Michele Godena

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Godena 2006.JPG
Michele Godena at the 2006 Chess Olympiad
Association ItalyItaly Italy
Born June 30, 1967
Valdobbiadene , Italy
title International Master (1988)
Grand Master (1996)
Current  Elo rating 2448 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating 2561 (March 2010)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Michele Godena (born June 30, 1967 in Valdobbiadene , Treviso Province ) is an Italian chess player .

Life

Michele Godena learned to play chess from his father at the age of five. The professional chess player, who lives in Treviso , became an international master in 1988 and has held the title of grandmaster since 1996 .

chess

Individual titles and individual tournaments

He won the Italian individual championship five times (1992/93, 1994, 1995, 2005 and 2006), three times he was second (1990, 1998 and 2009). At the 2006 championship in Cremona he was tied with the then 14-year-old Fabiano Caruana with 8 points from 11 games, but won in a rapid and blitz decision. At the EU championship in Arvier in June 2007 , he finished second behind the Serb Nikola Sedlak , but is listed as EU champion (as the successor to Nigel Short ) because Serbia is not a member of the EU .

Godena won the Pentium 4 Intel tournament in Milan in 2002 and 2003. In 2003 he also won the ITT tournament in Taormina . In 2004 he won the FE tournament in Savigliano and was a shared winner of the Open in Pula . In 2005 he won the 8th City Open from Pescara . In April 2007 he was the shared winner of the 1st Casino Open in Lugano . He won the 2nd International Chess Open in Lugano in March 2008, tied ahead of Namiq Quliyev . In August 2008 he won the 11th Novotel Open in Genoa .

National team and club teams

At the Mitropa Cup in 1982 he played for the first time in the Italian national team. Between 1982 and 2015 he took part in 13 Mitropa Cups, he won with the team in 2010 and achieved the best result on the third board in 1983 and 2011. From 1988 to 2012 Godena took part in all 13 chess Olympiads for Italy , and from 1992 to 2015 he also played in all eleven team European championships .

For club teams he played in the French (for the Association Cannes-Echecs ), Swiss (formerly for Geneva , with whom he took part in the European Club Cup 1997, up to the 2003 season for the Lucerne chess club , then for Mendrisio , with whom he participated in 2008 European Club Cup, 2016 for SK Réti Zurich and then again for Mendrisio ) and Italian (first for Vimar Scacchi Marostica , with whom he took part in the European Club Cup in 1994, then on the top board of the ASA Penne , with whom he took part in the European Club Cup 2005, then again on the second board and top board of Vimar Scacchi Marostica and most recently on the sixth board of Risarcimento Padua , with which he took part in the European Club Cup in 2012, 2013 and 2015) 1st league. In 2007 he became Swiss team champion with Mendrisio and Italian team champion in 2012 with Padua . Since 2012 he has also played in the Israeli top division.

Others

In his game, Godena often runs out of time .

He has headed the Italian Elo ranking for a long time.

Publications

Web links

Commons : Michele Godena  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michele Godena's results at Mitropacups on olimpbase.org (English)
  2. ↑ Michele Godena's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  3. ↑ Michele Godena's results at the European Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  4. ↑ a b c d e Michele Godenas results at European Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)
  5. ^ Time trouble . Article by Dominic Lawson Issue May 2012 magazine Standpoint (English)
personal data
SURNAME Godena, Michele
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian chess player
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Valdobbiadene