Pavel Eljanov

Pavel Eljanov
Full name Павло Володимирович Ельянов
Country Ukraine
Born (1983-05-10) 10 May 1983
Kharkiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Title Grandmaster
FIDE rating 2762 (December 2016)
Peak rating 2765 (March 2016)
Peak ranking No. 6 (September 2010)

Pavel Eljanov (Ukrainian: Павло Володимирович Ельянов, Pavlo Volodymyrovych 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 acted as a second for Boris Gelfand in the World Chess Championship 2007,[2] Candidates Matches 2011[3] and World Chess Championship 2012,[4] for Magnus Carlsen in the World Chess Championship 2013,[5] and for Mariya Muzychuk in the Women's World Chess Championship 2016.[6]

Career

In 1999, he was a member of the Ukrainian national youth team, which won the Under-16 Chess Olympiad in Artek, Ukraine.[7]

Eljanov won the 2007 Corus B tournament in Wijk aan Zee, the Netherlands with a score of 9/13.[8] This result enabled him to qualify for the category 20 tournament Corus A 2008. In the latter he scored 5/13.[9]

He won the 2009 Bosna Chess Tournament, a six-player double round-robin tournament in Sarajevo, with a score of 7/10.[10]

In May 2010, he won the Astrakhan stage of FIDE Grand Prix 2008–2010 scoring 8/13.[11] In August 2010, he won the Politiken Cup in Copenhagen.[12]

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.[13]

In February 2013, Eljanov took first place on tie-break in the strong Reykjavik Open. Later that year, in September, he won the 14th Anatoly Karpov International Tournament, a category 18 round-robin event in Poikovsky, Russia.[14][15] 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.[16] In April 2009 Eljanov married WIM Olena Dvoretska.[17] He has a daughter born in 2011.[18]

Eljanov graduated from the National University “Yaroslav the Wise Law Academy of Ukraine”.[19]

References

  1. ↑ Bartelski, Wojciech. "Men's Chess Olympiads: Pavel Eljanov". OlimpBase. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
  2. ↑ "Boris Gelfand: 'There are not enough places for everyone'". ChessBase. 31 October 2007. Retrieved 24 September 2015.
  3. ↑ "Eljanov Pavel". Chess Network Company. Retrieved 24 September 2015.
  4. ↑ Doggers, Peter (6 June 2012). "Boris Gelfand: "I was by no means inferior in this match" (interview, part 1 of 2)". ChessVibes. Retrieved 24 September 2015.
  5. ↑ Crowther, Mark (2014-11-25). "World Chess Championship closing ceremony: Putin speaks and Carlsen receives his prizes". The Week in Chess. Retrieved 24 November 2015.
  6. ↑ Silver, Albert (2016-03-06). "Women's WCh. G3: Change of tactics, but draw". ChessBase. Retrieved 2016-07-12.
  7. ↑ 5th World Youth U16 Chess Olympiad: Artek 1999 OlimpBase
  8. ↑ "Standings of grandmaster group B 2007". Tata Steel Chess. Retrieved 12 September 2015.
  9. ↑ "Standings of grandmaster group A 2008". Tata Steel Chess. Retrieved 12 September 2015.
  10. ↑ "Bosna Chess Tournament 2009". Chessdom. 2009-05-20. Retrieved 12 September 2015.
  11. ↑ "Eljanov Wins Astrakhan Grand Prix". Chess.com. Retrieved 27 May 2010.
  12. ↑ "Politiken Cup 2010: Eljanov reels it in". ChessBase. 10 August 2010. Retrieved 11 September 2015.
  13. ↑ "Aeroflot Open – Mateusz Bartel comes out on top". ChessBase.com. 2012-02-16. Retrieved 18 February 2012.
  14. ↑ "Poikovsky Final: Eljanov at the top". ChessBase. 6 September 2010. Retrieved 11 September 2015.
  15. ↑ Crowther, Mark. "14th Karpov GM Poikovsky 2013". The Week in Chess. Retrieved 11 September 2015.
  16. ↑ Savinov, Misha (2006-02-14). "The Great Chess Market". ChessBase. Retrieved 2 October 2015.
  17. ↑ Karlovich, Anastasiya (9 November 2009). "New chess family: GM Pavel Eljanov and WIM Olena Dvoretska". ChessBase. Retrieved 24 September 2015.
  18. ↑ Peterson, Macauley (2015-09-27). "Pavel Eljanov, World Cup standout". chess24. Retrieved 2 October 2015.
  19. ↑ Karlovich, Anastasiya (12 July 2010). "Interview with Pavel Eljanov". ChessBase. Retrieved 24 September 2015.


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