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Sergey Volkov
Number of games in database: 726
Years covered: 1991 to 2013
Last FIDE rating: 2610
Highest rating achieved in database: 2696
Overall record: +279 -148 =246 (59.7%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
      Based on games in the database; may be incomplete.
      53 exhibition games, odds games, etc. are excluded from this statistic.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:
 Nimzo Indian (93) 
    E20 E25 E46 E42 E24
 Slav (53) 
    D10 D12 D11 D14 D15
 King's Indian (44) 
    E92 E94 E91 E90 E97
 Queen's Gambit Declined (37) 
    D31 D35 D30 D38 D37
 Grunfeld (36) 
    D85 D97 D91 D94 D98
 Semi-Slav (19) 
    D47 D45 D46
With the Black pieces:
 French Defense (151) 
    C11 C12 C02 C05 C06
 Slav (135) 
    D15 D10 D12 D11 D13
 French (72) 
    C11 C12 C00 C13 C10
 French Tarrasch (45) 
    C05 C06 C03 C07
 English, 1 c4 e5 (22) 
    A21 A29 A20 A22 A28
 Queen's Pawn Game (10) 
    D02 D00 A50 A46
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NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   S Volkov vs Yifan Hou, 2008 1-0
   S Volkov vs C Balogh, 2007 1-0
   Nijboer vs S Volkov, 2005 0-1
   S Volkov vs Leko, 2000 1/2-1/2

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS: [what is this?]
   FIDE World Championship Knockout Tournament (2004)

NOTABLE TOURNAMENTS: [what is this?]
   56th Russian Championships (2003)
   Aeroflot Open (2005)
   Gibtelecom Chess Festival (2006)
   6th Aeroflot Festival (2007)
   European Individual Championship (2008)
   61st Russian Championship Higher League (2008)
   European Individual Championships (2010)
   Dubai Open (2010)
   13th Dubai Open (2011)
   12th European Individual Championship (2011)
   13th European Individual Championship (2012)
   European Individual Championships (2013)

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SERGEY VOLKOV
(born Feb-07-1974) Russia

[what is this?]
Grandmaster (1998). Russian Champion in 2000. Peak rank 50, peak rating 2659 in July 2007. (1)

Sergei Volkov (Сергей Волков) won the Chigorin Memorial in 1999 (shared with Shirov), in 1998 and in 2009 with 7/9. =2nd at the European Individual Championship of 2002. =1st at the 2005 Rilton Cup and 1st in the 2011 Rilton Cup. Won 2nd International Livigno Chess Open in 2011 and placed 2nd at the 2013 Dubai Open.

Played in the European Club Cup for the years 1998, 2000-2003, 2005-2008. His best result was a team and individual silver in 2002 when he played for the Mikhail Chigorin St. Petersburg club.

He is a well-known specialist of the MacCutcheon Variation of the French Defense.

(1) http://ratings.fide.com/toparc.phtm...; Wikipedia article: Sergey Volkov %28chess%29


 page 1 of 30; games 1-25 of 726  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves Year Event/LocaleOpening
1. S Volkov vs Sutovsky  0-137 1991 juniorsE67 King's Indian, Fianchetto
2. S Volkov vs A Shariyazdanov  1-050 1991 URS-ch U18E10 Queen's Pawn Game
3. Rublevsky vs S Volkov  1-036 1991 SmolenskC05 French, Tarrasch
4. S Volkov vs Rublevsky  0-129 1993 Moscow ch jrD15 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
5. S Volkov vs I Ibragimov  1-039 1995 Moscow opD20 Queen's Gambit Accepted
6. Vasiukov vs S Volkov  1-052 1995 Moscow opC00 French Defense
7. Kholmov vs S Volkov  ½-½58 1995 Moscow opC11 French
8. Tseshkovsky vs S Volkov  0-135 1995 Novgorod opC11 French
9. G Timoshenko vs S Volkov  ½-½45 1996 Petrov memC11 French
10. S Volkov vs Aronian  1-043 1996 RUS-Cup3D91 Grunfeld, 5.Bg5
11. S Volkov vs Aronian  1-055 1996 RUS-Cup2D91 Grunfeld, 5.Bg5
12. Chekhov vs S Volkov  1-034 1996 Alekhine opD15 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
13. Savon vs S Volkov  1-046 1997 SochiD15 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
14. M Brodsky vs S Volkov  ½-½19 1997 Minsk opC11 French
15. S Volkov vs Kharlov 0-154 1997 RUS-Cup7A41 Queen's Pawn Game (with ...d6)
16. S Volkov vs V Malakhov  1-050 1997 Minsk opA44 Old Benoni Defense
17. S Volkov vs Ponomariov 0-138 1997 RUS-Cup6A57 Benko Gambit
18. R Shcherbakov vs S Volkov  1-051 1997 Russian Cup 9th LegD10 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
19. Kharlov vs S Volkov  0-131 1997 Minsk opD02 Queen's Pawn Game
20. B Socko vs S Volkov  0-146 1998 Groningen OpenC11 French
21. S Volkov vs Y Shulman  1-053 1998 Chigorin memE92 King's Indian
22. V Zvjaginsev vs S Volkov 1-037 1998 Russian CupC02 French, Advance
23. S Volkov vs Y Yakovich  1-026 1998 RUS-chE25 Nimzo-Indian, Samisch
24. S Smagin vs S Volkov  1-042 1998 RUS-ch51C06 French, Tarrasch
25. S Volkov vs A Korotylev  1-054 1998 RUS-Cup06E92 King's Indian
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Sep-11-05  percyblakeney: ...but after his loss in the last round against Khalifman the latter and Bareev finished with 6.5/9: http://www.russiachess.ru/mods.php?...;
Sep-11-05  iron maiden: <percyblakeney>, thanks for that. There are seven qualification slots available; do you know how the tiebreaks (if there are any) will work?
Sep-12-05  percyblakeney: ChessBase says: <For some reason word is that Motylev (number nine in our tables and on the official web site) has qualified, not Zvjaginsev or Tomashevsky>

