MICHELE GODENA (born Jun-30-1967, 58 years old) Italy [what is this?] He achieved the FIDE titles of International Master (IM) in 1988 and Grandmaster (GM) in 1996, following a plus score on board one for Italy at the Chess Olympiad in Yerevan. Godena has won five times the Italian Chess Championship, in 1992, 1993, 1995, 2005 and 2006. He was runner-up in 1990 and 1998. His 2006 victory was closely contested with the then 14-year-old Italian-American prodigy, International Master Fabiano Caruana. Both players finished the contest on 8 points from 11 rounds and Godena triumphed narrowly in the rapid and blitz play-off. He tied for 1st–4th with Andrei Sokolov, Dražen Sermek and Xie Jun at Cannes 1997. At the Aeroflot Open 2006 in Moscow, Godena tied for 1st–12th in the A2 group, finishing 12th on tiebreak with a rating performance of 2628. In June 2007, in Arvier, Godena became the champion of the European Union having tied for 1st–2nd with Serbian Nikola Sedlak, who won the tournament on tie-break, but as a non-European Union citizen, could not be awarded the title. In 2016, Godena won the 4th Francophonie Championship in Menton, France edging out Bassem Amin, Pablo Almagro Llamas and Yannick Gozzoli on tiebreak score. He has played many times for his country's Olympiad team and at Elista in 1998 posted a score of 66.7% playing board two. For many years Italy's strongest player, he recorded his highest ever Elo rating of 2561 in March 2010. Wikipedia article: Michele Godena Last updated: 2022-01-28 00:12:23

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page 1 of 99; games 1-25 of 2,457  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. L Winants vs M Godena   1-0 45 1980 International FRG Youth Championship 1980/81 D41 Queen's Gambit Declined, Semi-Tarrasch 2. M Godena vs J Cox   1-0 42 1980 International FRG Youth Championship 1980/81 C12 French, McCutcheon 3. M Godena vs P Gelpke   1-0 51 1980 International FRG Youth Championship 1980/81 B22 Sicilian, Alapin 4. C Hartman vs M Godena   ½-½ 30 1980 International FRG Youth Championship 1980/81 D32 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch 5. T Kabisch vs M Godena   0-1 30 1980 International FRG Youth Championship 1980/81 C56 Two Knights 6. M Godena vs J Sieglen   ½-½ 33 1980 International FRG Youth Championship 1980/81 B05 Alekhine's Defense, Modern 7. J Graf vs M Godena   ½-½ 41 1980 International FRG Youth Championship 1980/81 D34 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch 8. J Horvath vs M Godena   1-0 41 1980 International FRG Youth Championship 1980/81 C63 Ruy Lopez, Schliemann Defense 9. M Godena vs J Bany   0-1 61 1980 International FRG Youth Championship 1980/81 C02 French, Advance 10. M Godena vs G Bonavoglia   1-0 33 1981 Caorle Open C47 Four Knights 11. V Sandic vs M Godena   ½-½ 36 1981 Caorle Open D34 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch 12. M Godena vs P Ponzetto   ½-½ 19 1981 Caorle Open B00 Uncommon King's Pawn Opening 13. M Godena vs L Gostisa   ½-½ 46 1981 Caorle Open B22 Sicilian, Alapin 14. P Ryman vs M Godena   0-1 41 1981 Caorle Open C63 Ruy Lopez, Schliemann Defense 15. M Trajkovic vs M Godena   1-0 43 1981 Caorle Open C47 Four Knights 16. M Godena vs A Dragasevic   1-0 40 1981 Caorle Open B21 Sicilian, 2.f4 and 2.d4 17. V Radonjanin vs M Godena   1-0 31 1981 Caorle Open A04 Reti Opening 18. M Godena vs M Fornaciari   1-0 52 1981 Caorle Open C02 French, Advance 19. M Godena vs G Castagnetta   1-0 18 1982 Caorle Open B22 Sicilian, Alapin 20. N Jovanovic vs M Godena   1-0 26 1982 Caorle Open A04 Reti Opening 21. M Godena vs V Anceschi   ½-½ 40 1982 Caorle Open C17 French, Winawer, Advance 22. S Martinovic vs M Godena   1-0 32 1982 Caorle Open C55 Two Knights Defense 23. M Godena vs R Tamai   ½-½ 36 1982 Caorle Open C17 French, Winawer, Advance 24. J Bolek vs M Godena   1-0 56 1982 Caorle Open C57 Two Knights 25. M Godena vs S Wagman   ½-½ 25 1982 Caorle Open B22 Sicilian, Alapin  page 1 of 99; games 1-25 of 2,457

