Name Ilya Gurevich | Role Chess master | |
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Ilya Gurevich (born February 8, 1972 in Kiev) is a Soviet-born American chess grandmaster.
He became a chess master at 12 years, 3 months. He was a student at Yeshiva Academy in Worcester, Massachusetts.
In 1983, he won the U.S. National Scholastic Elementary School Chess Championship; the following year, at twelve, he won the world under-14 championship in Lomas de Zamora, Argentina.
He won the 1990 World Junior Championship as an 18-year-old. He tied for first place with Alexei Shirov and was awarded the win because of his superior tiebreak points.
He later became an options trader.
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