Igor Berezovsky

Igor Berezovsky was born in Odessa on 17 May 1971. A player of Ukrainian origin, he was registered with the Russian Chess Federation from 1994 to 1997 and with the German Chess Federation from 1997 to 2014, before switching to Monaco in February 2014. He has held the International Master title since 2001.

In Germany he won the 4th Backnang Open in 1997 and became Baden-Württemberg rapid champion in Schlier in 2002. He played for Stuttgarter Schachfreunde 1879, including in the German Bundesliga from 2001 to 2005, and has also competed in the Ukrainian, French, Swiss and Luxembourg leagues.

Playing board three for Monaco at the 2018 Batumi Olympiad, he scored 5.5/7. His peak FIDE rating is 2445.

Chess runs in the family: his wife Svetlana Berezovska is a two-time Monaco women's champion (2015, 2017), and their daughter Fiorina played for Monaco's women's team at the 2016 Baku Olympiad at the age of nine.