Vadim Malakhatko
Vadim Volodymyrovych Malakhatko was a Ukrainian chess grandmaster. He was a member of the gold medal-winning Ukrainian team at the 2001 World Team Chess Championship. In 2000, he won with the Ukrainian team a bronze medal in the 34th Chess Olympiad in Istanbul.
Malakhatko died in Kyiv of a heart attack on 5 June 2023, at the age of 46.
Chess career
- 1999 – came second at Alushta tournament
- 2004 – tied for first with Petar Genov in the 3rd Condom Chess Open
- 2006 – won Politiken Cup in Copenhagen
- 2007 – tied for 2nd–4th with Loek van Wely and Alexei Fedorov in the President's Cup in Baku
- 2007 – tied for 2nd–7th with Kiril Georgiev, Dimitrios Mastrovasilis, Mircea Pârligras, Hristos Banikas and Dmitry Svetushkin in the Acropolis International Chess Tournament
- 2007/08 – tied for first with Nidjat Mamedov and Valeriy Neverov in the Hastings International Chess Congress
- 2009 – came in first at the Arcapita Open in Bahrain
- 2009 – tied for 2nd–3rd with Edvīns Ķeņģis at the Al Saleh 8th International Open in Yemen
- 2009 – tied for 3rd–8th with Anton Filippov, Elshan Moradiabadi, Merab Gagunashvili, Alexander Shabalov and Niaz Murshed in the Ravana Challenge Tournament in Colombo
- 2010 – tied for 1st–3rd with Tigran Gharamian and Deep Sengupta at the 24th Open Pierre and Vacances
- 2011 – won the 8th edition of the Balagna Open in Corsica
- 2019 – tied for 2nd–3rd with Liu Zhaoqi at the 2nd Ferreira do Alentejo Open