Vladimir Okhotnik

Full name	Volodymir Ilyich Okhotnik (Володимир Ілліч Охотник)
Country	Soviet Union Ukraine France
Born	28 February 1950 Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Title	Grandmaster (2011)
Peak rating	2510 (July 2000)

Vladimir Ilyich Okhotnik (Ukrainian: Володимир Ілліч Охотник; born 28 February 1950) is a French chess grandmaster of Ukrainian origin.

In 1979 he won the 44th Ukrainian Championship at Dnipropetrovsk. In 2011 he became World Senior Champion and this achievement earned him the title of Grandmaster. Okhotnik won his second world senior title (in the 65+ category) in 2015.

He played with RAIKA RAPID Feffernitz team in the first Austrian League 2012.

Tournament results include the following:

• 1984: first at Mezőhegyes
• 1986: equal 2nd at Satu Mare
• 1987: first at Samos; 4th at Halle
• 1988: first at the Cappelle-la-Grande Open
• 2012: equal first at Villach

In the 1990s he moved to France, taking up French citizenship.

Together with Bogdan Lalić, he wrote two books:

• Carpathian Warrior book one. Secrets of a Master, Pandora Press, 2005 (370 pp.), covering the Pirc, the Modern Defense, the Czech and the Philidor
• Carpathian Warrior 2, Pandora Press, 2008, covering lesser known lines vs. the Pirc and the Modern, as well as other Black systems with a king's side fianchetto.