Andrei Volokitin

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Andrei Volokitin
Full name Андрій Волокітін
Country Flag of Ukraine Ukraine
Born June 18, 1986 (1986-06-18) (age 21)
Lviv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Title Grandmaster
FIDE rating 2684
(No. 37 on the April 2008 FIDE ratings list)
Peak rating 2685 (January 2005)

Andrei Volokitin (born 18 June 1986 in Lviv) is an Ukrainian chess player and International Grandmaster of Chess.

He was under-12 champion of the world in 1998 and achieved the grandmaster title in 2001, when only 15 years old. In 2004 he entered the top 100 on the FIDE world ranking list, then won the 73rd Ukrainian Championship (2004). As of July 2007, he is ranked number 30 in the world, with a FIDE rating of 2681.

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