Artur Kogan

Artur Kogan was born in 1974 in Chernivtsi

Artur Kogan was born on 29 January 1974 in Chernivtsi, Ukraine. He moved to Israel at the age of 2. As a boy, from 1981 to 1989, he won the town championships of Bat Yam, Holon, Rishon LeZion and Petah Tikva.

In 1989 he won a bronze medal at the World Under-16 Championship. He became an International Master in 1994 and a Grandmaster in 1998. He has won many open tournaments in Europe and beyond, including Ljubljana, the Quebec Open, the Paris Open and the Ashdod Open.

Kogan founded a chess coaching company called Olala. He coached the Italian women's team at the 2006 Olympiad in Turin and was captain and coach of the Italian men's team at the 2010 Olympiad in Khanty-Mansiysk. He also writes for chess magazines, among them ChessBase.

After about 20 years in Israel he lived in France, the Czech Republic, Slovenia and Hungary. He now lives in Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain. He speaks 8 languages and is married to Woman International Master Tatiana Plachkinova, with whom he has 2 children.