Nikolai Shalnev


Nikolai Shalnev, Pula 2011
Association	Soviet Union Soviet Union (until 1991) Ukraine (1992 to 1998) Russia (1999 to 2004) Germany (since 2004) Ukraine Russia Germany
Born	April 16, 1944
title	International Master (1997) Grand Master (2001)
Current Elo rating	2295 (December 2019)
Best Elo rating	2553 (July 2003 to June 2004)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Nikolai Shalnev ( Russian: Николай Шальнев , born April 16, 1944 ) is a German - Ukrainian chess master . In 2001 he switched from the Ukrainian to the Russian Chess Federation and in 2004 to the German Chess Federation .

Nikolai Shalnev headed the chess column of the Russian-language magazine RUBEZH (German border), which is published monthly in Nuremberg for years . He was a Red Army officer who played in several Soviet Union Army Championships (1977, 1978 and 1989) and he himself referred to his army time several times in his chess section. He served in the Donets Basin , Kiev and Odessa . There are 120 games by him in the Chessbase Megabase 2011 , but hardly any tournament is fully covered. In the Hugebase of Chess Assistant from April 2010 he has 97 games. There is no batch of him from 1998 to 2003 in either of the leading databases.

Shalnev has held the title of Grand Master since 2001 . He fulfilled the third norm for the title of grandmaster at the Spring 2001 tournament in Odessa, where he won 12 games with 9.5 points. He only played club chess for the Schaklub Zirl in the Tyrolean regional league in the 2005/2006 season, where he only played two games. In June 2010 he was ranked fourth worldwide in his year.

Web links

Replayable chess games by Nikolai Shalnev on chessgames.com (English)

Individual evidence

↑ ChessBase Megabase 2011
↑ Клуб четырех коней, Шахматные босяки (продолжение), newspaper RUBEZH, 2007/08 Russian, accessed February 27, 2011
↑ Ума палата, Шахматные босяки (продолжение), RUBEZH newspaper, 2005/04 Russian, accessed on February 27, 2011
↑ ChessBase Megabase 2011
↑ Chess Assistant Hugebase, April 2010
^ Willy Iclicki: FIDE Golden book 1924-2002 . Euroadria, Slovenia, 2002, p. 86
↑ Cильнейшие шахматисты мира, родившиеся в 1953-1944 Russian, accessed February 27, 2011

personal data
SURNAME	Shalnev, Nikolai
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Шальнев, Николай (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German-Ukrainian chess master
DATE OF BIRTH	April 16, 1944

[1] ChessBase Megabase 2011

[2] Клуб четырех коней, Шахматные босяки (продолжение), newspaper RUBEZH, 2007/08 Russian, accessed February 27, 2011

[3] Ума палата, Шахматные босяки (продолжение), RUBEZH newspaper, 2005/04 Russian, accessed on February 27, 2011

[4] ChessBase Megabase 2011

[5] Chess Assistant Hugebase, April 2010

[6] Willy Iclicki: FIDE Golden book 1924-2002 . Euroadria, Slovenia, 2002, p. 86

[7] Cильнейшие шахматисты мира, родившиеся в 1953-1944 Russian, accessed February 27, 2011