He played in the Soviet junior championships of 1984,^[1] 1985 (3rd place),^[2] 1986,^[3] 1987,^[4] and 1988 (tied for 1st–2nd with Gata Kamsky).^[5] Ulibin took the silver medal in the World Junior Chess Championship of 1991.^[6]

In 1994, he finished second behind Peter Svidler in the Russian championship at Elista^[7] and played for Russia's second team in the Moscow Chess Olympiad.^[8] His team took he bronze medal.

He won the 1998/1999 Rilton Cup in Stockholm.^[9] In 2001, Ulibin won the Monarch Assurance International tournament at Port Erin, Isle of Man.^[10] In 2002, he won the Masters' tournament of the 12th Abu Dhabi Chess Festival edging out Evgeny Gleizerov and Shukhrat Safin on tiebreak, after all finished on 6½/9 points.^[11]^[12] In 2003, he tied for 3rd–10th with Vladimir Belov, Alexei Kornev, Farrukh Amonatov, Alexey Kim, Alexander Areshchenko, Andrey Shariyazdanov, and Spartak Vysochin in the St. Petersburg 300 Open tournament.^[13] Ulibin came first in the Master Open Tournament in Biel 2007^[14] and in the Zagreb Open in 2010.^[15] In 2011, he won the Central Serbia Championship in Paraćin;^[16] tied for 2nd–6th with Konstantine Shanava, Maxim Turov, Robert Hovhannisyan, and Levon Babujian in the 4th Karen Asrian Memorial tournament in Jermuk;^[17] and came first at Winterthur.^[18]

Chess career

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