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Full name
  
Михаил Голубев

Role
  
Journalist

Country
  
Ukraine

FIDE rating
  
2489


Title
  
Grandmaster

Peak rating
  
2570

Name
  
Mikhail Golubev

Books
  
The Sicilian Sozin

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Born
  
May 30, 1970 (age 53) Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (
1970-05-30
)

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Mikhail Golubev (born 30 May 1970, Odessa) is a Ukrainian chess Grandmaster (1996), journalist and author.

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Chess career

He played several times in Ukrainian Chess Championship, and shared first place (with Valery Neverov) at Yalta 1996 (declared winner on better tie-breaks). In 2008, he won the Odessa Region Open Championship.

Other successful performances include first place at Karviná 1992-93, first at Bucharest 2002, and first at Béthune 2002.

Chess strength

According to the website Chessmetrics, at his peak in January 1995 Golubev's play was equivalent to a rating of 2598, and he was ranked number 151 in the world. His best single performance was at Biel open, 1995, where he scored 4 of 6 possible points (67%) against 2605-rated opposition, for a performance rating of 2643.

According to the database Mega Database 2009, his best performances were Bethune 2002 (6,5 points on 7 possible and a 2768 performance), Karvina 1992–93 (8 points on 9 possible and a 2691 performance), Yalta 1996 (8,5 points on 11 possible and a 2663 performance) and Berlin 1993 (7 points on 9 possible and a 2662 performance).

In the November 2009 FIDE list, he has an Elo rating of 2492, making him Ukraine's number 71.

Notable games

  • Vlatko Bogdanovski vs Mikhail Golubev, Skopje 1991, King's Indian Defense: Orthodox Variation (A46), 0-1
  • Mikhail Golubev vs Renzo Mantovani, Biel Open 1992, Sicilian Defense: Fischer-Sozin Attack (B87), 1-0
  • Mikhail Golubev vs Emil Sutovsky, Groningen GM open 1993, Sicilian Defense: Exchange Variation (B45), 1-0
  • Mikhail Golubev vs Vladimir Podinic, Lasker Autumn GM 2001, Sicilian Defense: Paulsen (B48), 1-0

    • Books

  • Golubev, Mikhail (1999). Easy Guide to the Dragon. Everyman Chess. ISBN 978-1857442755. 
  • Golubev, Mikhail (2001). The Sicilian Sozin. Gambit Publications. ISBN 978-1901983388. 
  • Golubev, Mikhail (2006). Understanding the King's Indian. Gambit Publications. ISBN 1-904600-31-X. 
  • Golubev, Mikhail (2017). Understanding the Sicilian. Gambit Publications. ISBN 978-1911465102. 

    • Journalism

    Golubev is as much a chess journalist as an author. In addition to being chess observer for the Ukrainian newspaper Komanda and making contributions to ChessBase.com, Chesspro and Chess-News.ru, he has contributed to over a 1000 editions of the online daily chess newspaper Chess Today.

    References

    Mikhail Golubev Wikipedia
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