Vitali Golod

Vitali Golod, 2008
Association	Soviet Union (until 1991) Ukraine (1992 to 1995) Israel (since 1996)
Born	June 23, 1971 Lviv
title	International Master (1993) Grand Master (1996)
Current  Elo rating	2499 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating	2606 (January to June 2008)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Vitali Golod ( Ukrainian Віталій Голод Witalij Holod , Russian Виталий Голод Witali Golod , born June 23, 1971 in Lviv ) is a Ukrainian chess player who has been playing for the Israeli Chess Federation since 1996 .

Life

In February 1995 he and his family moved from Lviv, Ukraine to Beer Sheva , Israel. He was captain of the Israeli women's national team at the 2009 European Team Championships in Novi Sad , the 2010 Chess Olympiad in Khanty-Mansiysk and the 2012 Chess Olympiad in Istanbul .

successes

Single successes

In 1991 he won the last individual championship of the Ukrainian SSR in Simferopol before independence. In 1993 he won in Ufa , the open championship of chess club Kadyr Ufa in a tournament of Category 7, the Danube Open in Bratislava and the Skoda Open in Mladá Boleslav . In 1994 he shared first place in a Category 7 tournament in Satu Mare . In 1995, the year he moved to Israel, he won the Heraklion Open in Heraklion . In 1997 he was shared winner of the Open in Rishon LeZion , ahead of, for example, Ilia Smirin , Lev Psachis and Alexander Goldin . At the 2004 Israeli individual championship in Ramat Aviv , he was tied for second place behind Sergey Erenburg . In the same year he won a category 9 invitation tournament in Santa Monica and was shared second at the 8th Open Bavarian Championships in Bad Wiessee . He won the Israeli individual championship in 2010 in Haifa by one point.

Club teams

In the German Federal Chess League, he plays for SV Mülheim-Nord . In Israel he played for the Beersheba Chess Club , with which he won the Israeli team championship six times: 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006. He won the Israeli club cup with Beersheba five times: 1997, 1999, 2000, 2005 and 2008 He was also successful at the European Club Cups , the European Cup for club teams: At the Club Cup 1998 in Belgrade , which was held at the turn of the year 1998/99, he took third place with the team, and in 2004 in Izmir he achieved an Elo -Performance of 2716 the third best result on the sixth board. At the Club Cup 2006 in Fügen his game against Wladimir Hakobjan was voted the best of the tournament in the fourth round. At the Club Cup 2008 in Kallithea (Chalkidiki) he played for his new club: the Ashdod Illit Chess Club , with which he was Israeli team champion in the 2008 and 2009 seasons. Overall, he took part in the European Club Cup twelve times with Beersheba and Ashdod . In 1992 and 1994 he played in the Romanian team championship for Alba Iulia , in 1993/94 in Slovakia for Rimavská Sobota and in the seasons 2006/07 and 2007/08 in Belgium for Het Vliegend Peerd Bredene . With Bredene he won the 2007/08 team championship as a climber. In the Slovak Extra League he played in the 1993/94 season for the ŠK Slovan Rimavská Sobota .

title

He became international champion in 1993, he has had the grandmaster title since 1996. The norms for this he achieved at the 5th Forlì Open in 1992, at the Romanian team championship in 1994 in Băile Herculane and the third grandmaster norm when he won the Heraklion Open in 1995. Since 2012 he has also held the title of FIDE Senior Trainer.

Web links

Commons : Vitali Golod  - Collection of Images

• Vitali Golod at the World Chess Federation FIDE (English)
• Replayable chess games by Vitali Golod on 365Chess.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gavin Rabinowitz: Beersheba Masters Kings, Knights, Pawns. In: Los Angeles Times . January 30, 2005 (English).
2. ^ Winner of the Ukrainian individual championship from 1924 ( Memento from March 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (English).
3. ↑ Ufa 1993 (English).
4. ↑ Bratislava 1993 (English).
5. ↑ Mladá Boleslav 1993 (English).
6. ↑ Israeli Individual Championship 2004 ( Memento from October 19, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (English).
7. ↑ 8th Open Bavarian Chess Championship 2004, press release from ( Memento of November 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Henrik Teske .
8. ↑ The Week in Chess : Israel Championships 2010 (English).
9. ↑ Vitali Golod - Vladimir Akopian on ( Memento from October 30, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) monroi.com (English).
10. ↑ Vitali Golod's results at European Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English).
11. ↑ Vitali Golod's results in the Slovak Extraliga on olimpbase.org (English).