Career
As a junior player, he scored very well in international competitions such as the World and European Championships, taking three major medals;
Litochoro 1999, European Youth Chess Championship (under 18) - Silver
Oropesa del March 1999, World Youth Chess Championship (under 18) - Bronze
Rion 2001, European Junior Chess Championship (under 20) - Bronze
At a senior level, he has continued to enjoy success in international tournaments, with outright or shared wins occurring at;
Tel Aviv 1998
Budapest 2002 (First Saturday Tournament, shared with Levente Vajda)
Budapest 2002 (Elekes, shared with Humpy Koneru)
Balatonlelle 2003 (jointly with Mark Bluvshtein)
Budapest 2003 (FST)
Bad Wiessee 2005 (shared with David Baramidze, Aleksander Delchev, Leonid Kritz and others)
Stockholm, Rilton Cup 2005/6 (with Normunds Miezis, Sergey Ivanov, Eduardas Rozentalis and Tomi Nyback)
Metz 2006
Dresden 2006 (jointly with Alexander Graf and Igor Khenkin)
Maalot-Tarshiha 2008 (jointly with Ilya Smirin). Nancy 2010
He was at the second place in the International chess tournament Open Teplice 2015 in Czechoslovakian republic.