Volodymyr Baklan

Volodymyr Baklan
Surname	Volodymyr Olehowytsch Baklan
Association	Ukraine
Born	February 25, 1978 Kiev
title	International Master (1995) Grand Master (1998)
Current  Elo rating	2587 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating	2655 (Nov. 2009, Jul. 2014 and Dec. 2014)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Volodymyr Olehowytsch Baklan ( Ukrainian Володимир Олегович Баклан ; spelling for the World Chess Federation FIDE Vladimir Baklan ; born February 25, 1978 in Kiev ) is a Ukrainian chess player . Since 1998 he has held the title of chess grandmaster .

Life

His father taught him to play chess when Volodymyr Baklan was seven years old. His first chess coach was the master candidate AV Goldberg, later he was also trained by Alexei Kosikow , in a chess group with, among others, Spartak Vysochyn , Alexey Kislinsky and Vitali Malykin . Baklan graduated from the National University of Physical Culture and Sports with a degree in sports and chess coach. He is married and has a son.

successes

He won the Ukrainian youth championship in the U12, U14 and U16 categories. In 1989 he became the Soviet U12 champion in Leningrad . In 1997 he was able to win the Ukrainian individual championship in Alushta . In 1998, also in Alushta, he finished second after Buchholz with the same number of points. With the Ukrainian national team he took part in the Chess Olympiads in 2000 and 2002 , where he achieved third place with the team in Istanbul in 2000 . He also played for Ukraine at the 2001 and 2003 European Team Championships, as well as at the 2001 World Team Championships in Yerevan , which Ukraine won. In 2005 he won the open Dutch blitz championship and the open Belgian rapid championship.

His first chess club was Lokomotiv Kiev . He later played club chess in Ukraine for Danko Donbass Donetsk , with whom he became Ukrainian team champion in 1999 and 2001, then for Keystone Kiev , who has been playing under the name PVK Kiew Chess since 2008 , with whom he also became Ukrainian team champion in 2007, 2008 and 2009 . At the European Club Cup 2008 in Kallithea (Chalkidiki) , where he was also the team's captain, he won all of his games. PVK Kiev took third place. In Russia he played one season for Ladja Kazan-1000 , the best Russian team at the time, with whom he won the Russian team championship in Yekaterinburg in 2002 , then for the second division Perspektiva Lipetsk . He also played in the French (first for Philidor Mülhausen , later for Marseille Duchamps , since 2014 for Cercle d'Echecs de Strasbourg ), Belgian (for CREB ), Yugoslav (for chessmatic Belgrade ), Austrian (for SG Holz Dohr Semriach ) , Romanian (for Medecina Timişoara ), Spanish (for Jaime Casas Monzón ), Icelandic (2011 champion with Taflfélags Bolungarvíkur ), Polish (for KU AZS UMCS Lublin ) and Hungarian (for Pénzügyőr Sport Egyesület and the MTK Budapest ) team championship. In Germany he played in the 1997/98 and 1998/99 seasons in the German Chess League for SK Zähringen in 1921 , and from 1999 to 2001 for USC Magdeburg . In the 2005/06 season he played for PSC Hannover in the Oberliga Nord, from the 2006/07 season for the TSV Bindlach shareholder in the Bundesliga and from the 2008/09 season for SG Porz in the 2nd League West. With SG Porz he became German team champion in blitz chess in Bindlach in 2010 .

In 1995 he received the title of International Master , in 1998 the title of Chess Grandmaster . He achieved the three norms for the grandmaster title in his first Bundesliga season 1997/98, the 15th Berlin summer 1997 and the tournament in Cappelle-la-Grande in 1998.

Web links

Commons : Wolodymyr Baklan  - Collection of Images

• Replayable chess games by Volodymyr Baklan on chessgames.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wolodymyr Baklan's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
2. ↑ Wolodymyr Baklan's results at the European Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
3. ↑ Volodymyr Baklan's results at the World Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)