Mikhail Golubev


Mikhail Golubev is a Ukrainian chess Grandmaster, journalist and author.

Chess career

Golubev began playing chess at the age of six and played his first tournament a year later in 1977. He played several times in Ukrainian Chess Championship, and shared first place at Yalta 1996. In 2008, he won the Odessa Region Open Championship.
Other successful performances include first place at Karviná 1992-93, first at Bucharest 2002, and first at Béthune 2002.

Chess strength

According to the website Chessmetrics, at his peak in January 1995 Golubev's play was equivalent to a rating of 2598, and he was ranked number 151 in the world. His best single performance was at Biel open, 1995, where he scored 4 of 6 possible points against 2605-rated opposition, for a performance rating of 2643.
According to the database Mega Database 2009, his best performances were Bethune 2002, Karvina 1992–93, Yalta 1996 and Berlin 1993.
In the November 2009 FIDE list, he has an Elo rating of 2492, making him Ukraine's number 71.

Notable games

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Books

Journalism

Golubev is as much a chess journalist as an author. In addition to being chess observer for the Ukrainian newspaper Komanda and making contributions to ChessBase.com, Chesspro and Chess-News.ru, he has contributed to over a 1000 editions of the online daily chess newspaper Chess Today.