Vladimir Tukmakov

Who is Vladimir Tukmakov?

Vladimir Borisovich Tukmakov is a Jewish-Ukrainian chess grandmaster. He gained the Grandmaster title in 1972.

His career first blossomed when he helped and then led the USSR to consecutive wins of the World Student Team Championship from 1966 to 1972, bagging nine gold medals along the way.

In the 1970s and 1980s he progressed to the senior Soviet Russian team and was again on the multiple gold medal winning trail. In his only Olympiad appearance in 1984 he took team gold and in 1973, 1983 and 1989 he played in the European Team Chess Championship, where his collective haul was an amazing 5 gold medals.

In international tournaments, his best results include second place at Buenos Aires 1970, 2nd at Madrid 1973, 1st= at Amsterdam 1974, 1st at Decin 1977, 1st= at Las Palmas 1978, 1st at Vilnius 1978 and 1st at Malta 1980. At Yerevan 1982, he was 2nd, at Tilburg 1984, 2nd=. He won the Reggio Emilia tournament 1987/88 and at Amsterdam 1990, shared first place with Judit Polgár. He won the Canadian Open Chess Championship in 1989 and 1994.