Yuriy Kryvoruchko | |
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 Kryvoruchko in 2022 | |
| Full name | Юрій Григорович Криворучко |
| Country | Ukraine |
| Born | (1986-12-19)19 December 1986 (age 38) Lviv,Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Title | Grandmaster (2006) |
| FIDE rating | 2633 (March 2025) |
| Peak rating | 2717 (November 2015) |
| Peak ranking | No. 33 (May 2017) |
Yuriy Hryhorovych Kryvoruchko (Ukrainian:Юрій Григорович Криворучко; born 19 December 1986) is a Ukrainianchess player. He was awarded the title ofGrandmaster byFIDE in 2006. Kryvoruchko wasUkrainian champion in 2013.[1] He competed in theFIDE World Cup in2009 and2013.
Born inLviv, Kryvoruchko was 5 years old when he was taught how to play chess by his father. He entered his first tournaments at age 7.[2] He came third in the 2004European Youth Chess Championship inÜrgüp and in the 2006World Junior Chess Championship inYerevan.[3] In 2008 he tied for 1st–8th places withVugar Gashimov,David Arutinian,Sergey Fedorchuk,Konstantin Chernyshov,Andrei Deviatkin,Vasilios Kotronias andErwin L'Ami in theCappelle-la-Grande Open tournament.[4] In 2009 he was a member of thebronze medal-winning Ukrainian team at theEuropean Team Chess Championship[5] and tied for 1st–4th withHedinn Steingrimsson,Hannes Stefánsson andMihail Marin in the Reykjavik Open tournament.[6] In 2010, he tied for 1st–6th withMircea Pârligras,Gabriel Sargissian,Sergey Volkov,Bela Khotenashvili andVladislav Borovikov in 2nd International Tournament inRethymno[7] and tied for 1st–3rd withDmitry Svetushkin andAlexander Zubarev atPalaiochora.[8] In 2013 Kryvoruchko won theUkrainian championship edging outRuslan Ponomariov on tiebreak, after both finished on a score of 7½/11 points.[9][10]
In 2008 he graduated from Lviv University's Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanical Engineering.[citation needed]
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