Yuriy Kryvoruchko

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Yuriy Kryvoruchko
Full name Юрій Григорович Криворучко
Country Ukraine
Born December 19, 1986
Lviv, Soviet Union
Title Grandmaster
FIDE rating 2700 (May 2015)
(No. 47 in the January 2014 FIDE World Rankings)
Peak rating 2710 (October 2014)

Yuriy Hryhorovych Kryvoruchko (Ukrainian: Юрій Григорович Криворучко; born December 19, 1986 in Lviv) is a Ukrainian chess Grandmaster (2006) and Ukrainian Champion in 2013.[1]

He came third in the 2004 European Youth Chess Championship in Ürgüp and in the 2006 World Junior Chess Championship in Yerevan.[2] 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.[3] In 2009 he was a member of the bronze medal-winning Ukrainian team at the European Team Chess Championship[4] and tied for 1st–4th with Hedinn Steingrimsson, Hannes Stefansson and Mihail Marin in the Reykjavik Open tournament.[5] 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[6] and tied for 1st–3rd with Dmitry Svetushkin and Alexander Zubarev at Palaiochora.[7]

References

  1. ↑ "Ukraine Men's Championship (final) - 2013 July 2013 Ukraine". FIDE. Retrieved 27 November 2014.
  2. ↑ "Shen Yang and Zaven Andriasian World Junior Champions". ChessBase. 2006-10-17. Retrieved 4 May 2010.
  3. ↑ "GM Vugar Gashimov wins Cappelle la Grande". Chessdom. Retrieved 4 May 2010.
  4. ↑ "Novi Sad: Azerbaijan wins Gold – by one rook move". ChessBase. 2009-10-31. Retrieved 4 May 2010.
  5. ↑ "Reykjavik Open 2009 – chess in geothermal splendor". ChessBase. 2009-04-13. Retrieved 14 May 2010.
  6. ↑ "2nd International Chess Tournament of Rethymno". World Chess Federation. Retrieved 24 March 2011.
  7. ↑ "3rd International Chess Tournament of Paleohora". FIDE. Retrieved 11 April 2011.

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