GM Andrei Volokitin

Andrei Volokitin is a Ukrainian grandmaster and two-time national champion. He won silver and bronze medals at the World Chess Championship in the under-12 and under-14 categories, and was part of the gold-medal winning Ukrainian national youth team at the Under-16 Chess Olympiad in 1999.

Two years later, in 2001, Volokitin became a GM at 15 years old. He won his first national title in 2004 and was on the gold-medal winning Ukrainian team at the Chess Olympiad the same year. In March 2013, he reached his peak rating (2725) and world ranking (25).