Evgeny Mochalov

Evgeny Mochalov
Country	Soviet Union Belarus
Born	(1951-10-29) 29 October 1951 (age 73)
Title	International Master (1993)
Peak rating	2515 (January 1996)

Evgeny Mochalov (Russian: Евгений Вениаминович Мочалов; born 29 October 1951) is a Belarusian chess International Master (1993), two-times Belarusian Chess Championship winner (1974, 1991).

Chess career

Evgeny Mochalov competed many times in the individual finals of the Belarusian Chess Championship, winning gold medals in 1974[1] and 1991 (together with Viacheslav Dydyshko), and silver medals - in 1988[2] and 1996. In 1979, in Moscow he won silver medal in Soviet Team Chess Championship for sixth board result.[3]

His international chess tournaments successes include:

• won 1st place in Šaľa (1993),
• shared 2nd place in Bratislava (1993, after Vitali Golod, together with, among others, Konstantin Chernyshov),
• won 1st place in Polanica-Zdrój (1994, Akiba Rubinstein Memorial, Swiss-system tournament),
• won 1st place in Baku (1995),
• shared 3rd place in Kyiv (1995, Igor Platonov Memorial, after Dimitri Komarov, jointly with Stanislav Savchenko),
• ranked 3rd place in Oryol (1999, after Alexander Moiseenko).

Evgeny Mochalov played for Belarus in the Chess Olympiads:[4]

• In 1996, at second reserve board in the 32nd Chess Olympiad in Yerevan (+2, =4, -2).

Evgeny Mochalov played for Belarus in the European Team Chess Championships:[5]

• In 1992, at reserve board in the 10th European Team Chess Championship in Debrecen (+0, =4, -2).

In 2012, he won a bronze medal in the European Senior Chess Championship (chess players over 60 years of age) in Kaunas.

Evgeny Mochalov achieved the highest rating in his career on January 1, 1996, with a score of 2515 points, he was 6th among Belarusian chess players.[6]

References

1. Championship of Belarus 1974
2. Championship of Belarus Minsk 1988
3. OlimpBase :: 14th Soviet Team Chess Championship, Moscow 1979, Belorussian SSR
4. "OlimpBase :: Men's Chess Olympiads :: Evgeny Mochalov". www.olimpbase.org.
5. "OlimpBase :: European Men's Team Chess Championship :: Evgeny Mochalov". www.olimpbase.org.
6. FIDE rating history :: Mochalov, Evgeny V.

External links

• Evgeny Mochalov rating card at FIDE
• Evgeny Mochalov player profile and games at Chessgames.com
• Evgeny V Mochalov chess games at 365Chess.com