Vladimir Baklan
Volodymyr Baklan (Ukrainian Володимир Баклан; notation at the World Chess Federation FIDE Vladimir Baklan; born February 25, 1978 in Kiev) is a Ukrainian chess player. Since 1998, he has the title of chess grandmaster.
Life
The chess games taught him his father, as Volodymyr Baklan was seven years old. His first chess coach was the master candidate AV Goldberg, and later he was also trained by Alexei Kosikow, in a chess group including Spartak Vysochin, Alexey Kislinsky and Vitaly Malykin. Baklan graduated from the National University of Physical Culture and Sport with the conclusion of sports and chess coach. He is married and has a son.
Achievements
The Ukrainian Youth Championship he won in the categories U12, U14 and U16. He was in Soviet Leningrad U12 Champion 1989. In 1997, he won the Ukrainian Cup in Single Alushta. 1998, also in Alushta, he was tied second after Buchholz. With the Ukrainian national team, he participated in the Chess Olympiads in 2000 and 2002, reaching 2000 in Istanbul with the team to third place. He played for the Ukraine also at the European Team Championships in 2001 and 2003, as well as at the World Team Championship 2001 in Yerevan, which won the Ukraine. In 2005 he won the open Dutch Blitz Championship and the open Belgian Rapid Chess Championship.
His first chess club was a locomotive Kiev. Club chess he played in the Ukraine later for Danko Donbass Donetsk with whom he Ukrainian team champion several times, then for Keystone Kiev, which plays since 2008 under the name PVK Kiev Chess, with whom he also Ukrainian team champion in 2008 and 2009. At the European Club Cup 2008 in Kallithea (Chalkidiki ), where he was also captain of the team, he won all his games. PVK Kiev reached third place. In Russia, he played a season for Ladja Kazan -1000, the then best Russian team, with which he could win in Yekaterinburg, the Russian team championship in 2002, then for the second division Perspektiva Lipetsk. He also played in the French ( first for Mulhouse Philidor, later for Marseille Duchamp ), Belgian ( for CREB ), Yugoslav ( for Schachmatik Belgrade ), Austria (for the SG wood Dohr Semriach ), Romanian ( for Medecina Timişoara), Spanish ( Jaime Casas Monzón ), Icelandic ( Champion 2011 with Taflfélags Bolungarvíkur ) and Polish ( for KU AZS UMCS Lublin ) team championship. In Germany he played in the seasons 1997/ 98 and 1998/99 in the chess Bundesliga for Freiburg SK - Zahringen and early 2000s for two seasons for the USC Magdeburg. In the 2005/06 season he played for the PSC Hanover in the Oberliga Nord, from the 2006/07 season for TSV Bindlach shareholder in the chess Bundesliga and from the season 2008/ 09 for the SG Porz in the 2 League West. With the SG Porz he was German in 2010 Bindlach team champion in blitz chess.
In 1995 he received the title of International Master in 1998 the title of chess grandmaster. The three standards for the Grandmaster title, he scored in his first chess Bundesliga season 1997/98, at the 15th Berlin summer 1997, and at the tournament in Capelle- la -Grande in 1998.