Vladimir Borisovich Tukmakov
Number of games in database: 2,398
Years covered: 1962 to 2007
Current FIDE rating: 2547
Highest rating achieved in database: 2605
Overall record: +920 -362 =1054 (61.9%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
      Based on games in the database; may be incomplete.
      62 exhibition games, odds games, etc. are excluded from this statistic.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:  King's Indian (175)      E97 E60 E73 E68 E62  Queen's Pawn Game (101)      E00 A40 A41 A46 E10  Queen's Indian (96)      E15 E12 E17 E16 E18  Sicilian (83)      B42 B36 B97 B96 B83  Catalan (61)      E04 E06 E05 E08 E01  Grunfeld (57)      D97 D76 D85 D78 D74	With the Black pieces:  Sicilian (344)      B66 B67 B22 B56 B83  Grunfeld (140)      D85 D86 D97 D80 D94  Sicilian Richter-Rauser (81)      B66 B67 B62 B64 B69  Slav (66)      D17 D15 D19 D10 D12  Queen's Indian (65)      E15 E12 E17 E18 E13  Ruy Lopez (53)      C95 C80 C61 C82 C77

NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   V Tukmakov vs D Norwood, 1990 1-0
   Doroshkievich vs V Tukmakov, 1970 0-1
   V Tukmakov vs Korchnoi, 1970 1-0
   Kasparov vs V Tukmakov, 1982 1/2-1/2
   V Tukmakov vs Speelman, 1994 1-0
   S Bouaziz vs V Tukmakov, 1982 1/2-1/2
   Sveshnikov vs V Tukmakov, 1985 1/2-1/2
   Bronstein vs V Tukmakov, 1972 1/2-1/2
   Karpov vs V Tukmakov, 1983 1/2-1/2

GAME COLLECTIONS: [what is this?]
   50th USSR Championship 1983 by Benzol
   Madrid 1973 by suenteus po 147
   Wijk aan Zee Hoogovens 1984 by suenteus po 147
   Tilburg Interpolis 1984 by suenteus po 147

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VLADIMIR BORISOVICH TUKMAKOV (born Mar-15-1946) Ukraine [what is this?] Vladimir Borisovich Tukmakov was born on the 15th of March 1946 in Odessa. He became a GM in 1972. He scored most of his best tournament results in the 1970's, including 2nd after Robert James Fischer at Buenos Aires 1970, 4th= with Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian after Anatoli Karpov, Leonid Stein and Vasily Smyslov at Moscow 1971 and half a point behind Anatoli Karpov at Madrid in 1973. Tukmakov participated in 14 USSR championships between 1967 and 1989, scoring approximately 50%, and coming in second in 1970 and 1983. In 1984 he played on the USSR Olympic team.(1) He also captained the victorious Ukrainian team at the 2004 Olympiad in Calvia, Spain. (1) source: http://www.jewsinsports.org/

page 1 of 96; games 1-25 of 2,398  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. V Tukmakov vs V Faibisovich   1-0 58 1962 URS-chT B35 Sicilian, Accelerated Fianchetto, Modern Variation with Bc4 2. A Kapengut vs V Tukmakov 1-0 20 1962 URS-chT B07 Pirc 3. V Tukmakov vs M Ankerst   ½-½ 40 1962 URS-JUG2 B97 Sicilian, Najdorf 4. M Ankerst vs V Tukmakov   ½-½ 47 1962 URS-JUG2 C47 Four Knights 5. V Tukmakov vs A Butnorius   ½-½ 61 1962 URS-chT C75 Ruy Lopez, Modern Steinitz Defense 6. A Dubinsky vs V Tukmakov   ½-½ 15 1962 URS-chT C81 Ruy Lopez, Open, Howell Attack 7. M Ankerst vs V Tukmakov   0-1 29 1962 URS-JUG2 B88 Sicilian, Fischer-Sozin Attack 8. V Tukmakov vs M Klimenok   1-0 41 1962 URS-ch sf B98 Sicilian, Najdorf 9. J I Zilber vs V Tukmakov   1-0 29 1962 URS-ch sf A07 King's Indian Attack 10. V Tukmakov vs A Vooremaa   0-1 40 1962 URS-chT B03 Alekhine's Defense 11. A Zakharov vs V Tukmakov   1-0 24 1962 URS-chT B67 Sicilian, Richter-Rauzer Attack, 7...a6 Defense, 8...Bd7 12. V Tukmakov vs I Nemet   1-0 37 1962 URS-JUG2 A45 Queen's Pawn Game 13. A Vitolinsh vs V Tukmakov 1-0 34 1962 URS-ch sf B66 Sicilian, Richter-Rauzer Attack, 7...a6 14. V Tukmakov vs A Gojhman   0-1 39 1962 URS-chT C74 Ruy Lopez, Modern Steinitz Defense 15. A Vitolinsh vs V Tukmakov   ½-½ 38 1962 URS-chT C77 Ruy Lopez 16. V Tukmakov vs I Nemet   1-0 66 1962 URS-JUG2 B98 Sicilian, Najdorf 17. I Nemet vs V Tukmakov   0-1 37 1962 URS-JUG2 B09 Pirc, Austrian Attack 18. A Zakharov vs V Tukmakov   1-0 28 1963 URS A68 Benoni, Four Pawns Attack 19. V Tukmakov vs Lazarev 0-1 36 1963 UKR-ch B14 Caro-Kann, Panov-Botvinnik Attack 20. N Levin vs V Tukmakov   1-0 24 1963 UKR-ch B09 Pirc, Austrian Attack 21. V Tukmakov vs Kostiuchenko 1-0 44 1963 UKR-ch B14 Caro-Kann, Panov-Botvinnik Attack 22. A Kapengut vs V Tukmakov   0-1 28 1963 URS B51 Sicilian, Canal-Sokolsky (Rossolimo) Attack 23. V Tukmakov vs B Kogan   ½-½ 41 1963 UKR-ch B14 Caro-Kann, Panov-Botvinnik Attack 24. Zamikhovsky vs V Tukmakov   0-1 51 1963 UKR-ch E84 King's Indian, Samisch, Panno Main line 25. V Shiyanovsky vs V Tukmakov   1-0 72 1963 UKR-ch B68 Sicilian, Richter-Rauzer Attack, 7...a6 Defense, 9...Be7  page 1 of 96; games 1-25 of 2,398    REFINE SEARCH:   White wins (1-0) | Black wins (0-1) | Draws (1/2-1/2) | Tukmakov wins | Tukmakov loses

