Vladimir Nailjewitsch Malachow

Vladimir Nailjewitsch Malachow, Villarrobledo 2008
Association	Russia
Born	November 27, 1980 Ivanovo
title	International Master (1995) Grand Master (1997)
Current  Elo rating	2669 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating	2732 (July 2010)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Wladimir Nailjewitsch Malachow ( Russian Владимир Наильевич Малахов , with the World Chess Federation FIDE Vladimir Malachow ; born November 27, 1980 in Ivanovo ) is a Russian grandmaster in chess .

Career

Malachow's chess career began in the early 1990s: in 1992 he finished second at the youth world championships for under 12-year-olds (U12) in Duisburg , and the following year he won the U14 world championship in Bratislava .

He took part in the world chess championships of the world federation FIDE in 2002 and 2004, the tournaments were held in the knockout system , Malachow failed in each case in the second round. Malachov was able to record a great success in 2003, at the European Championships in Istanbul he won the silver medal, half a point behind the winner Zurab Asmaiparashvili . The match these two rivals in the ninth round caused a stir: Asmaiparaschwili confused in the middle game , the order of its planned features, making him an entire tower would have cost, accepted the rules of chess to Fehlzug back and won the game later in the final . Malachov did not protest against the withdrawal of the train during the game.

He was able to achieve another success at the 2005 World Chess Cup in Khanty-Mansiysk , Siberia , although he failed in the fourth round to Mikhail Gurevich , but was able to assert himself in eleventh place in the placement games. This placement secured Malachov as a successor qualification for the 2007 Candidates Tournament in Elista , after Garri Kasparow (withdrawal from active chess) and Vladimir Kramnik had renounced participation. In this candidate tournament, four participants for the 2007 World Chess Championship in Mexico City were determined by 16 players in one-on-one matches over six games . Malachow failed in the first round against his compatriot Alexander Grishchuk with a match result of 1.5: 3.5 (+0 = 3 −2) after five games. In 2009 he became European champion in rapid chess . In 2011 he was awarded the honorary title of Honored Master of Sports of Russia . In 2007 , 2009 and 2011 and 2013 Malachow also took part in the World Chess Cup , his greatest success being reaching the semifinals in 2009.

National team

Malachow achieved second place with the Russian national team at the 2010 Chess Olympiad and won the 2010 World Team Championship.

societies

In the Russian team championship , Malachov played for Norilski Nikel Norilsk from 2001 to 2004 , with whom he was runner-up four times in a row and also won the European Club Cup in 2001, in 2005 for the Moscow Chess Federation , 2006 to 2009 for Ural Yekaterinburg , with whom he was in 2006 and In 2008 he was champion and in 2008 he won the European Club Cup, 2010 to 2012 for Ugra Khanty-Mansiysk and since 2013 for the team from Malachit Oblast Sverdlovsk , with which he was champion in 2014. In the Chinese team championship he played from 2008 to 2010 for Zhejiang , 2011 for Chengdu Bank and since 2012 for the team of Tianjin Nankai University , with which he became champions in 2013 . In the Swiss Bundesliga he played for the chess club Réti Zurich from 2012 to 2014 and became Swiss group champion in 2013 and 2014 . In the French Top 16 he played for CEMC Monaco in 2004 and 2006, for Club de Tremblay-en-France in 2017 and for Metz Fischer in 2019 . In the Spanish team championship , Malachow played in 2004 and 2007 for CA Intel-Tiendas UPI Mancha Real , with whom he was champion in 2004 , in 2005 and 2009 for CA Reverté Albox , with which he was champion in 2005 . In Germany he has been playing for SC Viernheim since the 2016/17 season , initially in the 2nd Bundesliga and since 2018 in the 1st Bundesliga .

Web links

Commons : Vladimir Malachow  - collection of images

• Playable chess games by Vladimir Nailjewitsch Malachow on chessgames.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Vladimir Malachov's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
2. ↑ Vladimir Malachov's results at the World Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
3. ↑ ^{a b} Vladimir Malachov's results at European Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)
4. ↑ Vladimir Malachov's results at Russian team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
5. ↑ Vladimir Malachov's results at Spanish team championships on olimpbase.org (English)