Yuriy Kryvoruchko

Yuriy Kryvoruchko
Full name Юрій Криворучко
Country  Ukraine
Born December 19, 1986 (1986-12-19) (age 25)
Lviv, Soviet Union
Title Grandmaster
FIDE rating 2666
(September 2011)
Peak rating 2666 (September 2011)

Yuriy Kryvoruchko (Ukrainian: Юрій Криворучко; born December 19, 1986 in Lviv) is a Ukrainian chess Grandmaster (2006).

He came third in the 2004 European Youth Chess Championship in Ürgüp and in the 2006 World Junior Chess Championship in Yerevan.[1] In 2008 he tied for 1st–8th with Vugar Gashimov, David Arutinian, Sergey Fedorchuk, Konstantin Chernyshov, Andrei Deviatkin, Vasilios Kotronias and Erwin L'Ami in the Cappelle-la-Grande Open Tournament.[2] In 2009 he was a member of the bronze medal-winning Ukrainian team at the European Team Chess Championship[3] and tied for 1st–4th with Hedinn Steingrimsson, Hannes Stefansson and Mihail Marin in the Reykjavik Open tournament.[4] In 2010, he tied for 1st–6th with Mircea Parligras, Gabriel Sargissian, Sergey Volkov, Bela Khotenashvili and Vladislav Borovikov in 2nd International Chess Tournament in Rethymno[5] and tied for 1st–3rd with Dmitry Svetushkin and Alexander Zubarev at Palaiochora.[6]

References

  1. ^ "Shen Yang and Zaven Andriasian World Junior Champions". ChessBase. 2006-10-17. http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=3432. Retrieved 4 May 2010. 
  2. ^ "GM Vugar Gashimov wins Cappelle la Grande". Chessdom. http://tournaments.chessdom.com/cappelle-la-grande. Retrieved 4 May 2010. 
  3. ^ "Novi Sad: Azerbaijan wins Gold – by one rook move". ChessBase. 2009-10-31. http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=5877. Retrieved 4 May 2010. 
  4. ^ "Reykjavik Open 2009 – chess in geothermal splendor". ChessBase. 2009-04-13. http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=5344. Retrieved 14 May 2010. 
  5. ^ "2nd International Chess Tournament of Rethymno". World Chess Federation. http://ratings.fide.com/tournament_report.phtml?event16=52115. Retrieved 24 March 2011. 
  6. ^ "3rd International Chess Tournament of Paleohora". FIDE. http://ratings.fide.com/tournament_report.phtml?event16=52118. Retrieved 11 April 2011. 

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