Adrian Mihalčišin

Adrian Mihalčišin, Warsaw 2013
Association	Soviet Union (until 1991) Ukraine (1992 to 1995) Slovenia (since 1996)
Born	November 18, 1954 Lviv
title	International Master (1977) Grand Master (1978)
Current  Elo rating	2458 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating	2552 (July 1999 to January 2000)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Adrian Mihalčišin ( Ukrainian Адріян Михальчишин ; born November 18, 1954 in Lviv , English name form Adrian Mikhalchishin ) is a Slovenian chess player of Ukrainian origin.

In 1977 he received the title of International Master and has been a Grand Master since 1978 .

Chess career

Adrian Mihalčišin, Dortmund 1998

He took part in several USSR championships , his best result being fourth place in Lviv in 1984.

He won several tournaments, including the championship tournament at the Dortmund Chess Days in 1998 and the tournament in Ptuj in 2000.

He played for Ukraine at the 1992 Chess Olympiad , and has competed for Slovenia since 2000.

In February 2015 he was in 6th place in the Slovenian ranking.

National team

Adrian Mihalčišin took part in four Chess Olympiads , 1992 for Ukraine, 2000 , 2002 and 2004 for Slovenia. With Slovenia he also took part in the European Team Championships in 1999, 2001, 2003 and 2005.

societies

In the 1980s Mihalčišin first played for Avangard , later for the team of Trud Moscow , with whom he won the European Club Cup in 1984 and reached the final in 1986. He also took part in the European Club Cup in 1998 and 1999 with Agrouniversal Zemun (and again came second in 1999) and in 2002 with Karpaty Galychyna . In the German Federal Chess League he played for SK Zähringen in the 1993/94 season , and in the Austrian Bundesliga in the 2006/07 season for SK Leoben . In Hungary he played for Aquaprofit NTSK from 2007 to 2010 and was Hungarian team champion in 2009 and 2010 , and in the Dutch master class he played for HWP Sas van Gent from 2004 to 2006 .

Chess coach

He is a well-known chess trainer and worked with Anatoly Karpov from 1980 to 1986 . He also looked after Zsuzsa Polgár , Maia Tschiburdanidse , Wassyl Iwantschuk and Arkadij Naiditsch as well as the national teams of the Netherlands, Poland and Slovenia as well as the Turkish women's national team. He is the Chairman ( Chairman ) of the Trainers' Committee of FIDE and since 2004 Senior Trainer .

Private

His son Jurij Mychaltschyshyn (* 1982) was a member of the right-wing extremist party “Svoboda” in the Ukrainian parliament from 2012 to 2014 .

Works

Together with Alexander Beliavsky he wrote several chess books :

• Winning endgame technique (1995)
• Fianchetto Grünfeld (1998)
• The two knights defense (1999)
• Winning endgame strategy (2000)
• Modern endgame practice (2002)
• Secrets of chess intuition (2002)

He published the following instructional videos at ChessBase :

• The secret weapons of the champions (2007)
• Decision making in chess (2007)
• Arkhangelsk (2009)
• Power of exchange (2009)
• Power of planning (2009)
• Winning structures (2009)
• Strategy university 1 - 3 (2011)

Web links

Commons : Adrian Mihalčišin  - collection of images

• Literature by and about Adrian Mihalčišin in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sparkassen - Chess - Meeting '98, master tournament on TeleSchach
2. ^ Olimpbase.org
3. ↑ Adrian Mihalčišin's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
4. ↑ Adrian Mihalčišin's results at the European Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
5. ↑ Adrian Mihalčišin's results at European Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)
6. ^ FIDE Directory