Ilya Gurevich

Ilya Gurevich Ilya Gurevich also ( born February 8, 1972 in Kiev) is an American grandmaster in chess.

Life

Gurevich emigrated as a child in the United States. He won in 1984 at age 13 years, the world championship of under 14 year olds ( U14 ) in Lomas de Zamora ( Argentina). In 1986, he took second place at the U16 World Championships in Argentina Río Gallegos. With 18 years as reigning junior champion of the United States, in 1990 he was in Chile U20 Junior World Champion: the He finished with the Latvians Alexei Shirov tied the first place, both achieved 10.5 points from 13 games, but won due to better fine- rating world title. This success Gurevich received the title of International Master.

The following year he won playing on the second board, with the U.S. team to a silver medal at the U26 World Team Championship - behind the team of the USSR, for among other things the future world chess champion Vladimir Kramnik took.

Ilya Gurevich is internationally schachlich no longer active, his Elo rating is 2586 (as of July 2009).

Publications

  • Larry Christiansen, John Fedorowicz, Ilya Gurevich: On Top of The Chess World. The 1995 World Chess Championship match. Hypermodern Press, San Francisco 1995, ISBN 1-886040-20-6
  • GM Best Game Collection DVD Series: Ilya Gurevich 's Best Games Volume 1 ChessOnDVD. (DVD)
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