Vadim Milov

Vadim Milov (born 1 August 1972) is a Swiss chess player who received the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM) in 1993.

Born in Ufa,[2] following the collapse of the USSR, he moved to Israel in 1992, before finally settling in Switzerland in 1996.

He played at the traditional GM Invitation tournament of Biel in 1996, co-winning with then reigning FIDE World Chess Champion Anatoly Karpov, ahead of prominent players such as Jaan Ehlvest, who was sole third, Ulf Andersson, Zoltán Almási, Joël Lautier, Lajos Portisch or Tony Miles who was placed last in a field of twelve players.

[3] He also won the Corsica Masters International Rapid 2005 by defeating Viswanathan Anand in the finals.

[4] In 2015 Milov won the Swiss Chess Championship by defeating Alexandra Kosteniuk 1½-½ in a rapid playoff.