GMAndrei Volokitin

Andrei Volokitin was born in Lviv in 1986 and won world youth silver at under-twelve level in 1998 and bronze at under-fourteen in 1999. He helped Ukraine win the 1999 Under-16 Olympiad and became a GM in 2001. He won the Ukrainian championship in 2004 and 2015. With the national team he earned Olympiad gold in 2004 and bronze in 2012. His individual victories included the 2005 Lausanne Young Masters and the 2012 Donostia event, which used a format with two games played simultaneously. He also won the 2016 Vidmar Memorial. With his trainer Vladimir Grabinsky he wrote Perfect Your Chess, published in 2007.