What is Vladimir Malaniuk?
[[File:Malaniuk Vladimir.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Malaniuk in 2006]] '''Vladimir Pavlovich Malaniuk (Malanyuk)''' ([[Ukraine language|Ukraine]]: Володимир Павлович Маланюк; July 21, 1956 &ndash; July 2, 2017) was a [[Ukraine|Ukrainian]] chess [[Grandmaster (chess)|Grandmaster]]. He was born in [[Arkhangelsk]], Soviet Union. Thought by many to be one of the more colourful characters on the chess circuit, he was known for [[rapid chess]], which was showed at some of the world's most well known 'speed chess' tournaments.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.chess.co.uk/twic/event/fide2001/fide2.html |title=The Week in Chess: FIDE World Chess Championships |access-date=2017-07-04 |archive-date=2012-10-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121017210104/http://www.chess.co.uk/twic/event/fide2001/fide2.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> In 2005, he finished second at the [[Tallinn]] ([[Paul Keres|Keres]] Memorial) rapid event, behind [[Alexey Shirov]] but ahead of such luminaries as [[Anatoly Karpov]] and [[Boris Gelfand]]. Malaniuk died of [[kidney cancer]] in [[Amsterdam]] on July 2, 2017 at the age of 60. ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== *[http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=17628? Malaniuk's games at Chessgames.com] {{DEFAULTSORT:Malaniuk, Vladimir}} [[Category:1956 births]] [[Category:2017 deaths]] [[Category:Ukrainian chess players]] [[Category:Chess grandmasters]] {{sports-bio-stub}}