Viktor Moskalenko

Viktor Moskalenko ( Ukrainian Виктор Москаленко ; born April 12, 1960 in Odessa ) is a Ukrainian chess player and author. In 1988 he became international champion and has been a grandmaster since 1992 . He has been playing for the Spanish Chess Federation since October 2012.

Life

He is married to the chess player Tatjana Jastrebowa and has one daughter. Between 1992 and 1994, seconded he Vassily Ivanchuk . In 2000 the family moved to Barcelona . Besides playing chess, Moskalenko writes for the chess magazine New In Chess and ChessBase Magazine .

successes

In 1987 he won the Ukrainian individual championship in Mykolaiv . In 1988 he was in Lviv shared second with Vasyl Ivanchuk and Volodymyr Malanyuk . In the same year he won the Hungarian Open Championship ahead of Zsófia and Judit Polgár . In 1992 he won the Paris Open with 10 points from 11 games and a category 7 tournament on Fuerteventura . In 2005 he shared first place at the Magistral Casino Masters in Barcelona with Wassyl Ivanchuk. In 2005 and 2007 he was Catalan individual champion. In the course of his chess career, Moskalenko won more than 100 international tournaments with victories over Alexander Chalifman in 1985 in 22 moves, Evgeni Sweschnikow in 1987, Michał Krasenkow in 1989, Anatoli Waisser in 1992, Dawid Bronstein in Wijk aan Zee in 1992 and Alexander Morosewitsch in 1994.

His first club was the Odesskiy Centralniy Shaxmatniy Club . He also played in French, Catalan and Spanish (including with CE Escola d'Escacs de Barcelona in 2013 and 2017 in the División de Honor) leagues. In Catalonia he plays for the Club d'Escacs Terrassa .

His Elo number is 2478 (as of July 2020), his highest Elo number of 2591 he reached in July 2011.

Publications

• The Fabulous Budapest Gambit . Interchess BV, Alkmaar 2007, ISBN 978-90-5691-224-6 .
• The Flexible French . New in Chess, Alkmaar 2008, ISBN 978-90-5691-245-1 .
• Revolutionize your chess . New in Chess, Alkmaar 2009, ISBN 978-90-5691-295-6 .
• The Wonderful Winawer . New in Chess, Alkmaar 2010, ISBN 978-90-5691-327-4 .
• The Perfect Pirc-Modern . New in Chess, Alkmaar 2013, ISBN 978-90-5691-402-8 .
• The Diamond Dutch . New in Chess, Alkmaar 2014, ISBN 978-90-5691-441-7 .
• The Even More Flexible French . New in Chess, Alkmaar 2015, ISBN 978-90-5691-574-2 .
• Training with Moska . New in Chess, Alkmaar 2017, ISBN 978-90-5691-676-3 .
• An Attacking Repertoire for White with 1.d4 . New in Chess, Alkmaar 2019, ISBN 978-90-5691-830-9 .

Web links

• Viktor Moskalenko at the World Chess Federation FIDE (English)
• Playable chess games by Wiktor Moskalenko on chessgames.com (English)
• Interview from December 15, 2007 (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wiktor Moskalenko gives in his books such as The Diamond Dutch , page 271, and The Even More Flexible French , page 363, April 12th as his date of birth. On his FIDE cards, December 4th was indicated with a number rotator.