Vitali Golod is a Soviet–Israel

Israel

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i chess grandmaster.

As of April 2007, his Elo rating was 2597, making him the # 7 player in Israel and the 152nd-highest rated player in the world. It is his peak rating so far.

Chess career

In 1988, he tied for 13-14th in Kharkov (UKR-ch).

Golod was Ukrainian Champion

Ukrainian Chess Championship

This is a list of all the winners of the Ukrainian Chess Championship, including those held when Ukraine was a Soviet republic and those held after Ukraine became independent. Players' names listed in parentheses indicate that the player won the tournament but did not receive the title since he...

 in 1991. He then moved to Israel.

In 2002, he tied for 6-8th in Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv

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 (ISR-ch; Ilya Smirin

Ilya Smirin

Ilya Yulievich Smirin is a Soviet-Israeli chess Grandmaster., his Elo rating was 2650, making him the 59th-highest rated player in the world...

, Boris Avrukh

Boris Avrukh

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, and Zvulun Gofshtein won).

In 2004, he tied for 1st-2nd with Sergei Erenburg in Ramat Aviv

Ramat Aviv

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 (ISR-ch). He also won in Santa Monica

Santa Mônica

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.

In 2005, he took 7th in Montreal

Montreal

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 (Victor Mikhalevski

Victor Mikhalevski

Victor Mikhalevski is an Israeli chess grandmaster who lives in Beer Sheva. his Elo rating was 2611, making him the #7 player in Israel and the 171st-highest rated player in the world...

 won).

In 2006, he won in Schaumburg

Schaumburg

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 (GM-B section), and shared 3rd at the Monarch Isle of Man

Isle of Man

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 International (behind Alexander Areshchenko

Alexander Areshchenko

Alexander Areshchenko is a Ukrainian chess Grandmaster and won the Ukrainian Champion in 2005. In 1999, he won the U-14 World Youth Chess Championship in Oropesa del Mar, Spain ahead of future super-grandmaster Wang Yue. In 2007 he tied for 2nd-4th with Hikaru Nakamura and Emil Sutovsky in the 5th...

 and Segey Volkov

Sergey Volkov (chess)

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).

In 2007, he tied for 1st-6th with Mateusz Bartel

Mateusz Bartel

Mateusz Bartel is a Polish chess player who holds the title of International Grandmaster . He won the under-18 European championship in 2003....

, Zahar Efimenko

Zahar Efimenko

Zahar Efimenko is a Ukrainian chess player. He has been a grandmaster since 2002.-Chess career:In 1999 Efimenko won the U-14 World Youth Chess Championship in Oropesa del Mar, Spain. In the same year he was a member of the Ukrainian national youth team, which won the U-16 Chess Olympiad in Artek,...

, Yuri Yakovich

Yuri Yakovich

Yuri Yakovich is a Russian chess Grandmaster . He was a member of the silver medal winning Russian team at the 1997 European Team Chess Championship....

, Michael Roiz

Michael Roiz

Michael Roiz is an Israeli chess Grandmaster.He learned to play chess at the age of 7. At the age of 9, he finished 2nd in the national championship under-10 category...

 and Mikhail Kobalia

Mikhail Kobalia

Mikhail Kobalia is a Russian chess Grandmaster .In 1994 he won European Youth Chess Championship in Guarapuava. In 2001 was clear first in the Chigorin Memorial at St. Petersburg. In 2005 came first in the Masters Open Tournament in Biel...

 in the 16th Monarch Assurance Isle of Man

Isle of Man

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 International tournament.

In 2010, he tied for 1st-4th with grandmasters Maxim Turov

Maxim Turov

Maxim Turov is a Russian chess Grandmaster .In 2005 and 2011 he won the Dutch Open Championship in Dieren. In 2009, came second in Doroshkevich Memorial, first in Eforie Nord, in Nordhausen Open and in Faaker See Open...

, Sergei Zhigalko and Rinat Jumabayev in the IV International Georgy Agzamov

Georgy Agzamov

Georgy Tadzhikhanovich Agzamov was a Soviet chess Grandmaster. He became an International Master in 1982 and was awarded the Grandmaster title in 1984....

 Memorial.

In 2010, he tied for 1st-7th with grandmasters Alexander Riazantsev, Nadezhda Kosintseva, Leonid Kritz, Sebastien Feller

Sebastien Feller

Sebastien Feller is a French-born chess Grandmaster.- Chess career :Feller achieved both his International Master and Grandmaster titles in 2007 at age 17. He won the French Junior Championship 2007 and was vice-champion of the European U16 Championships 2007...

, Christian Bauer, Sebastien Maze in the 43rd Biel MTO.

In 2010 Israeli Champion.

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