Mark Safjanowski

Mark Safjanowski, Nuremberg 2009
Association	Soviet Union Yugoslavia (1991 to 1994) Ukraine (1995 to 1999) Germany (since 1999)
Born	November 21, 1950 Kiev
title	International champion (1994)
Current  Elo rating	2220 (February 2020)
Best Elo rating	2437 (April 2001)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Mark Safjanowski ( Russian Марк Дмитриевич Сафьяновский ; born November 21, 1950 in Kiev ) is a German-Ukrainian chess player .

Life

Safjanowski learned the rules of chess when he was about six years old. After completing his military service, he embarked on an officer career and remained in the military until 1990. In 1972 he won the championship of the Soviet armed forces in Vilnius with the team of the Kiev military district . At the IV. Jefim Kogan Memorial in Odessa in 1978 , he shared third place behind Efim Geller and Vyacheslav Ejnhorn and thus fulfilled a master's standard . In the same year he finished second in the tournament on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of Lenin's Komsomol in Moscow . The victory went to Michail Zeitlin . In 1979 Safjanowski was awarded the title of Master of Sports of the USSR .

After the beginning of perestroika , he had the first chance to prove himself internationally. In 1994 FIDE awarded him the title of International Master . In 1999 he switched from the Ukrainian Chess Federation to the German Chess Federation . In 1997 he finished third at the Open Slovan in Bratislava and at the Open Tatry in Poprad . The next year he won the Swabian individual championship in Leipheim . In 2001 and 2008 he was able to re-enter the list of winners, in 2009 in Augsburg he was second. In 1998 Safjanowski won the Bavarian individual championship in Kaufbeuren . At the next edition in 1999 in Furth im Wald , it took third place. In Nuremberg he played several times at the LGA Premium Chess Cup. He played club chess in Germany for TSV Haunstetten , SC Dillingen and SV Osram Augsburg, he also played in the Czech Republic and Slovakia , where he played in the Extraliga between 1992 and 1998 for the first and second team of the ŠK Slovan Bratislava .

literature

• Manfred Rubke: 100 years of chess in Haunstetten from 1899 to 1999 . Augsburg, 1999, p. 103. ( online ; PDF; 29.4 MB).

Web links

• Replayable chess games by Mark Safjanowski on 365Chess.com (English)
• Entry on the website of the IKG Schwaben-Augsburg

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Swabian Individual Championship 2009 in Augsburg.
2. ↑ 9th LGA Premium Chess CUP 2012
3. ↑ Mark Safjanowski's results in the Slovak Extraliga on olimpbase.org (English)