Tukmakov Vladimir Borisovich (05.03.1946)

Ukrainian Grandmaster (1972). Coach and journalist. Ukraine Champion in 1970. Silver medalist in the 1965 World Youth Championship and 1965 Soviet U20 Champion. Was the winner or equal first in the All-Union Young Masters Tournament in 1967, 1968 and 1970. Fourteen times a participant in the USSR Championships with the best results: Vice Champion in 1970, 1972 and 1983. In 1981 he finished equal fourth, in 1984 shared the   fifth-eighth places. In 1986 he won the first in the USSR League Championship. Participated as a member of the Soviet Team in the Junior Youth World Championships of 1966-69, 1971, 1972, the European Championships of 1973, 1983 and 1989, the Olympiad of 1984 and the match of the USSR vs the Rest of the World in 1984. A participant in the 1993 World Team Championship for Ukraine with the third place. In the middle of the 1970s, he participated in the Interzonals at Leningrad where he was sixteenth and at Las Palmas 1982 where he shared fourth-fifth places. Won or shared first in Amsterdam 1974, Decin 1977, Las Palmas 1978, Vilnius 1978, Valletta 1980, Titograd 1982, Szirak 1985 equal with Pinter, Lugano 1985, Bhilwara 1986, Kuibyshev 1986, Reggio Emilia 1987-88 – his best performance, when he was ahead of Belyavsky and Korchnoi, Amsterdam II in 1990, Lenk Open 2005. Coach of the Ukrainian National Team since 2004. Second to Korchnoi in 1991 and to Karpov in 1998. He is a chess player of the positional style, very competent at the openings.