Then in just two years he was promoted to the forefront of Bulgarian chess players.

During this period Vladimir Petkov achieved a number of successes, including won in Aschach an der Donau (2004), Veliko Tarnovo (2005) and Zadar (2005), finished 4th in Bulgarian Chess Championship (Pleven, 2005).

In 2010, Vladimir Petkov won international chess tournament in Cesenatico.

[3] Vladimir Petkov played for Bulgaria in the Chess Olympiad:[4] Vladimir Petkov played for Bulgaria in the European Team Chess Championship:[5] He was awarded the FIDE International Master (IM) title in 2004 and the FIDE Grandmaster (GM) title in 2007.

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