French chess player of Ukrainian origin (born 1950)
Vladimir Okhotnik |
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| Full name | Volodymyr Illich Okhotnyk |
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| Country | Soviet Union→Ukraine
France |
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| Born | (1950-02-28) 28 February 1950 (age 74)
Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union |
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| Title | Grandmaster (2011) |
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| Peak rating | 2510 (July 2000) |
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Vladimir Okhotnik (Ukrainian: Володимир Ілліч Охотник, romanized: Volodymyr Illich Okhotnyk; born 28 February 1950) is a French chess player of Ukrainian origin.
In 1979 he won the 44th Ukrainian championship at Dnipropetrovsk. In 2011 he won the World Senior Championship[1] and this achievement automatically earned him the title of Grandmaster. Okhotnik won his second world senior title (in the 65+ category) in 2015.[2]
Tournament results include the following:
In the 1990s he moved to France, taking up French nationality.
Together with Bogdan Lalić, he wrote two chess 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.
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