Oleg Romanishin
Oleh Mychajlowytsch Romanyschyn (Ukrainian Олег Михайлович Романишин, often in the Russian form of the name Oleg Romanishin; born January 10, 1952 in Lviv ) is a Ukrainian chess player and Grandmaster since 1976.
During the Soviet era, the Grand Master for many years was one of the strongest players of his country. He regularly attended the discharged annually Soviet individual championships. This tournament was in the chess world as by far the strongest and toughest competition of its kind, and already qualified for the competition was regarded as proof of absolute world class of a chess player.
Romanyschyn first represented the Soviet Union and later Ukraine in numerous international competitions as a national player. He won in 1978 with the USSR and then in 1996 with the Ukraine received silver medal at the Chess Olympiad in Buenos Aires and in Yerevan. These are still two bronze medals at the Olympic Games in 1998 joined in Elista and 2000 in Istanbul, this time for Ukraine. He also won with the team of Ukraine and the World Team Championship in 2001. Moreover he won in 1977, 1980 and 1983 respectively with the USSR team in the European Team Championship. With the team of Ukraine came still a silver medal in 1992 at the same tournament to do so. He also conquered the USSR team, the World Student Championship 1974, 1976 and 1977. Finally, he was still single European Youth Champion in 1973.
A great success was finally victory with the team of Ukraine in Spartakiade the peoples of the USSR in 1981.
At victories in major international tournaments came Romanyschyn 1969 in Antwerp, 1975 in Novi Sad, 1976 in Yerevan and in Dortmund, 1977 in Hastings and Cienfuegos and Leningrad and Malgrat de Mar, 1979 in Gausdal, 1980 in Polanica, 1981 in Lviv, 1983 in Jurmala, 1985 in Moscow, 1985/86 in Reggio Emilia. In the 1990s, the tournaments in Debrecen in 1990 and 1992 still came again in Polanica it. He was second in the Chess Festival Bad Wörishofen, behind Karen Movsesjan and before Alexander Khalifman 1996.
Furthermore, he also participated in the Candidates Tournament in 1994 in part to the World Cup, was therefore a promising contender for the title. He qualified this with the 3rd place 1993 PCA qualifying tournament in Groningen, then retired in the quarterfinals to eventual winners of the candidates tournament, the Indian Viswanathan Anand in New York.
Oleh Romanyschyn, a trained specialist in German, has lived since his birth in Lviv ( Lemberg), the largest Western Ukrainian town in Galicia at the foot of the Carpathian Mountains.
The Fianchetto system g2 - g3 4 and 4 Dd1 -c2 d7 -d5 5 c4xd5 Dd8xd5 6 Sg1 -f3 - f5 Qd5! 7 Dc2xf5 e6xf5
(and the Romani ham Psakhis variant 4 e2 -e3 b7 - b6 5 Sg1 - c7 - c5 6 e2 a2 -a3 a5 - Bb4 and the Romani Schin Gambit 4 Dd1 -c2 d7 -d5 5 a2 -a3 Lb4xc3 c7 - c5 Dc2xc3 6 7 d4xc5 d5 -d4 )
In the Nimzowitsch - Indian defense were introduced by him.
Furthermore, the structure with 7 Dd1 -c2 and 8 Tf1 -d1 in the classic g3 King's Indian by 6 ... Sb8 - d7
As well as the variants 8 b2 -b3 - b8 Ta8 9 Lc1 b2 - b7 - b5 10 c4xb5 a6xb5 11 Tf1 - e1 and 8 b2 -b3 - b8 Ta8 9 Nc3 -d5 in the Panno - variant of Fianchetto King's Indian by 6 ... c6 7 Sb8 - Nb1 - c3 a7 - a6.
Current Elo: 2500 (as of July 2012).