Sergey Volkov (chess player)

Sergey Viktorovich Volkov (Russian: Сергей Викторович Волков; born February 7, 1974 in Saransk, Mordovia) is a Russian chess Grandmaster.

Volkov has been in the FIDE world's top 50 list and has enjoyed many tournament successes, including victory at the 2000 Russian Chess Championship in Samara. Also notable were his share of second place at the 2002 European Individual Chess Championship in Batumi (finally placing third behind Bartłomiej Macieja and Mikhail Gurevich on tie-break) and a shared victory at the 2005 Rilton Cup (with Evgeny Gleizerov and Emanuel Berg). In 2010/11, Volkov took a clear first place with 8/9 in the 40th Rilton Cup.^[1]

In team chess he has twice represented Russia in major tournaments. At the 1998 Chess Olympiad while still an International Master and playing for Russia II, he helped the team to eighth place. At the European Team Chess Championship of 1999, he was elevated to play board 2 for the first team, but an overall poor team performance saw them crash out of the medals race in a surprisingly lacklustre display.

For his then club side Mikhail Chigorin of St. Petersburg he contributed to a second place finish in the European Club Cup, held at Neum in 2000. In the process, he earned himself an individual silver medal and an Elo rating performance of 2743. He has also played in the French Nationale first league.

Sergey Volkov became a Grandmaster in 1998 following on from his Olympiad appearance in the same year.

References

• Information translated from the corresponding German Wikipedia article.
• Olimpbase - Olympiads and other Team event information

External links

• Sergey Volkov player profile and games at Chessgames.com