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Vitali Golod

Vitali Golod is a Soviet-born Israeli chess grandmaster who won the Israeli championship in 2010.

born 1971Chess grandmaster title2010 Israeli chess championship1991 Ukrainian chess championship

Born: 23 June 1971, Lviv
Occupation: chess player
Education: Lviv State University of Physical Culture

Vitali Golod was born in 1971 in Lviv

Vitali Golod was born on 23 June 1971 in Lviv, then part of the Soviet Union. In 1991 he won the last championship of Soviet Ukraine.

In 1995 he moved to Israel with his wife. They settled in Beersheba and had 2 daughters. FIDE gave him the Grandmaster title in 1996.

He tied for first with Sergey Erenburg in the 2004 Israeli championship. In 2006 he won a FIDE invitational tournament in Schaumburg, Illinois, and shared third place at the Isle of Man tournament. The next year he tied for first at Isle of Man and placed second on tiebreak.

In 2010 he won the Israeli championship and coached the Israeli women's team at the Chess Olympiad. He finished second at the 2013 Maccabiah. He coaches at Etude, a chess association in the Gush Dan area.