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Zahar Efimenko
Number of games in database: 742
Years covered: 1999 to 2013
Last FIDE rating: 2677
Highest rating achieved in database: 2708
Overall record: +249 -106 =360 (60.0%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
      Based on games in the database; may be incomplete.
      27 exhibition games, odds games, etc. are excluded from this statistic.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:  Sicilian (140)      B92 B84 B90 B30 B83  Ruy Lopez (78)      C77 C78 C65 C67 C80  French Defense (35)      C11 C05 C10 C07 C03  Caro-Kann (34)      B12 B18 B19 B17 B13  Sicilian Najdorf (32)      B92 B90 B99 B96  Sicilian Scheveningen (28)      B84 B83 B80 B85 B81	With the Black pieces:  Sicilian (78)      B90 B92 B23 B22 B52  King's Indian (48)      E92 E83 E63 E67 E91  Sicilian Najdorf (46)      B90 B92 B96 B91 B93  Ruy Lopez (37)      C67 C97 C96 C92 C77  Queen's Indian (36)      E12 E15 E17 E13 E14  Queen's Pawn Game (23)      E00 A45 A40 A41 A46

NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   Efimenko vs E Berg, 2011 1-0
   Efimenko vs S Reutsky, 2010 1-0
   McShane vs Efimenko, 2011 0-1
   Efimenko vs G Sargissian, 2008 1/2-1/2

NOTABLE TOURNAMENTS: [what is this?]
   6th Dubai Open (2004)
   Ukrainian Championships (2005)
   Gibraltar Masters (2005)
   Gibtelecom Chess Festival (2006)
   2008 Olympiad (2008)
   European Individual Championship (2008)
   Gibraltar (2008)
   Moscow Open (2008)
   Chess Olympiad (2010)
   European Individual Championships (2010)
   Russian Team Championships (2010)
   Golden Sands (2012)

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ZAHAR EFIMENKO (born Jul-03-1985) Ukraine [what is this?] Zahar Efimenko was awarded the Grandmaster title in 2002. He was the World Under-14 champion in 1999 and champion of Ukraine in 2006. He qualified for the World Cup (2011) through his results in the European Individual Championships (2010). He defeated Czech GM Vlastimil Babula and Hungarian GM Ferenc Berkes in rounds one and two, but was eliminated from the contest in the third round rapid-game (25+10) tiebreaker by Ukrainian GM and former FIDE World Champion Ruslan Ponomariov. Wikipedia article: Zahar Efimenko

