Boris Khanukov

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Khanukov, Boris 2013 Oberhof.jpg
Boris Khanukov, Oberhof 2013
Association GermanyGermany Germany
Born January 28, 1939
Kharkiv , Soviet Union
title International champion (2009)
Current  Elo rating 2288 (September 2020)
Best Elo rating 2424 (January 2008, January 2009)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Boris Khanukov ( Russian Борис Григорьевич Хануков / Boris Grigorjewitsch Chanukov; born January 28, 1939 in Charkow ) is a chess player from the Soviet Union who is eligible to play for the German Chess Federation .

Life

Khanukov graduated from the Kharkov Polytechnic Institute and worked at the same institute as a research assistant. In the early 1980s he received his doctorate as a candidate in technical sciences. He was trained in chess in the local pioneer palace under the direction of Alexander Mazkewitsch. In 1963 he won the Kharkov City Championship. In 1969 he was first with a half point lead on Volodymyr Zavon in the championship of the Kharkov Oblast . From that year he held the title of Master of Sports of the USSR . In the Ukrainian championship in 1969 in Ivano-Frankovsk , he finished penultimate. In the 1990s he worked as a chess teacher at a youth school. One of his protégés is IM Artiom Tsepotan .

In 1999 Khanukov emigrated to Germany and has played for BSW Wuppertal ever since. He achieved considerable success in senior chess. At the European Senior Championship in Saint Vincent in 2002 , he shared second place with Jānis Klovāns , Jacob Murey and Mark Taimanow . Also in 2002 he was the overall winner of the Senior Germany Cup. He got good placements at the German senior individual and team championships. In March 2009, FIDE awarded him the title of International Master. He achieved the norms for this in the senior tournaments in 2006 in Davos (EM), 2007 in Hockenheim (EM) and 2008 in Bad Zwischenahn ( WM ) with victories against players like Klovāns, Vlastimil Jansa and Algimantas Butnorius .

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Web links

Commons : Boris Khanukov  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Chess: Wuppertal successful at Senior World Championships. In: WZ-Newsline of November 13, 2008 (accessed June 18, 2013)