The chess games of Nikolai Shalnev

Nikolai Shalnev
Number of games in database: 5
Years covered: 1987 to 2004
Current FIDE rating: 2450
Highest rating achieved in database: 2469
Overall record: +0 -2 =3 (30.0%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
      Based on games in the database; may be incomplete.

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Game	Result	Moves	Year	Event/Locale	Opening
1. N Shalnev vs V Vepkhvishvili	0-1	40	1987	18th Saaremaa Karikaturniir Males	C77 Ruy Lopez
2. N Shalnev vs Khmelnitsky	0-1	18	1989	Simferopol UKR-sf	C31 King's Gambit Declined, Falkbeer Counter Gambit
3. N Shalnev vs J Aijala	½-½	60	1994	Helsinki op1	B01 Scandinavian
4. N Shalnev vs A P Santos	½-½	20	2004	20th Cappelle la Grande	B91 Sicilian, Najdorf, Zagreb (Fianchetto) Variation
5. N Gouliev vs N Shalnev	½-½	14	2004	20th Cappelle la Grande	B92 Sicilian, Najdorf, Opocensky Variation

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Jan-10-06		Caissanist: Somewhat mysterious grandmaster from Ukraine, now living in Germany. For most of his career Nicolai Shalnev has been a solid enough master, generally rated in the high 2200s or low 2300s. Then, in his mid fifties, his results improved dramatically, although he seems not to have been playing in very many tournaments. Shalnev finally gained his GM title in 2001 at age 57; his rating eventually peaked in 2003 at an astonishing 2553. It has recently dropped back to 2512, but that still makes him one of the strongest players in the world over 60--he currently ranks fifth among active players, ahead (often way ahead) of many well known GMs. With all these accomplishments, however, he seems to be all but unknown; I couldn't find any information about him at all on the net, except for his birthday. This is certainly a remarkable story. It might be a story of remarkable late-career development, or it might be one of remarkably brazen title-buying. There doesn't seem to be any way of knowing.

Oct-02-09		Tabanus: It seems he has played about one tournament per year the last years. He's 2450 now: http://ratings.fide.com/id.phtml?ev...

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