http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail...

Sep-12-05  aw1988: Zvjaginsev is a crying shame. He is probably one of the most dramatic players...
Sep-12-05
Premium Chessgames Member
  acirce: <Bareev wins 58th Russian Individual Championship>

Another loss for people who trust Chessbase for chess news.

Sep-12-05  iron maiden: <aw1988> I was rooting for Zvjaginsev to qualify too. A pity.
Sep-13-05
Premium Chessgames Member
  acirce: I may have to apologize to Chessbase. I hear from a couple of Russian speaking persons that this event actually seems to have had the status of an official championship (and at the same time a qualifier to the "superfinal" championship in December). But it sounds odd and I don't know for sure.
Sep-13-05
Premium Chessgames Member
  TheAlchemist: <acirce> Odd Lie? :-)
Dec-19-05
Premium Chessgames Member
  Dim Weasel: <aw1988> <iron maiden> Superfinal is beginning and Zvjaginsev is there after all.
Feb-07-06  BIDMONFA: Sergey Volkov

VOLKOV, Sergey
http://www.bidmonfa.com/volkov_serg...
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Apr-20-08  biglo: Sorry Chess Games but http://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?... says his rating in April 2008 is 2633 not 2035
May-03-08  kasp: Yes. His current rating is 2633 and he finished 3rd at European Individual Championship. Strong player!
Oct-25-09
Premium Chessgames Member
  Tabanus: With 7.0/9 Volkov today won the Chigorin Memorial 2009. Congratulations!

http://www.totalchess.spb.ru/kalend...

Oct-25-09
Premium Chessgames Member
  Tabanus: Parimarjan Negi participated (27th place), and the first to break the news in English was

http://www.cyberchess.co.in/chess-n...

Oct-29-09
Premium Chessgames Member
  Tabanus: Volkov won the Chigorin Mem. also in 1999 (shared with Shirov) (0 games in database) and 1998 (2 games).

Strong player!

Feb-07-10  kurtrichards: <Sergey Volkov, born February 07, 1974> He lost his game against Inarkiev at Moscow Open 2010 today. Inarkiev is in no mood to give the birthday boy Sergey a present. Happy Birthday,Sergey! Beat Ernesto at Aeroflot.
Feb-07-10  eternaloptimist: well, i see that kurtrichards also noticed that volkov lost on his birthday. that's too bad. inarkiev had to win to tie for 1st place so u can't blame him for not agreeing to a draw w/ him.
May-02-10  asianwarrior: Highest rating achieved in database is 2659. Current FIDE rating is 2045. What happened to him?
May-02-10  Don Cossacks: < asianwarrior: Highest rating achieved in database is 2659. Current FIDE rating is 2045. What happened to him?>That's obviously an error.His rating is 2612 as of May 1.
Jul-17-10
Premium Chessgames Member
  Tabanus: Placed 5th in the 9th Al Saleh Open (Yemen) 2-8 June 2010:

http://www.chess-results.com/tnr347...

Jul-20-10
Premium Chessgames Member
  Tabanus: 3rd in the 2nd Rethymno Open (Crete, Greece) 13-20 July 2010:

http://www.chess-results.com/tnr360...

Jan-06-11  Don Cossacks: He won Rilton Cup ahead of Naiditsch,Macieja and Berg. Shimanov (also of Russia) landed on an impressive second place.
Sep-22-11
Premium Chessgames Member
  wordfunph: Sergey Volkov wins the 2nd International Livigno Chess Open 2011

http://www.chessdom.com/sergey-volk...

Jan-31-12
Premium Chessgames Member
  wordfunph: GM Sergey Volkov is a well-known specialist of the MacCutcheon Variation of the French Defense.

Source: Chess Evolution March 2011

Mar-27-12
Premium Chessgames Member
  waustad: FIDE has 6 players with this name, though 2 have slightly different spellings of the first name when transliterated to latin characters. No wonder the script looking up ratings was confused.
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