Sam Palatnik | |
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| Full name | Semen Oleksandrovych Palatnik |
| Country |  Ukraine  United States |
| Born | March 26, 1950 Odesa, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine) |
| Title | Grandmaster (1978) |
| FIDE rating | 2455 (May 2025) |
| Peak rating | 2520 (July 1992) |
Sam Palatnik (born Semon Alexandrovich Palatnik, [a] March 26, 1950) is a Ukrainian-American chess Grandmaster, born in Odesa. [1]
He won four team and individual gold medals at the 20th World Student Team Chess Championship at Teesside 1974, [2] and 21st World Student Team Championship at Caracas 1976. [3]
Some of his tournament results include 2nd= at Kiev 1978, 3rd at Hradec Kralove 1981, 2nd= at Trnava 1987, 1st at Hradec Kralove 1988 and 1st= at Calicut 1988. He currently resides in Tennessee, USA and plays for the U.S. Chess Federation. [4]
Palatnik was awarded the International Master (IM) title in 1977 and the GM title in 1978. [1] He won the tournaments in Philadelphia ( World Open ) in 1991, Calcutta and Hradec Kralove in 1988. In the 2000s, Palatnik served as a coach for the American and Ukrainian youth teams. In the 2010s, he coached several national teams, including the Indian team.
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