Andrei Maksimenko

Andrei Maksimenko is a Ukrainian chess Grandmaster.

Chess career

Andrei Maksimenko achieved his first successes in the early 1990s. With the Ukrainian SSR national team, he won the 19th Soviet Team Chess Championship. He also received a gold medal in the individual classification, showing the best result on the 6th board. In 1992, he took 4th place in the Ukrainian Chess Championship in Simferopol. In 1993 Andrei Maksimenko took the 1st place in Lublin, and in 1994 he took the 2nd-3rd place in Cattolica. In 1995, he achieved further successes: he single-handedly won the round-robin tournament in Aalborg, took 2nd place in a strong competition in Copenhagen and triumphed in Lviv. In 1996 Andrei Maksimenko won the Schöneck, in 1997 he shared the 1st place in the Emanuel Lasker memorial in Barlinek, in 1999 he took the 2nd place in Lviv, and a year later in this city he took the 1st place. In 2001 Andrei Maksimenko won in Milan and took 1st place in the next tournament held in Lviv. In 2002, he shared the 1st place in Legnica, and a year later he repeated this achievement in Bratto. In 2004, he single-handedly won in two round-robin tournaments held in Poland: in Nowy Targ and in Barlinek, while in 2006 he was among the winners of the traditional tournament in Görlitz. In 2009, Andrei Maksimenko took the 2nd place in Berlin, and in 2013 he won in the tournament for the Cup of the Lower Silesian Voivode in Legnica.
The highest rating in his career Andrei Maksimenko was reached on November 1, 2011, when he took 33rd place among Ukrainian chess players with a score of 2559 points.
In 1991, Andrei Maksimenko was awarded the FIDE International Master title and received the FIDE Grandmaster title four years later.