Vadim Milov


Vadim Milov at the European Club Cup 2008
Association	Soviet Union Soviet Union (until 1991) Russia (1992) Israel (1993 to 1996) Switzerland (since 1996) Russia Israel Switzerland
Born	August 1, 1972 Ufa
title	International Master (1992) Grand Master (1993)
Current Elo rating	2605 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating	2705 (July 2008)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Vadim Milov ( Russian Вадим Милов ; born August 1, 1972 in Ufa , USSR) is a Swiss chess grandmaster .

Life

Milov played for the Soviet Union and Russia until 1992 without achieving any great success. That changed the following year when he was selected player for Israel and international champion . In 1993 he became a grandmaster .

He has three times in the knockout. -System played around the FIDE World Championship :

Groningen , 1997 - in the third round he lost to Kiril Georgiev ,
Las Vegas , 1999 - already in the first round he was eliminated after losing to Bartłomiej Macieja ,
Moscow , 2001 - again in the third round he lost to Pyotr Svidler .

Milov won or shared first place in many international tournaments: Bratto (2001), Moscow (2002, Aeroflot Open ), Benasque (2002), Ashdod (2003), Lausanne (2003), Genoa (2003), Santo Domingo ( 2003), Merida , Mexico (2003, 2005 and 2006), Geneva (2004), Seville (2004), San Marino (2006), Philadelphia (2006, World Open ) and Morelia (2007).

Milov was very successful in rapid chess at the Corsica Masters in Bastia 2005. He won against Arkadij Naiditsch , Judit Polgár and Zoltán Almási . In the final he defeated Viswanathan Anand . He took part in the World Chess Cup in 2005 and 2009 . In 2005 he failed in the first round to Lewan Panzulaia , while in 2009 he first prevailed against Parimarjan Negi before failing in the second round to Şəhriyar Məmmədyarov . In July 2015, Milov won the Swiss championship for the first time .

National team

Milov took part in two Chess Olympiads , in 1994 in Moscow with Israel, in 2000 in Istanbul for Switzerland. He also represented Switzerland at the European Team Championships in 1999 and 2001.

societies

In the Swiss National League A he played for SG Biel until 2006 , with whom he became Swiss team champion in 2000 , 2001 and 2004 . In 2007 he played for Sorab Basel , 2008 for Schwarz-Weiss Bern , 2011 for the master SK Réti Zurich , from 2012 to 2014 for SG Riehen , 2015 for the Lucerne chess club and between 2016 and 2018 he played again for SW Bern. Milov played in the Swiss Bundesliga in 1999 for ASK Winterthur , from the 2006/07 season to the 2008/09 season for SV Birsfelden / Beider Basel , with whom he became Swiss group champions in 2007 and 2008 , and in the 2010/11 and 2011/12 for the SK Réti Zurich . In 2016 and 2017 he played for Cercle Valaisan.

In the Austrian Bundesliga , Milov played for Styria Graz in the 2004/05 season , in the Dutch Meesterklasse in the 2004/05 season for the champions ZZICT / De Variant Breda , in the French team championship until 2003 for Philidor Mulhouse , in 2005 for Echiquier des Papes Avignon , 2006 for Echiquier Nanceien , 2007 for Club de Chess 15 Paris and 2017 for Club de Tremblay-en-France and in the Spanish team championship 2007 for Iretza-Gros XT and 2009 for CA Escuela Int. Kasparov-Marcote Mondariz .