Pavel Elyanov

Pavel Elyanov, 2008
Association	Ukraine
Born	May 10, 1983 Kharkiv
title	International champion (1999) Grandmaster (2000)
Current  Elo rating	2672 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating	2765 (March 2016)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Pavel Eljanov ( Ukrainian Павло Ельянов * 10. May 1983 in Kharkiv ) is a Ukrainian chess - Grand Master .

Life

Pavel Eljanow comes from the Kharkiv chess school, his father Volodymyr had a chess book printer and was a chess trainer himself .

Eljanow was the undivided winner at the strong open in Amsterdam 2005. He also won the top tournament Montreal Empresa International 2006. Another success was the victory at Corus B in Wijk aan Zee in 2007. In 2009 he won the tournament in Bosna Sarajevo with 1.5 points Lead over Borki Predojević and Wang Hao . Eljanow called this the greatest success of his career so far. In 2010 he won the Grand Prix tournament in Astrakhan and the Politiken Cup in Copenhagen . In October 2010 he won the Chess Olympiad in Khanty-Mansiysk with the Ukraine, for which he played on board 3 . In 2013 he won the 14th Karpov tournament in Poikowski . In April 2014 he won the B-tournament of the Shamkir Chess, which was held as a memorial tournament for the Azerbaijani grandmaster Vüqar Həşimov , who died in January . Eljanow is also active as a second to Boris Gelfand .

Since 2005, Eljanow has participated in the World Chess Cup six times . In 2015 he achieved his best result when he surprisingly reached the semi-finals among 128 participants, in which he was narrowly defeated by the eventual winner Sergei Karjakin . Among other things, he had beaten Hikaru Nakamura in the quarterfinals . As a result of this success, he gained 36 Elo points and advanced from 32nd to 13th in the world rankings.

He has been married to WIM Olena Dworetska since April 2009 .

Team chess

National team

Eljanow took part with the Ukrainian team in all eight chess Olympiads since 2004. The team won the competition in 2004 and 2010 and came third in 2012 and second in 2016 , Eljanow also achieved the second best individual result in 2010 and the third best individual result on the third board in 2014 . In addition, Eljanov took part in the World Team Championships in 2005, 2011 and 2015 and the European Team Championships in 2003, 2005, 2009, 2011 , 2015 and 2017. At the world championships he reached third place with the team in 2011 and second place in 2015, at the European championships he came third with the team in 2009 and 2017, in the individual evaluation he achieved the best result on the top board in 2009 and the second best result on the 2015 second board.

societies

In the Ukrainian team championship, Eljanow has played for Law Academy Kharkiv since 1999 . With this he became Ukrainian team champion in 2000, 2004, 2005 and 2013 and took part twice in the European Club Cup . Eljanow played in the German Federal Chess League from 2005 to 2008 for SV Wattenscheid , from 2008 to 2012 for SV Werder Bremen and from the 2014/15 season to the 2018/19 season for the USV TU Dresden . In Austria he played for SK Advisory Invest Baden in the 2009/10 season . In France, Eljanow played in the 2005/06 season for CEMC Monaco , in the 2006/07 season for the Paris Chess Club , in the 2007/08 season for the champions Clichy-Echecs-92 , from 2009 to 2011 for Évry Grand Roque and since 2018 for Nice Alekhine . Eljanow won the Bosnian Premier League in 2006 and 2009 with ŠK Bosna Sarajevo , in the Chinese team championship he played in 2011 and 2012 for the team from Shanghai Jianqiao University , with which he was team champion in 2012, and in 2018 for Hangzhou Bank . In the Russian team championship Eljanow played from 2005 to 2013 for Ekonomist-1 Saratow , with whom he also took part in the European Club Cup three times; he won this with the team in 2009 and 2010 and achieved the third best result on the third board in 2011. In Israel he played for the team from Ashdod , with which he participated five times in the European Club Cup, in the Spanish team championship Eljanow played in 2005 and 2006 for CA Intel-Tiendas UPI Mancha Real , in 2008 for CA Mérida Patrimonio-Ajoblanco at the European Club Cup Eljanow also participated in 2016 and 2017 with Alkaloid Skopje , winning in 2016 with the team and at the same time achieving the third-best individual result on the third board; In 2017, he finished second with the team.

Web links

Commons : Pawel Eljanow  - Collection of images

• Replayable chess games by Pawel Eljanow on chessgames.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Biography of Pavel Eljanov (English) ( Memento from June 20, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ In Memoriam: Vladimir Eljanov . FIDE Trainers' Commission. October 19, 2013. Retrieved December 15, 2013.
3. ↑ Interview at Chessvibes.com
4. ↑ Interview with Boris Gelfand
5. ^ FIDE rating by Pavel Eljanov - see jump from October to November 2015
6. ↑ Report at Chessbase.de
7. ↑ Pawel Eljanov's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
8. ↑ Pawel Eljanov's results at team world championships on olimpbase.org (English)
9. ↑ Pawel Eljanov's results at European Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
10. ↑ Pawel Eljanov's results at Ukrainian team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
11. ↑ ^{a b c d} Pawel Eljanow's results at European Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)
12. ↑ Pawel Eljanov's results in the Premier League on olimpbase.org (English)
13. ↑ Pawel Eljanov's results at Russian team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
14. ↑ Pawel Eljanov's results at Spanish team championships on olimpbase.org (English)