page 1 of 30; games 1-25 of 742  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. Efimenko vs Navara   ½-½ 78 1999 Groningen Young Masters C05 French, Tarrasch 2. Efimenko vs V Poletaev   1-0 41 1999 UKR-ch U18 B99 Sicilian, Najdorf, 7...Be7 Main line 3. F Berkes vs Efimenko   0-1 36 2000 t-EuCh U18 A15 English 4. Efimenko vs G Timoshenko   ½-½ 15 2000 Ukrainian Team ch C92 Ruy Lopez, Closed 5. E Pinter vs Efimenko 1-0 71 2000 t-EuCh U18 B23 Sicilian, Closed 6. Efimenko vs A Kotsuba   1-0 30 2000 Ukrainian Team ch B02 Alekhine's Defense 7. Bu Xiangzhi vs Efimenko   1-0 49 2000 KasparovChess Cadet GP net A45 Queen's Pawn Game 8. Efimenko vs S Steindorsson   ½-½ 55 2000 t-EuCh U18 B99 Sicilian, Najdorf, 7...Be7 Main line 9. Efimenko vs T Kononenko   0-1 35 2000 Ukrainian Team ch C03 French, Tarrasch 10. Efimenko vs Bu Xiangzhi   0-1 36 2000 KasparovChess Cadet GP net B62 Sicilian, Richter-Rauzer 11. I Dubinka vs Efimenko   0-1 40 2000 Ukrainian Team ch E83 King's Indian, Samisch 12. Sedlak vs Efimenko   0-1 49 2000 t-EuCh U18 B32 Sicilian 13. Efimenko vs G Arzumanian   0-1 40 2000 Ukrainian Team ch B32 Sicilian 14. Nakamura vs Efimenko   ½-½ 27 2000 KasparovChess Cadet GP net C17 French, Winawer, Advance 15. A Kamenets vs Efimenko   0-1 36 2000 Ukrainian Team ch E75 King's Indian, Averbakh, Main line 16. Efimenko vs S Bromberger   1-0 41 2000 t-EuCh U18 B78 Sicilian, Dragon, Yugoslav Attack, 10.castle long 17. Efimenko vs A Zubarev   1-0 55 2000 Ukrainian Team ch B47 Sicilian, Taimanov (Bastrikov) Variation 18. Efimenko vs Nakamura 1-0 40 2000 KasparovChess Cadet GP net B99 Sicilian, Najdorf, 7...Be7 Main line 19. G Nesterov vs Efimenko   0-1 43 2000 Ukrainian Team ch E61 King's Indian 20. Efimenko vs G Szabo   1-0 35 2000 t-EuCh U18 B85 Sicilian, Scheveningen, Classical 21. O Chaika vs Efimenko   ½-½ 33 2000 Ukrainian Team ch B24 Sicilian, Closed 22. V Tukmakov vs Efimenko   ½-½ 37 2001 Master Open E97 King's Indian 23. J Berkvens vs Efimenko   0-1 33 2001 Stork YM E97 King's Indian 24. Miroshnichenko vs Efimenko   ½-½ 17 2001 2nd Governor's Cup B52 Sicilian, Canal-Sokolsky (Rossolimo) Attack 25. Efimenko vs Blatny   1-0 68 2001 2nd IECC C10 French  page 1 of 30; games 1-25 of 742    REFINE SEARCH:   White wins (1-0) | Black wins (0-1) | Draws (1/2-1/2) | Efimenko wins | Efimenko loses

Aug-18-05    Daodejing: Very strong 20 year old player from the Ukrain. This year he won the title with Bremen in the German Bundesliga and he played the decesive game against Waganjan. Aug-30-05    tamar: An impressive attack by Efimenko culminating in 24. Bg6+!. [Event "74th Ukranian Chess Championship "] [Site "Rivne"] [Date "2005.08.30"] [Round "4.1"] [White "Efimenko, Zahar"] [Black "Neverov, Valeriy"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "B83"] [WhiteElo "2643"] [BlackElo "2572"] [PlyCount "49"] [EventDate "2005.08.24"] 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Be2 e6 7. Be3 Be7 8. Qd2 Nc6 9. f4 O-O 10. O-O-O Bd7 11. g4 Nxd4 12. Qxd4 Bc6 13. g5 Nd7 14. h4 Rc8 15. Rhg1 Re8 16. f5 b5 17. a3 Bf8 18. f6 Qc7 19. h5 d5 20. exd5 Bxd5 21. Bd3 Qe5 22. g6 Rxc3 23. gxf7+ Kxf7 24. Bg6+ hxg6 25. hxg6+ 1-0 Aug-31-05    iron maiden: Efimenko has been incredibly strong with White so far. All he needs is a draw today to put him in the finals. Jul-03-06    BIDMONFA: Zahar Efimenko EFIMENKO, Zahar http://www.bidmonfa.com/efimenko_za... _ Nov-23-08    praddy06: A underrated player has a live rating of 2689.4 +9.4 soon to break 2700 mark Sep-15-09    ROADDOG: Short vs Efimenko. Sept 20-26, 2009. Two games in data base are draws. Nigel is playing well. I dont know much about the young, and strong playing Ukranian. He'll be on his home turf against Mr. Short. Should be a good match.? Sep-20-09    walker: Zahar destroyed Short in the first game. Congratulations! May-14-10    Tabanus: http://de.academic.ru/pictures/dewi... 2nd place today in Bosna 2010: http://www.chess-results.com/tnr316... Oct-02-10    notyetagm: Efimenko blasts his way into the 2700-club, gaining <+24.2> points to <2707.2>. http://chess.liverating.org/

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