rating performance of 2984. In January 2012, Volokitin won the Donostia Chess Festival's knockout tournament in San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain, by defeating

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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

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and

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, after all three players scored 7 points from 11 games. In 2016, Volokitin won as clear first the 20th

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, played as international invitation tournament in

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, Slovenia.

Books

*Andrei Volokitin,

Vladimir Grabinsky Vladimir Grabinsky (born 15 January 1974, in Lviv) is a Ukrainian chess International Master and coach of the Ukrainian youth team. Enrolled in the Lviv Institute of Physical Culture in 1990 and graduated in 1994. Twelve of his students became G ...

, ''Perfect Your Chess'' (

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, 2007)

References

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