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Vladimir Ponfilenok

Vladimir Ponfilenok
Full name
Vladimir Ponfilenok
Born
1959 (age 67)‎
Place of birth
Federation
Russia
Profiles
#
World Ranking
2225
Classical
2220
Rapid

Bio

Most Played Openings

White Pieces
Catalan Opening: Closed (12 games)
Queen's Gambit Declined: Catalan Opening (10 games)
Indian Game: Knights Variation (10 games)
Catalan Opening (8 games)
Slav Defense: Modern, Quiet Variation (7 games)
Black Pieces
French Defense: Tarrasch, Open, Delayed Exchange Variation (21 games)
French Defense: Winawer, Advance, Poisoned Pawn Variation (16 games)
Dutch Defense: Classical, Rubinstein Variation (8 games)
English Opening: Anglo-Dutch Defense (8 games)
Réti Opening: Queen's Gambit Invitation (7 games)

Games

Players Result Moves Year
Valery Skatchkov (2211)
Vladimir Ponfilenok (2316)
0-1 38 2023
Vladimir Ponfilenok (2348)
Adam Shapiyanov (1871)
1-0 51 2019
Vladimir Ponfilenok (2348)
Evgeny Gordon (2030)
1-0 47 2019
Vladimir Ponfilenok (2348)
Roman Volkov (2170)
1-0 40 2019
Vladimir Ponfilenok (2348)
Andrey Zontakh (2485)
0-1 43 2019
Vladimir Ponfilenok (2348)
Andrey Vunder (2027)
½-½ 32 2019
Bogdan Belyakov (2460)
Vladimir Ponfilenok (2346)
1-0 51 2019
Mark Pavlov (2095)
Vladimir Ponfilenok (2348)
1-0 41 2019
Gleb Babanin (2119)
Vladimir Ponfilenok (2348)
1-0 60 2019
Alexander Skvortsov (2092)
Vladimir Ponfilenok (2348)
0-1 46 2019
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