GM Vladimir Malakhov
Bio
Vladimir Malakhov is a Russian grandmaster. He won the 2009 European Rapid Chess Championship and won gold with Russia at the 2009 World Team Chess Championship. Also that year, he made it to the semifinals of the Chess World Cup. As a youth player, Malakhov won the Under-12 Russian Championship in 1992 and won the World Under-14 Chess Championship the next year.
For more than 20 years, he's been ranked in the world's top-100 players.