The chess games of Vadim Malakhatko

Vadim Malakhatko
Number of games in database: 986
Years covered: 1996 to 2013
Last FIDE rating: 2552
Highest rating achieved in database: 2633
Overall record: +480 -141 =345 (67.5%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
      Based on games in the database; may be incomplete.
      20 exhibition games, odds games, etc. are excluded from this statistic.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS

With the White pieces:

King's Indian (64)
    E97 E94 E91 E95 E70
Queen's Indian (52)
    E12 E15 E13 E17 E16
Queen's Gambit Declined (46)
    D37 D38 D31 D06 D30
Slav (41)
    D10 D11 D15 D13 D16
Semi-Slav (29)
    D45 D47 D48 D43 D46
Queen's Pawn Game (29)
    A41 D02 A40 A46 E10

With the Black pieces:

Sicilian (105)
    B40 B33 B22 B30 B43
French Defense (82)
    C07 C11 C01 C02 C00
Slav (60)
    D11 D10 D16 D15 D12
Modern Benoni (30)
    A57 A58
Queen's Pawn Game (30)
    A46 A45 D02 A41 E00
Benko Gambit (30)
    A57 A58

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   V Malakhatko vs J Shaw, 2007 1-0

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VADIM MALAKHATKO
(born Mar-22-1977) Ukraine (citizen of Belgium)

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In 1999 GM Vadim Malakhatko won the championship of Kiev. Tied for 1st place in Krakow open (Poland). Finished 2nd in Alushta GM tournament (Ukraine). Got 2nd place in the very strong Poland Grand Prix (obtaining 2nd place in Swidnica open, also 2nd in Bydgocz open, tied for first in Polanica Zdroj).

In 2000 he finished 5th in the zonal tournament in Ordzhenekidze.

In the year 2001 he tied for 1st in the strong GM tournament in Kiev. Same year he finished 14th in the individual European Chess Championship among men in Ohrid (Macedonia). With the Ukrainian National Team he became World Champion at the World Team Championship.

Recently (in January 2006) Malakhatko won a strong open tournament in Basel (Switzerland).

One of his most memorable games was played during Kiev chess championship against Alexey Mazurok. You can see the game here V Malakhatko vs A Mazurok, 2000. Married to WIM Anna Zozulia. Winner of the Arcapita Open (Bahrain) 2009: http://www.chess-results.com/tnr190...

Wikipedia article: Vadim Malakhatko

page 1 of 40; games 1-25 of 986

Game	Result	Moves	Year	Event/Locale	Opening
1. V Malakhatko vs G Plomp	1-0	30	1996	BEL-chT 9697	A31 English, Symmetrical, Benoni Formation
2. V Malakhatko vs I Varitski	0-1	39	1996	Yalta op	A04 Reti Opening
3. A Zakharchenko vs V Malakhatko	½-½	45	1996	Yalta op	A12 English with b3
4. V Moskalenko vs V Malakhatko	1-0	38	1996	Yalta op	A57 Benko Gambit
5. N Kushch vs V Malakhatko	0-1	46	1996	Yalta op	D15 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
6. V Malakhatko vs M Kobalia	½-½	53	1996	Yalta op	A04 Reti Opening
7. R Kozel vs V Malakhatko	0-1	43	1996	Yalta op	C02 French, Advance
8. O Chaika vs V Malakhatko	0-1	40	1996	Yalta op	C02 French, Advance
9. V Malakhatko vs E Shaposhnikov	1-0	60	1996	Yalta op	D90 Grunfeld
10. V Malakhatko vs A Chehlov	1-0	50	1996	Yalta op	A07 King's Indian Attack
11. V Malakhatko vs N Zhukova	½-½	37	1996	Yalta op	D34 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch
12. M Feygin vs V Malakhatko	1-0	39	1997	Minsk op	B03 Alekhine's Defense
13. V Malakhatko vs D Bunzmann	0-1	31	1997	Wch U20	A30 English, Symmetrical
14. A Frolov vs V Malakhatko	½-½	33	1997	Kiev	B05 Alekhine's Defense, Modern
15. V Malakhatko vs R Kozel	0-1	67	1997	UKR-ch20	E94 King's Indian, Orthodox
16. G Podkriznik vs V Malakhatko	½-½	48	1997	Wch U20	B84 Sicilian, Scheveningen
17. V Malakhatko vs V Pesotskyi	1-0	55	1997	Kiev	E97 King's Indian
18. V Malakhatko vs V Malisauskas	½-½	53	1997	Minsk op	A04 Reti Opening
19. Sarakauskas vs V Malakhatko	0-1	66	1997	Wch U20	C18 French, Winawer
20. V Malakhatko vs Kholmov	0-1	45	1997	Kiev	A17 English
21. V Malakhatko vs A Rakhmangulov	1-0	42	1997	Kiev	D34 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch
22. S Ovsejevitsch vs V Malakhatko	1-0	35	1997	UKR-ch20	E15 Queen's Indian
23. V Malakhatko vs S Rezan	1-0	37	1997	Wch U20	E97 King's Indian
24. V Malakhatko vs A Aleksandrov	0-1	63	1997	Minsk op	E51 Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3
25. V Malakhatko vs Li Shilong	0-1	66	1997	Wch U20	D45 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav


