Career
1986: wins, at age 20, the 59th Leningrad championship
1993: wins the colossal Cappelle-la-Grande Open in France (416 players), above 19 GMs and 61 IMs
1998: wins for the second time the championship of his hometown (now called Saint St. Petersburg). Wins the "Heart of Finland" tournament in Jyväskylä
2000: 3rd at the Padova open, after Gennadi Timoshenko and Erald Dervishi. Foreign ChessBase he published the Civil Defense "Opposite-Coloured Bishop Endgames".
