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GM Aleksandr Volodin

Full name

Aleksandr Volodin

Born

1/1/1990 (age 35)‎

Place of birth

Federation

Estonia

Rating

Bio

Most Played Openings

White Pieces

King's Indian Defense: Fianchetto, Yugoslav, Panno System (14 games)

Bogo-Indian Defense: Grünfeld Variation (13 games)

Queen's Indian Defense: Kasparov Variation, Petrosian Variation (11 games)

King's Indian Defense (9 games)

Queen's Gambit Declined: Exchange, Positional Line (9 games)

Black Pieces

Sicilian Defense: Taimanov, Bastrikov Variation (35 games)

Alapin Sicilian Defense (14 games)

Sicilian Defense: Open, Scheveningen, Keres Attack (11 games)

Indian Game: Spielmann-Indian, Pseudo-Benko Variation (10 games)

English Opening: Symmetrical Variation (9 games)

Games

Players	Result	Moves	Year
Aleksandr Volodin (2421) Sten-Andreas Ehrlich (1871)	1-0	39	2025
Aleksandr Volodin (2421) Sofia Blokhin (2163)	1-0	38	2025
Aleksandr Volodin (2421) Aleksei Garanin (2139)	1-0	35	2025
Aleksandr Volodin (2421) Igor Ivanov (2131)	1-0	60	2025
Aleksandr Volodin (2421) Andrei Shiskov	½-½	33	2025
Aleksandr Volodin (2421) Alexander Shabalov (2536)	½-½	54	2025
Aleksandr Volodin Igor Shvyrjov (2217)	1-0	37	2024
Aleksandr Volodin (2445) Jaan Ehlvest (2499)	1-0	45	2024
Aleksandr Volodin (2449) Nicola Mele (1890)	1-0	28	2024
Aleksandr Volodin (2449) Tugrul Turel (2033)	1-0	40	2024

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