Andrei Volokitin

Andrij Volokitin (Ukrainian Андрій Олександрович Волокітін, scientific transcription Andrij Olexandrowytsch Volokytin, often in the English spelling Andrei Volokitin; born June 18, 1986 in Lviv ) is a Ukrainian chess master.

Volokitin 1997 and 1998 Ukrainian youth champion U12 1998 in Oropesa del Mar Youth World Championship U12 ago Teymur Rəcəbov, 1999 Vice World Champion U14. In 2001 he was runner-up in Ordzhonikidze, Ukraine, following Alexander Berelowitsch. In the same year he was 15 years old, appointed by the FIDE Grand Master and took in Moscow participated in the FIDE KO world championship, retired but against the Russian Konstantin Zakayev in the 1st round (after rapid chess stinging, the regular competition ended 1-1). 2003 won Volokitin the Southampton Open in Bermuda, 2004, he was on top of the discharged after knockout system championship of Ukraine in Kharkov by a 1.5-0.5 Final victory over Anton Korobov. In the same year he steered by 8.5 points from 12 games ( 6, -1, = 5) for the Chess Olympiad in Calvia an important contribution to the gold medal win of the Ukrainian national team at. In 2005 he won jointly with Boris Gelfand in Biel, the same year the knockout tournament in Lucerne by a 2-0 final win over the American Hikaru Nakamura. Volokitin played in various clubs in Europe, in the chess Bundesliga he played from 2007 to 2009 for the TV Tegernsee, 2003-2007 and since 2009 for the sports fans Katernberg. Volokitin counts Ruslan Ponomariov addition, Serhiy Karjakin and other young talents of the mainstays of successful young Ukrainian chess school.

In 2007 he published in collaboration with the chess coach Vladimir Grabinski the book Perfect your chess (ISBN 978-1-904600-82-4 ).