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Feb-23-04    zorro: I think Michele is highly underrated. If he had time to train with a strong Gm he could easily go up 2600. What is more he is a fantastic annotator. His column in the italian mag "Torre & Cavallo" is one of the best things ever published in Italy for years. Sep-28-04    Karpova: i agree with you, zorro. i once saw a game of him against julian hodgson. he won with black in impressive style. he defended so well and cold-blooded! doesn't seem to be in the database. Sep-28-04    Karpova: i found the game i referred to ansd sbmitted it. i hope we will find it in here soon Dec-14-04    zorro: <karpova> Thank you for submitting that great game. What a cold blood of him! Mar-08-05    Karpova: i once had the game analyzed by GM shipov. shipov always called godena "the italian machine" Mar-22-05    Karpova: Godena was italian champion in 1993,1994 and 1995 Jul-29-05    Nobis: <karpova> Can you send me that game? thanks (fr.dll@email.it) GO MICHELE Oct-16-05    Karpova: @Nobis Sorry for responding that late. the game is in the database J M Hodgson vs M Godena, 2000 Feb-17-06    Karpova: Great performance by Michele Godena at Aeroflot 2006! He became twelfth in the A2 group with a performance of 2628 Feb-22-06    BIDMONFA: Michele Godena GODENA, Michele http://www.bidmonfa.com/godena_mich... _ Feb-22-06    plimko: Godena was italian champion in 2005 too. Feb-22-06    Prugno: Very nice to see our national chess hero as Player of the Day! Just one thing I would like to add about Godena: his incredible time management. For reasons nobody has ever really understood, he enjoys spending 99% of his thinking time in the opening and early middlegame on very familiar positions. This leaves him with only a few seconds for most of his remaining moves, and yet he manages to play most of them at a near-perfect level (only a few of his rare losses are actually due to time-trouble mistakes), like in Ponomariov vs M Godena, 2003 where he was relying only on the 30-second increment from about move 20 onwards. It's hard to realize how paradoxical this attitude is until you actually witness it, I think. Vai Michele! Feb-23-06    Karpova: <Prugno> this kind of time management could be the cause for him never breaking the 2600 barrier Jan-01-07    plimko: The 66th Italian Championship was held on November 21st-December 4th in Cremona. GM Michele Godena and IM Fabiano Caruana were tied on the first place but Godena won the rapid/blitz playoff. Oct-15-07    Karpova: He'll participate in the International Open of the Fourth Calvia Chess Festival http://www.calviafestival.com/torne... Oct-25-07    Karpova: Great peformance by Godena! http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail... http://www.calviafestival.com/torne... He reached sixth place with 6.5/9 Nov-28-07    HOTDOG: can the webmaster of chessgames.com add this game to the database? [Event "Claude Pecaut mem"] [Site "Taormina"] [Date "2003.11.15"] [Round "4"] [White "Godena,Michele"] [Black "Carlsen,Magnus"] [Result "1/2"] [Eco "B06"] 1.e4 c5 2.c3 d5 3.exd5 Qxd5 4.d4 g6 5.Nf3 Bg7 6.Na3 cxd4 7.Nb5 Na6 8.Be3 Bd7 9.Bxd4 Nf6 10.a4 0-0 11.Be2 Bxb5 12.axb5 Nc5 13.0-0 Rfd8 14.Ra3 Qf5 15.Qb1 Qh5 16.Re1 Ne6 17.Bxa7 Nf4 18.Bf1 Rd5 19.Be3 Rxa3 20.bxa3 Bh6 21.Qb4 Rf5 22.Qxe7 Ng4 23.Qh4 Nxe3 24.fxe3 Nh3+ 25.Qxh3 Qxh3 26.gxh3 Rxf3 27.Bg2 Rxe3 28.Rxe3 Bxe3+ 29.Kf1 b6 30.Ke2 Bc5 31.a4 Kf8 32.Kd3 Ke7 33.Kc4 Kd6 34.Bd5 f6 35.Bg8 h6 36.h4 g5 37.hxg5 hxg5 38.Bh7 Bg1 39.h3 Ke5 40.Kb4 Bc5+ 41.Kc4 Bg1 42.Kb4 Bc5+ 43.Kc4 Bg1 44.Bd3 f5 45.Kb4 Bc5+ 46.Kc4 Bg1 47.Kb4 Bc5+ 48.Kc4 Bg1 1/2 Nov-28-07    WannaBe: <HOTDOG> On the home page, right hand side, lower bottom, there is a link <PGN Upload Utility>. You can submit the/any game from there. Dec-31-10    ketchuplover: He's at Reggio/Emilia 2010 1 loss and 2 draws so far Dec-31-10    ketchuplover: Make that 2 losses. Dec-31-10    Karpova: Huge time trouble today. He was down to a few minutes prior to move 20 already while Gashimov had much more than an hour left. In the final position, Gashimov had 57 min, Godena 3 sec left. This could be observed in the other games also though he came out being a pawn up against Movsesian.

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