Igor Khenkin
Igor Khenkin (Russian Игорь Хенкин, Igor Chenkin; born March 21, 1968 in Vladimir, RSFSR ) is a Russian- German chess player.
Career
At the age of 11 years Igor Khenkin won the men's championship of the circle Vladimir and was already 13 years old junior national champion of the under 16 year olds. His coaches included, among others, Mark and Alexander Nikitin Dworezki who also oversaw former world champion Garry Kasparov and seconded.
In 1990 he was awarded the title of International Master by FIDE, 1992, he was awarded the grandmaster title. Towards the end of the 1990s played Khenkin short time for the Israeli Chess Federation, but changed in 1998 due to disagreements with Israeli officials back to the Russian Chess Federation back.
Khenkin came to Germany in 1996, his parents had previously emigrated from Russia and based in Weilburg ( Hesse).
Khenkin now has the German nationality.
Achievements
Khenkin won the 1991 Paris Championship, the open and shared 1st place in the Cansys tournament in Budapest. In 1992, he won the tournament in Tel Aviv together with Ilia Smirin. A total of five times he won the Chess Open of Geneva (1994, 1996, 1998, 2002, 2003 ). He participated in the FIDE knockout world championship 2001/2002 in Moscow, but failed in the second round in the " tie-breaker " to Rustam Kasimjanov, the FIDE World Champion of 2004.
Khenkin has taken part in the German Championships five times. In 2005 he finished fifth, fourth in 2006 and 2010, he reached # 2 At the German Championship 2011 in Bonn, he won with 6.5 points from 9 games the title after scoring against the same number of points in January Gustafsson. 2012 in Osterburg / Altmark he was runner-up.
Chess team
National
Khenkin participated with the German national team at the Chess Olympiads in 2008 and 2012. 2009 and 2013 he was a member at the European Team Championships for the German team, he also took part in the 2013 World Team Championship.
Chess club
After his move to Germany Khenkin first played in the 1997/1998 season for the chess friends Schoeneck, then from 1999 to 2009 for the chess Bundesliga TV Tegernsee, consistently on the first or second board. After Tegernsee withdrew from the league, Khenkin played for SV Wiesbaden - Hesse first in the league. After a march through the team reached in the 2012/13 season, the first Chess League, but retired after the season in the 2nd Bundesliga chess back. In the Swiss National League A Khenkin played in the 2010 season at the Club d' Echecs de Genève. In the Hungarian NB I. Szabó László csoport Khenkin played from 2006 to 2011 when Csuti Antal SK Zalaegerszeg and was with this 2008 Hungarian team champion. In the French Top 16 ( up to 2003 National I) he played from 2001 to 2004 at Echiquier's Nanceien from 2007 to 2009 La Tour Sarrazine Antibes. The British Four Nations Chess League won Khenkin 2000 Slough, where he was active from 1999 to 2001, the Polish team champion in 1997 and 1998 with SzK Stilon Gorzów Wielkopolsi.