Igor Khenkin

Igor Khenkin, 2008
Association	Soviet Union (until 1991) Russia (1992 to 1993 and 1998) Israel (1993 to 1997) Germany (since 1999)
Born	March 21, 1968 Vladimir
title	International Master (1990) Grand Master (1992)
Current  Elo rating	2558 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating	2670 (May 2012)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Igor Khenkin ( Russian Игорь Хенкин , Igor Chenkin ; born March 21, 1968 in Vladimir , RSFSR ) is a Russian-German chess player .

Career

At the age of 11 Igor Khenkin won the men's championship of the Vladimir district and at the age of 13 he was already the junior national champion of the under 16s. His coaches included Mark Dworezki and Alexander Nikitin , who also looked after and seconded ex-world champion Garry Kasparov .

In 1990 he was awarded the title of International Master by FIDE , and in 1992 he was awarded the title of Grand Master . In the late 1990s, Khenkin played for the Israeli Chess Federation for a short time, but moved back to the Russian Chess Federation in 1998 because of disagreements with Israeli officials.

Khenkin came to Germany in 1996; his parents had previously emigrated from Russia and lived in Weilburg (Hesse).

Khenkin now has German citizenship.

successes

Igor Khenkin, 2011 in Bonn

Khenkin won the 1991 Paris Open Championship and shared 1st place at the Cansys tournament in Budapest. In 1992 he won the tournament in Tel Aviv together with Ilia Smirin . He won the Geneva Chess Open a total of five times (1994, 1996, 1998, 2002, 2003). He took part in the FIDE knockout world championship 2001/2002 in Moscow, but failed in the second round in the "tiebreak" to Rustam Kasimjanov , the 2004 FIDE world champion.

Khenkin has taken part in German championships five times . In 2005 he was fifth, in 2006 fourth and in 2010 he reached second place. At the German Championship 2011 in Bonn, he won the title with 6.5 points from 9 games after scoring before Jan Gustafsson with the same number of points . In 2012 in Osterburg / Altmark he was runner-up.

Team chess

National team

Khenkin took part in the 2008 and 2012 Chess Olympiads with the German national team. 2009 and 2013, he was in the team's European Championships the German selection, and he took in 2013 at the World Team Championship in part.

Club chess

After moving to Germany, Khenkin played first in the 1997/98 season for Schachfreunde Schöneck , then from 1999 to 2009 for the German chess division TV Tegernsee , continuously on the first or second board. After Tegernsee withdrew from the league, Khenkin played for Wiesbadener SV - initially in the Hessen League . After a march, the team reached the 1st Bundesliga chess league in the 2012/13 season , but withdrew to the 2nd Bundesliga chess league after the season . From the 2014/15 season to the 2016/17 season he played for SG Porz , and since the 2018/19 season he has been playing for SG Turm Kiel . In the Swiss National League A , Khenkin played in the 2010 season at Club d'Echecs de Genève . In the Hungarian NB I. Szabó László csoport , Khenkin played from 2006 to 2011 for Csuti Antal SK Zalaegerszeg , with whom he became Hungarian team champion in 2008 , and for Pénzügyőr Sport Egyesület in the 2018/19 season . In the French Top 16 (until 2003 Nationale I ) he played from 2001 to 2004 for Echiquier Nanceien and from 2007 to 2009 for La Tour Sarrazine Antibes . The British Four Nations Chess League won Khenkin in 2000 with Slough , in which he was active from 1999 to 2001, the Polish team championship in 1997 and 1998 with KSz Stilon Gorzów Wielkopolski . In Belgium, Khenkin played for KSK 47 Eynatten until 2011 , with whom he was Belgian team champion in 2004 , 2005 , 2006 , 2010 and 2011 , in the 2012/13 season for Meister Schachfreunde Wirtzfeld and since 2013 again for KSK 47 Eynatten which he won the title in 2014 and 2017 . Khenkin won the Luxembourg national division in 2009 and 2011 with De Sprénger Echternach . In the Dutch Meesterklasse he played from 2006 to 2010 for the Schaakclub Groningen , which he in 2007 became champion, in the season 2015/16 Khenkin played for the Master En Passant Bunschoten . In the Czech extra league he plays for the second team of ŠK JOLY Lysá nad Labem in the 2015/16 season .

Web links

Commons : Igor Khenkin  - collection of images

• Khenkins homepage
• Replayable chess games by Igor Khenkin on chessgames.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Chess Informator 50
2. ↑ MEN'S CHESS OLYMPIADS - Khenkin, Igor (Germany) on Olimpbase (English)
3. ↑ Igor Khenkins results at European Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
4. ↑ Igor Khenkins results at team world championships on olimpbase.org (English)
5. ↑ Igor Khenkins results at Polish team championships on olimpbase.org (English)