Zahar Efimenko
{{short description|Ukrainian chess grandmaster (born 1985)|bot=PearBOT 5}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2021}}
{{Infobox chess player
| name = Zahar Efimenko
| image = Zahar Efimenko 2013.jpg
| country = {{UKR}}
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1985|7|3|df=y}}
| birth_place = Makiivka, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
| title = Grandmaster (2002)
| FideID = 14107201
| peakrating = 2708 (March 2011)
| peakranking = No. 34 (January 2006)
}}
Zahar Oleksandrovych Efimenko ({{Langx|uk|Захар Олександрович Єфименко}}; born 3 July 1985) is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster. He was a member of the gold medal-winning Ukrainian team at the 2010 Chess Olympiad.{{Cite web |url=http://www.chessdom.com/news-2010/chess-olympiad-2010/chess-olympiad-ukraine |title=Ukraine wins Chess Olympiad 2010 (updated) |website=Chessdom |date=3 October 2010 |access-date=2017-08-07}} Efimenko competed in the FIDE World Cup in 2005, 2009 and 2011.
Chess career
In 1999 Efimenko won the U-14 division of the World Youth Chess Championships in Oropesa del Mar, Spain. In the same year he was a member of the Ukrainian national youth team, which won the U-16 Chess Olympiad in Artek, Ukraine.[http://www.olimpbase.org/1999ch/1999ukr.html 5th World Youth U16 Chess Olympiad: Artek 1999]
Efimenko has won several chess tournaments since then, among them the 2001 Stork Young MastersFIDE Online: {{Cite web |url=http://www.fide.com/ratings/trarc.phtml?event16=393&codt=1 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20070806225440/http://www.fide.com/ratings/trarc.phtml?event16=393&codt=1 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2007-08-06 |title=Archive - Tournament report October 2001 |access-date=2008-04-02 |publisher=FIDE}} in Hengelo, Netherlands. In 2005 he tied for 1st–5th with Levon Aronian, Kiril Georgiev, Alexei Shirov and Emil Sutovsky in the Gibraltar Chess Festival.{{cite web |url=https://theweekinchess.com/html/twic535.html#3 |title=The Week in Chess 535: Gibtele.com Masters International |last=Crowther |first=Mark |date=2005-02-07 |publisher=London Chess Center |access-date=26 January 2012 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130420193313/https://theweekinchess.com/html/twic535.html%235#3 |archive-date=20 April 2013 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all}} He became champion of Ukraine in 2006. In 2007, he tied for 1st–6th with Vitali Golod, Mateusz Bartel, Yuri Yakovich, Michael Roiz and Mikhail Kobalia in the 16th Monarch Assurance Isle of Man International tournament.{{Cite web |url=https://theweekinchess.com/html/twic673.html#4 |title=TWIC 673: 16th Monarch Assurance Isle of Man |last=Crowther |first=Mark |date=2007-10-01 |publisher=London Chess Center |access-date=21 May 2010}}
In May 2010, he tied for 1st–2nd with Victor Bologan in the 40th Bosna International Tournament in Sarajevo.{{Cite web |url=http://www.chess.co.uk/twic/chessnews/events/40th-bosna-international-2010 |title=The Week in Chess: 40th Bosna International 2010 |publisher=Chess.co.uk |access-date=16 May 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120401221704/http://www.chess.co.uk/twic/chessnews/events/40th-bosna-international-2010 |archive-date=1 April 2012 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all}} At the 39th Chess Olympiad, held later in the same year in Khanty-Mansiysk, Efimenko won the team gold medal and an individual silver playing board 4. In July 2013, he tied for 1st–4th with Igor Kurnosov, Mikhailo Oleksienko and Avetik Grigoryan in the Masters tournament of the Abu Dhabi Chess Festival.{{Cite news |url=http://en.chessbase.com/post/kurnosov-wins-20th-abu-dhabi-che-festival-2013-100713 |title=Kurnosov wins 20th Abu Dhabi Chess Festival 2013 |date=2013-07-08 |work=Chess News |access-date=2017-08-07}} In 2015, Efimenko tied for 1st–3rd with Andrei Volokitin and Martyn Kravtsiv in the Ukrainian championship in Lviv.{{Cite web |url=http://www.chessdom.com/gm-andrei-volokitin-is-the-2015-ukraine-chess-champion/ |title=GM Andrei Volokitin is the 2015 Ukraine Chess Champion |date=2015-12-14 |website=Chessdom |access-date=2017-08-07}}
Personal life
References
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External links
- {{FIDE}}
- {{Chessgames player|49257}}
- {{365Chess.com player|Zahar_Efimenko}}
- {{OlimpBase player|o4k2y6cf}}
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Category:Ukrainian chess players
Category:World Youth Chess Champions