{{short description|Russian chess grandmaster (born 1982)}} {{Infobox chess player |image = Vladimir Potkin 2013.jpg |name = Vladimir Potkin |caption = Vladimir Potkin, Warsaw 2013 |country = Russia |birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1982|6|28|df=y}} |birth_place = |death_date = |death_place = |title = Grandmaster (2001) |peakrating = 2684 (November 2011) |peakranking = No. 52 (May 2011) |FideID = 4131061 }} '''Vladimir Alekseevich Potkin''' ({{langx|ru|Владимир Поткин}}; born 28 June 1982) is a Russian chess grandmaster (2001) and a former European champion. He is also Ian Nepomniachtchi's trainer<ref>{{cite web|title=Vladimir Potkin on chess coaching and cheating|url=http://www.chessintranslation.com/2011/04/vladimir-potkin-on-chess-coaching-and-cheating/|website=Chess in Translation|access-date=25 November 2015|date=2011-04-08}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=McGourty|first1=Colin|title=Baku World Cup, 2.3: Levon Aronian knocked out|url=https://chess24.com/en/read/news/baku-world-cup-2-3-levon-aronian-knocked-out|publisher=chess24|access-date=25 November 2015|date=2015-09-17}}</ref> and one of the coaches of the Russian national team.<ref>{{cite web|title=Motylev and Potkin appointed coaches of Russian national team|url=http://www.chessdom.com/motylev-and-potkin-appointed-coaches-of-russian-national-team/|publisher=Chessdom|date=13 February 2015|access-date=24 November 2015}}</ref>
==Career== Potkin tied for second with Dimitrios Mastrovasilis at the 2000 European Under-18 championship and took the bronze medal on tiebreak.<ref>[http://chess-results.com/tnr638.aspx?lan=1&art=1&turdet=YES&wi=984 Jugend-Europameisterschaft U18 Burschen] Chess-Results</ref> In 2007 he tied for 1st–9th with Alexei Fedorov, Andrei Deviatkin, Aleksej Aleksandrov, Viacheslav Zakhartsov, Alexander Evdokimov, Denis Khismatullin, Evgeny Tomashevsky and Sergei Azarov in the Aratovsky Memorial in Saratov.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ratings.fide.com/tournament_report.phtml?event16=8742|title=Tournament report October 2007: Aratovsky Memorial 2007 open|publisher=FIDE|access-date=3 April 2011}}</ref> In 2009 Poktin finished second in the category 14 Premier group of the 44th Capablanca Memorial in Havana.<ref>[http://chess-results.com/tnr23470.aspx?lan=1&art=1&turdet=YES&wi=821 XLIV CAPABLANCA IN MEMORIAM 2009 - Grupo Premier] Chess-Results</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=2009 Capablanca Memorial (Premier)|url=http://www.chessfocus.com/tournament-results/2009-capablanca-memorial-premier|publisher=ChessFocus|access-date=24 November 2015}}</ref>
In 2011, in Aix-les-Bains, he won the European Individual Chess Championship with a score of 8½/11, edging out on tiebreak Radoslaw Wojtaszek, Judit Polgar and Alexander Moiseenko.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://tournaments.chessdom.com/news-2011/vladimir-potkin-european-champion|title=Vladimir Potkin Becomes European Champion|publisher=Chessdom|access-date=3 April 2011|archive-date=9 April 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110409210829/http://tournaments.chessdom.com/news-2011/vladimir-potkin-european-champion|url-status=dead}}</ref> Later that year he competed in the Chess World Cup 2011, where he reached the fourth round and was eliminated by eventual runner-up Alexander Grischuk.
Potkin tied for first with Sergey Karjakin, Peter Svidler, Dmitry Andreikin, Dmitry Jakovenko and Evgeny Alekseev at the 2012 Russian Championship Superfinal in Moscow, after all players finished on 5/9 points. In the six-player rapid playoff he finished fifth.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Crowther|first1=Mark|title=65th Russian Chess Championships 2012|url=http://www.theweekinchess.com/chessnews/events/65th-russian-chess-championships-2012|publisher=The Week in Chess|access-date=24 November 2015|date=2012-08-13}}</ref>
In 2015, Potkin took part in the Tata Steel Challengers tournament in Wijk aan Zee, where he finished seventh with 7/13.<ref>[http://www.tatasteelchess.com/history/recent/year/2015/standings/2 Standings of Tata Steel Challengers 2015] Tata Steel Chess</ref>
==References== {{reflist|30em}}
==External links== *[http://www.365chess.com/players/Vladimir_Potkin Vladimir Potkin] chess games at 365Chess.com *{{chessgames player|id=49040}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Potkin, Vladimir}} Category:1982 births Category:Living people Category:Chess Grandmasters Category:European Chess Champions Category:National team coaches Category:Place of birth missing (living people) Category:Chess coaches Category:Russian State University of Physical Education, Sport, Youth and Tourism, Department of Chess alumni Category:21st-century Russian chess players