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Dec-01-04		siggemannen: modern players playing Benoni/Benko deserve respect even if i don't know much about this particular dude

Dec-01-04		mahmoudkubba: <siggemannen>:and why is that?? Is there is any especialty in Benoni/Benko when playing in Black?? please explaine to me

Dec-01-04		mahmoudkubba: <siggemannen>:Or is it because u love Benoni/Benko so much for example that u can't deserve writing about both of them when playing on black!! (chessical ones=!!)??

Dec-02-04		siggemannen: <mahmoudkubba> Well, yeah, I love those openings, not the boring Nimzoopenings everyone is playing. Also, who plays benoni plays for the win or loss and that i like most

Feb-07-06		BIDMONFA: Vadim Malakhatko MALAKHATKO, Vadim http://www.bidmonfa.com/malakhatko_... _

Feb-07-06		Belezky: Vadim Malakhatko - strong Grandmaster from the capital of Ukraine - Kiev (Kyiv in Ukrainian transcription)... During the year 1999 Vadim Malakhatko Won the championship of Kiev. Tied for 1st place in Krakow open (Poland). Finished 2nd in Alushta GM tournament (Ukraine). Got 2nd place in very strong Poland Grand Prix (obtaining 2nd place in Swidnica open, also 2nd in Bydgocz open, tied for first in Polanica Zdroj). in the year 2000 he finished 5th in the zonal tournament in Ordzhenekidze (to my mind the strongest tournaments in Ukraine ever held). In the year 2001 he tied for 1st in the strong GM tournament in Kiev. Same year he finished 14th in the individual European Chess Championship among men in Ohrid (Macedonia). With the Ukrianian National Team he became the World Champion at the World Team Championship. Recently (in January 2006) Malakhatko won strong open tournament in Basel (Switzerland)... One of his most memorable games was played during Kiev chess championship against strong master (currently an International Master) - Alexey Mazurok. http://www.malahatko.openua.net

Jul-17-09		BoardLord: Malakhatko will participate in this years Arctic Chess Challenge in Troms�, Norway. In connection with this I have written a profile of him that you can read at my blog Sjakkfantomet. It's in English. http://sjakkfantomet.blogg.no/12478...

Nov-03-09		Tabanus: He ended 11th in Arctic Chess Challenge. Married to IM Anna Zozulia. Winner of the Arcapita Open (Bahrain) 2009: http://www.chess-results.com/tnr190...

Jul-26-10		Tabanus: 6th yesterday in the Miguel Najdorf Memorial (Warsaw Poland) 17-25 July 2010: http://www.poloniachess.pl/najdorf2...

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