Vladimir Burmakin | |
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Full name | Vladimir Burmakin |
Country | Russia |
Born | 6 June 1967 |
Title | Grandmaster (1994) |
FIDE rating | 2518 (April 2017) |
Peak rating | 2627 (July 2009) |
Vladimir Burmakin (born 6 June 1967) is a Russian chess Grandmaster.
In 1994 he came 3rd-5th in the Russian championship at Elista, with Sergei Rublevsky and Vasily Yemelin (Peter Svidler won, Mikhail Ulibin was second).
Burmakin played a great number of tournaments in Europe, winning or being equal first in the following:
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.
He reached his peak Elo rating in July 2009, with 2627 points.