Vladimir Burmakin

Vladimir Burmakin
Burmakin in 2010
Country	Soviet Union → Russia
Born	(1967-06-06) 6 June 1967 (age 57) Murmansk, Soviet Union
Title	Grandmaster (1994)
FIDE rating	2435 (January 2025)
Peak rating	2627 (July 2009)

Vladimir Burmakin (born 6 June 1967) is a Russian chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1994.

Chess career

In 1994 he tied for 3rd-5th places in the Russian championship at Elista, with Sergei Rublevsky and Vasily Yemelin (Peter Svidler won, Mikhail Ulibin was second).

Burmakin won or shared first place in several tournaments:

• 1993  – Szeged – Balatonberény – Werfen (repeated in 1996)
• 1994  – Moscow – Graz (repeated in 1997 and 2001)
• 1995  – Chigorin Memorial in Saint Petersburg
• 1997  – Cappelle-la-Grande open (repeated in 2003)
• 1999  – Pula
• 2000  – Seefeld
• 2002  – Geneva – Pardubice – Zurich
• 2003  – Porto San Giorgio (repeated in 2006)
• 2004  – Schwäbisch Gmünd (repeated in 2005, 2006, and 2007) – Bad Wörishofen (repeated in 2006 and 2008) – Benasque
• 2005  – Schwarzach – Dordrecht, "Daniël Noteboom Memorial"
• 2006  – Le Touquet – Béthune (repeated in 2007) – Dos Hermanas
• 2007  – Bratto (repeated in 2008) – Albacete – Salou – Sitges
• 2008  – Benidorm – "BDO Premier" in Haarlem

Burmakin played for Russia in the European Senior Team Chess Championship 2019 in the 50+ division. His team won the gold medal.[1]

Burmakin is an expert of the Caro-Kann defence, playing it almost invariably in his games against 1. e4; against 1. d4 he usually adopts the Chebanenko Variation of the Slav defence.

References

1. "Russian Teams Win European Senior Championship". Chess Federation of Russia. 2019-09-27. Retrieved 2019-09-29.

External links

• Vladimir Burmakin chess games at 365Chess.com
• Vladimir Burmakin player profile and games at Chessgames.com
• Vladimir Burmakin FIDE rating history at OlimpBase.org