Feb-28-05    WTHarvey: Here are a few puzzles from Vladimir's early games not given here: http://www.wtharvey.com/tukm.html Feb-28-05    Greginctw: do you compile all those puzzles? If so thanks for doing that. Mar-01-05    Albertan: An interesting story concerning Tukmakov is this. He played in the Canadian Open in Edmonton back at the beginning of the 90's. After a few rounds as he notched win after win he began playing the higher-rated Canadian players in the event. Apparently all the top-rated Canadians had planned their openings together:they chose to play the Queen's Gambit. In response Tukmakov chose to play the Blumenfield Counter-Gambit:Opening Explorer After that game, all the top Canadians played the Blumenfeld against Tukmakov.However GM Tukmakov knew the opening better as he won all the games he played a White (except one in which he gave up a draw to Canadian Deen Hergott) Deen Hergott Tukmakov was interviewed in 2000.The interview can be read at: http://members.lycos.co.uk/csarchiv... Tukmakov served as captain of the winning Ukrainian Men's team at the 36th Chess Olympiad: http://www.thechessdrum.net/tournam... Tukmakov talks about the Kramnik-Kasparov match and other chess matters in an interview at: http://members.lycos.co.uk/csarchive/ Vladimir Tukmakov is one of the greatest players of all time at refuting an unsound attack. He certainly proves it here. Have a look at Sax- Tukmakov: Sax vs V Tukmakov, 2001 Tukmakov participated in 13 USSR championships between 1967 and 1987, scoring approximately 50%, and coming in second in 1970 and 1983. In 1984 he played on the USSR Olympic team. Tukamkov is one of the few trainers in the chess world with a certification from the FIDE: http://www.jovanpetronic.com/fidetr... Jan-03-06    LancelotduLac: Tukmakov's deep positional understanding made him a serious force to be reckoned with in mid to late 70s. He went on to become an even more impressive coach than he was competitor, now serving as head coach of Ukraine's team, the current Olympic champions. Feb-06-06    chessgames.com: Many thanks to User: Honza Cervenka for providing an enormous number of Tukmakov games to add to our collection. Feb-07-06    Benzol: Once again <Honza> we're indebted to you. Many thanks for your on going contributions. :) Feb-07-06    ray keene: tukmakov is a high quality player and his games will form a most useful study resource here! Mar-15-06    BIDMONFA: Vladimir Borisovich Tukmakov TUKMAKOV, Vladimir B. http://www.bidmonfa.com/tukmakov_vl... _ Mar-15-07    Laskerfan82: Glad to see him as player of the day. I will always remember how my former coach IM Ilya Botvinnik spoke with great reverence about Tukmakov. To translate one of his comments (our lessons were in Hebrew): "Tukmakov was a very strong Grandmaster. VERY strong." Analyzing Tukmakov's games games is rewarding for the aspiring student. Many of them are strategically rich. His best games are from the late 1970s through the mid 1980s. Mar-15-08    brankat: Happy Birthday Vladimir Borisovich! Mar-15-09    brankat: Happy Birthday Vladimir!

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