Sergei Viktorovich Volkov

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Volkov, Sergey 2017 Karlsruhe a.jpeg
Sergei Wolkow, Karlsruhe 2017
Association RussiaRussia Russia
Born February 7, 1974
Saransk
title International Master (1997)
Grand Master (1998)
Current  Elo rating 2570 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating 2659 (July 2007)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Sergei Wiktorowitsch Wolkow ( Russian Сергей Викторович Волков , spelling at the World Chess Federation FIDE : Sergey Volkov ; born February 7, 1974 in Saransk , Mordovia) is a Russian chess player . Since 1998 he has held the title of chess grandmaster .

Life

He received chess training in the Saransk Pioneer Palace and at the All-Russia Chess Grandmasters school (ACGS).

successes

In June 2000 he was the Russian individual champion in Samara . At the individual European championship in 2002 in Batumi he finished third, in 2008 in Plovdiv he was third again. He won the Rilton Cup in Stockholm in 2004/05 (with 7 points from 9 games) and 2010/11 (with 8 out of 9). Volkov qualified twice for the FIDE World Cup . In his first participation in 2007 he defeated Grzegorz Gajewski in the first round , but failed in the second round to Vladimir Malachov , in 2009 he lost to Farruch Amonatov in the first round .

He was last among the top 50 in the FIDE world rankings in April 2007.

National team

At the 1998 Chess Olympiad in Elista , Volkov played in the second Russian team, and in 1999 he took part in the European Team Championship in Batumi .

societies

In the Russian team championship Volkov 1999 played for Tsem Smolensk , 2000 and 2001 for the master Lentransgas Saint Petersburg , 2002 University Maikop , again in 2003 for St. Petersburg from 2005 to 2009 for the Mordovian club TPS Saransk . At the European Club Cup he took part in 1998 with Kalitschik Soligorsk , 2000 to 2003 with Mikhail Chigorin St. Petersburg (where he finished second both with the team and in the individual ranking on the sixth board in 2002), 2005, 2006 and 2008 with the TPS Saransk as well 2007 with Alkaloid Skopje . He also played in the French first division in the 2004/05 season for Mulhouse Philidor and in the 2018 Spanish team championship for Oromana Schneider Electric .

Web links

Commons : Sergei Wiktorowitsch Wolkow  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Interview ( memento of August 23, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) with Alexander Nikolajewitsch Pantschenko (English)
  2. ↑ After a playoff Mikhael Gurevich finished 2nd ahead of Sergei Volkov . From The Week in Chess # 399 of July 1, 2002
  3. ↑ Tie-Breaks at the European Championships 2008 ( Memento from September 21, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
  4. ↑ Sergei Volkov's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  5. ↑ Sergei Volkov's results at European Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  6. ↑ Sergei Volkov's results at Russian team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  7. ↑ Sergei Volkov's results at European Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)
personal data
SURNAME Volkov, Sergei Viktorovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Volkov, Sergey (FIDE); Волков, Сергей Викторович (Russian); Wołkow, Siergiej (Polish)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian chess grandmaster
DATE OF BIRTH 7th February 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Saransk