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Yuri Vovk (Ukrainian: Юрій Вовк; born 11 November 1988 in Lviv) is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster. He was trained by Vladimir Grabinsky, coach of the Ukrainian youth team.
Career
In 2007 he was joint winner with Li Chao and G.N. Gopal at the category 12 Lake Sevan round-robin tournament in Martuni, Armenia.
He was awarded the grandmaster title in 2008.
In February 2009 he shared first place in the Cappelle-la-Grande Open in France with Sanan Sjugirov, Parimarjan Negi, Maxim Rodshtein, Sergey Fedorchuk, Eric Hansen, Alexei Fedorov, and Vlad-Cristian Jianu, ahead of 106 Grandmasters and 76 International Masters, scoring 7.5 points out of 9. In 2013 he finished equal first, placing eighth on tiebreak.
Other tournament results:
2003: 1st at Ternopil
2004: 2nd at the Ukrainian under-16 championship
2007: wins the under-20 Ukrainian championships; = 1st at Liverpool; 2nd at Rochefort
2008: 1st at Szombathely; 2nd at Lviv
2011: 1st–3rd with Maxim Turov and Vladimir Georgiev in the Dutch Open in Dieren.
2011: 1st in the Vasylyshyn Memorial.
Vovk finished fifth at the 2015 European Individual Chess Championship in Jerusalem, scoring 7.5/11. This result enabled him to qualify for the Chess World Cup 2015, where he knocked out Ray Robson in the first round. In round two he was eliminated by Wei Yi in the blitz tiebreak games.
He is the older brother of Andrey Vovk.
References
External links
Yuri Vovk rating card at FIDE
Yuri Vovk player profile and games at Chessgames.com
Yuri Vovk member profile at Chess.com
Yuriy Vovk at Grandcoach.com
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Vladimir Georgiev (pecatur)
- Wei Yi
- Seniman Rakyat Rusia
- Invasi Ukraina oleh Rusia
- Daftar Pahlawan Uni Soviet (V)
- Yuri Vovk
- Vovk
- Andrey Vovk
- Wei Yi
- Chess World Cup 2015
- List of chess families
- Marc Esserman
- Vladimir Grabinsky
- List of chess players
- Maxim Rodshtein
