Country Russia Role Chess Player | Peak ranking No. 5 (July 2009) Name Dmitry Jakovenko | |
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Full name Дмитрий Олегович Яковенко Born | ||
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Dmitry Olegovich Jakovenko (Russian: Дмитрий Олегович Яковенко; born 29 June 1983) is a Russian chess grandmaster. He was a member of the gold medal-winning Russian team at the 2009 World Team Chess Championship and at the European Team Chess Championships of 2007 and 2015.
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- Chess career
- Notable chess games
- References
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Chess career
Jakovenko learned chess from his father at the age of three years and was later coached by former Garry Kasparov's trainer Alexander Nikitin. In 2001 he won the Under-18 section of the World Youth Chess Championships and the Saint-Vincent Open.
Jakovenko tied for first place in the Russian Championship Superfinal 2006, but lost the playoff against Evgeny Alekseev, got second place at Pamplona 2006/2007, Corus B Group 2007, and Aeroflot Open 2007. He finished first in the Anatoly Karpov International Tournament (pl) in Poikovsky, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug-Yugra, Russia in 2007 and 2012.
In the July 2009 FIDE World Rankings Jakovenko became the fifth highest rated chess player in the world and overtook Vladimir Kramnik as the number one Russian (Kramnik regained the position in September that year). In the same month Jakovenko competed at the Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting, finishing fourth on tiebreak with Peter Leko and Magnus Carlsen with a score of 5½/10, half a point behind Kramnik.
Jakovenko won the 2012 European Individual Chess Championship in Plovdiv with a score of 8½/11 points. He won the Russian Cup knockout tournament in 2013, 2014 and 2016. In December 2014, Jakovenko took second place, behind Igor Lysyj, in the Superfinal of the 67th Russian championship in Kazan.
Jakovenko tied for first place with Hikaru Nakamura and Fabiano Caruana in the last stage of the FIDE Grand Prix 2014–15, held in Khanty Mansyisk, scoring 6½/11 points. He took first place on tiebreak and placed third in the Grand Prix overall standings with 310 points.