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Title
  
Grandmaster (2011)

Name
  
Vladimir Okhotnik


Role
  
Chess master

FIDE rating
  
2471

Full name
  
Volodymir Ilyich Okhotnik (Volodimir Іllіch Ohotnik)

Country
  
France  Ukraine  Soviet Union

Born
  
28 February 1950 (age 74) Kiev, Ukraine (
1950-02-28
)

Books
  
Carpathian Warrior Opening Series

CHESS. Vladimir Okhotnik Cup on Chess.com. LiveStream. 08/12/2018


Vladimir Ilyich Okhotnik (Ukrainian: Володимир Ілліч Охотник; born 28 February 1950) is a French chess grandmaster of Ukrainian origin.

In 1979 he won the 44th Ukrainian championship at Dnipropetrovsk. Okhotnik took first place in the Cappelle-la-Grande Open 1988. In 2011 he became World Senior Champion and this achievement automatically earned him the title of Grandmaster. Okhotnik won his second world senior title (in the 65+ category) in 2015.

He played with RAIKA RAPID Feffernitz team in the first Austrian League 2012.

Tournament results include the following:

  • 1984: first at Mezőhegyes
  • 1986: equal 2nd at Satu Mare
  • 1987: first at Samos; 4th at Halle
  • 1988: first at the Cappelle-la-Grande Open
  • 2012: equal first at Villach

    • In the 1990s he moved to France, taking up French citizenship.

    Together with Bogdan Lalić, he wrote two books:

  • Carpathian Warrior book one. Secrets of a Master, Pandora Press, 2005 (370 pp.), covering the Pirc, the Modern Defense, the Czech and the Philidor
  • Carpathian Warrior 2, Pandora Press, 2008, covering lesser known lines vs. the Pirc and the Modern, as well as other Black systems with a king's side fianchetto.

    • References

    Vladimir Okhotnik Wikipedia
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