Sergey Volkov (chess player)

Sergey Volkov
Sergey Volkov
Full name	Sergey Viktorovich Volkov
Country	Russia
Born	7 February 1974 (age 50); Saransk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Title	Grandmaster (1998)
FIDE rating	2439 (April 2024)
Peak rating	2659 (July 2007)
Peak ranking	No. 47 (October 2002)

Sergey Viktorovich Volkov (

FIDE World Cup

in 2007.

Career

Volkov won the Chigorin Memorial in 1998 and in the following year, he was joint winner with Alexander Grischuk. He won it again in 2009.

In 2000, Volkov won the

Samara. He tied for second place at the 2002 European Individual Chess Championship in Batumi, eventually placing third behind Bartłomiej Macieja and Mikhail Gurevich on a tie-break. He 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 2008 he won the bronze medal at the European Individual Championship for the second time in his career.

In team events he has twice represented Russia in major tournaments. At the

International Master, he played for Russia 2 team that finished eighth. At the 1999 European Team Chess Championship, he was played board 2 for the first team, which placed fifth.^[5]

For his then club side Mikhail Chigorin of

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

^ "GM Sergey Volkov shines in the 40th Rilton Cup". Chessdom. Archived from the original on 10 April 2019. Retrieved 6 January 2011.
^ "Plovdiv: Playoffs of the European Individual Championships". ChessBase. 4 May 2008. Retrieved 1 October 2015.
^ "12th Dubai Open 2010 July 2010 United Arab Emirates FIDE Chess Tournament report". ratings.fide.com. Retrieved 2021-05-16.
^ "15th Dubai Open Chess Championship". ChessBase. 16 April 2013. Retrieved 1 October 2015.
^ ^a ^b Bartelski, Wojciech. "Volkov, Sergei team chess record". OlimpBase. Retrieved 1 October 2015.

Preceded by Konstantin Sakaev	Russian Chess Champion 2000	Succeeded by Alexander Motylev