Pavel Eljanov
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Full name | Павло Володимирович Ельянов |
Country | Ukraine |
Born | Kharkiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union |
10 May 1983
Title | Grandmaster |
FIDE rating | 2765 (March 2024) |
Peak rating | 2763 (December 2015) |
Peak ranking | No. 6 (September 2010) |
Pavel Eljanov (Ukrainian: Павло Володимирович Ельянов, Pavlo Volodimirovich Eljanov; born 10 May 1983) is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster. He has won two team gold medals and one individual silver medal at the Chess Olympiads.[1]
He was one of Boris Gelfand's seconds in the World Chess Championship 2007,[2] in the Candidates Matches 2011[3] and in the World Chess Championship 2012.[4] Eljanov was one of Magnus Carlsen's seconds in the World Chess Championship 2013.[5]
Career
In 1999, he was a member of the Ukrainian national youth team, which won the Under-16 Chess Olympiad in Artek, Ukraine.[6]
Eljanov won the 2007 Corus B tournament in Wijk aan Zee, the Netherlands with a score of 9/13.[7] This result enabled him to qualify for the category 20 tournament Corus A 2008. In the latter he scored 5/13.[8]
He won the 2009 Bosna Chess Tournament, a six-player double round-robin tournament in Sarajevo, with a score of 7/10.[9]
In May 2010, he won the Astrakhan stage of FIDE Grand Prix 2008–2010 scoring 8/13.[10] In August 2010, he won the Politiken Cup in Copenhagen.[11]
In the September 2010 FIDE World Rankings Eljanov had a rating of 2761, making him number 1 in Ukraine and number 6 in the world.
In February 2012, he tied for 1st–3rd with Mateusz Bartel and Anton Korobov in the 11th Aeroflot Open.[12]
In February 2013, Eljanov took clear first place in the strong Reykjavik Open. Later that year, in September, he won the 14th Karpov Poikovsky International Tournament, a category 18 round-robin, scoring 6/9.[13][14] In the following month he won another strong open tournament, the Chigorin Memorial.
In April 2014, he won the B tournament of the Gashimov Memorial in Şəmkir, Azerbaijan.
Personal life
His father was International Master Vladimir Eljanov.[15] In April 2009 Eljanov married WIM Olena Dvoretska.[16] He has a daughter born in 2011.[17]
Eljanov graduated from the National University “Yaroslav the Wise Law Academy of Ukraine”.[18]
Chess World Cup results
Year | 2005 | 2007 | 2009 | 2011 | 2013 | 2015 |
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Chess World Cup | 2R | 1R | 3R | 1R | 3R | SF |
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External links
- Pavel Eljanov chess games at 365Chess.com
- Pavel Eljanov player profile and games at Chessgames.com
- Interview with Pavel Eljanov at Chessdom.com
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