_(cropped).jpg) Volokitin in 2016 | |
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| Born | (1986-06-18)18 June 1986 (age 39) Lviv,Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Chess career | |
| Country | Ukraine |
| Title | Grandmaster (2001) |
| FIDE rating | 2619 (November 2025) |
| Peak rating | 2725 (March 2013) |
| Peak ranking | No. 20 (January 2005) |
Andrei Oleksandrovych Volokitin (Ukrainian:Андрій Волокітін,Andriy Volokitin; born 18 June 1986 inLviv) is aUkrainianchessgrandmaster. He is a two-time Ukrainian champion and has competed in fourChess Olympiads, winning team gold in 2004 along with team bronze in 2012.
He won two medals at theWorld Youth Chess Championship, taking silver in 1998 atOropesa del Mar at under-12 level and bronze at the same venue a year later in the under-14 category. In 1999, he was a member of the Ukrainian national youth team which won the U-16Chess Olympiad inArtek, Ukraine.[1]
He achieved the grandmaster title in 2001, when he was 15 years old. In 2004, he entered the top 100 of theFIDE world ranking list, won the 73rdUkrainian Chess Championship and was a member of the gold medal–winning national team at the36th Chess Olympiad. In 2005 he won theLausanne Young Masters tournament with a rating performance of 2984.[2]
In January 2012, Volokitin won the Donostia Chess Festival's knockout tournament inSan Sebastián,Basque Country, Spain, by defeatingViktor Láznička in the final. In this event each player faced the opponent on two boards simultaneously, playing White on one and Black on the other. This peculiar format, which was held for the first time in this tournament, was later named "Basque chess".[3][4]
In 2015, he won the Ukrainian championship, held in Lviv, edging out on tiebreakMartyn Kravtsiv andZahar Efimenko, after all three players scored 7 points from 11 games.[5] In 2016, Volokitin won as clear first the 20thVidmar Memorial, played as international invitation tournament inBled, Slovenia.
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