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Full name
  
YUrii Yakovich

Role
  
Author

Name
  
Yuri Yakovich


Title
  
Grandmaster

Country
  
Russia

FIDE rating
  
2521

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Born
  
November 30, 1962 (age 61) Kuybyshev (
1962-11-30
)

Books
  
Sicilian Attacks: Powerful, Play the 4 F3 Nimzo‑Indian, The Complete Sveshnik

Yuri Yakovich (Russian: Юрий Якович; born November 30, 1962) is a Russian chess Grandmaster (1990). He was a member of the silver medal winning Russian team at the 1997 European Team Chess Championship.

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In 2003 he tied for 1st–3rd with Evgenij Miroshnichenko and Alexander Potapov in the Fakel Jamala tournament in Noyabrsk. In 2007, he tied for 1st–6th with Vitali Golod, Mateusz Bartel, Mikhail Kobalia, Michael Roiz and Zahar Efimenko in the 16th Monarch Assurance Isle of Man International tournament.

Yuri Yakovich The Complete Sveshnikov Sicilian Yuri Yakovich 9781901983715

Yakovich is the author of the books Play the 4 f3 Nimzo-Indian, published by Gambit Publications in 2004 and Sicilian Attacks, published by New In Chess in 2010.

Notable games

  • Yuri Yakovich vs Vladimir Kramnik, USSR 1988, Sicilian Defense: Four Knights. Exchange Variation (B40), 1-0
  • Yuri Yakovich vs David Bronstein, It (open) 1994, Queen's Gambit Accepted: Classical Defense (D26), 1-0
  • Yuri Yakovich vs Magnus Carlsen, Bergen 2002, Queen's Indian Defense: Kasparov-Petrosian Variation (E12), 1-0

    • References

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