Boris Grachyov is a Russia

Russia

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n chess Grandmaster (2006).

In 1995 he won World Chess U10 Championship

World Youth Chess Championship

The World Youth Chess Championship is a chess competition for girls and boys under the age of 8, 10, 12, 14, 16 and 18.The first predecessor of the youth championship was the Cadet Championship. It started off unofficially in 1974 in France for players under 18. The 1975 and 1976 editions were also...

 in São Lourenço

São Lourenço, Minas Gerais

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. In 2009 came first in the Masters Open Tournament

Biel chess tournament

The first international Biel Chess Festival was held in 1968. A Grandmaster Tournament has taken place since 1977....

 in Biel, tied for 9th–11th with Mikhail Kobalia

Mikhail Kobalia

Mikhail Kobalia is a Russian chess Grandmaster .In 1994 he won European Youth Chess Championship in Guarapuava. In 2001 was clear first in the Chigorin Memorial at St. Petersburg. In 2005 came first in the Masters Open Tournament in Biel...

 and Tomi Nyback

Tomi Nyback

Tomi Nyback is a Finnish chess Grandmaster and poker player.-Chess career:He won the Finnish Championship in 2008. In 2009 he tied for 9th-11th with Mikhail Kobalia and Boris Grachev in the European Individual Chess Championship...

 in the European Individual Chess Championship and won the first Lublin

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 International tournament. In 2010 he tied for 3rd–6th with Alexander Motylev

Alexander Motylev

Alexander Anatolyevich Motylev is an International Grandmaster of chess and a former champion of Russia.He learnt how to play at the age of four and a half years and at age six took part in group instruction sessions. This is not uncommon in Russia where chess is very much part of the school...

, Zhou Jianchao

Zhou Jianchao

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 and Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son

Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son

Nguyễn Ngọc Trường Sơn is a leading Vietnamese chess player. After learning chess at the age of 3, he won the gold medal at the world under 10 championship in 2000. He is Vietnam's youngest Grandmaster ever, and one of the youngest grandmasters in the history of the game...

 in the Aeroflot Open

Aeroflot Open

The Aeroflot Open is an annual open chess tournament played in Moscow and sponsored by the airline Aeroflot. It was established in 2002 and quickly grew to be the strongest open tournament. The first event had around 80 grandmasters, while in the second event 150 grandmasters participated...

. In 2011 he tied for 4th–12th with Vadim Zvjaginsev

Vadim Zvjaginsev

Cifuentes-Parada-Zvjaginsev, Wijk aan Zee Open 1995 1.d4 e6 2.Nf3 d5 3.c4 Nf6 4.Nc3 c6 5.e3 Nbd7 6.Qc2 b6 7.Be2 Bb7 8.O-O Be7 9.Rd1 O-O 10.e4 dxe4 11.Nxe4 Qc7 12.Nc3 c5 13.d5 exd5 14.cxd5 a6 15.Nh4 g6 16.Bh6 Rfe8 17.Qd2 Bd6 18.g3 b5 19.Bf3 b4 20.Ne2 Ne4 21.Qc2 Ndf6 22.Ng2 Qd7 23.Ne3 Rad8 24.Bg2? ...

, Sergey Volkov, Ernesto Inarkiev

Ernesto Inarkiev

Ernesto Inarkiev is a Russian chess Grandmaster. He was named after Ernesto "Che" Guevara. In 2006 he came third in the 59th Russian Chess Championship Superfinal....

, Sanan Sjugirov, Evgeny Tomashevsky

Evgeny Tomashevsky

Evgeny Tomashevsky is a Russian chess Grandmaster. In 2001 he won the U18 Russian championship in Rybinsk with 9/10 and in 2004 he became second in the U18 World Youth Chess Championship. In 2007 he became second in the Aeroflot Open....

, Vladimir Fedoseev

Vladimir Fedoseev

Vladimir Fedoseev is a Russian chess grandmaster .In 2010, he tied for 2nd–7th with Alexey Dreev, Ivan Sokolov, Dmitry Andreikin, Alexander Areshchenko and Konstantin Sakaev in the Chigorin Memorial...

, Maxim Matlakov and Sergei Rublevsky

Sergei Rublevsky

Sergei Rublevsky is a Russian chess grandmaster . He won the prestigious Aeroflot Open in 2004, and became the 58th Russian chess champion after winning the Russian Superfinal in Moscow , one point clear from Dmitry Jakovenko and Alexander Morozevich.He finished in the top 10 in the 2005 FIDE...

 in the Higher League of the Russian Chess Championship

Russian Chess Championship

-Imperial Russia:In 1874, Emanuel Schiffers defeated Andrey Chardin in a match held in St. Petersburg with five wins and four losses. Schiffers was considered the first Russian champion until his student, Mikhail Chigorin, defeated him in a match held in St. Petersburg in 1879...

 in Taganrog

Taganrog

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.

Notable games

• Loek Van Wely vs Boris Grachev, Russian Team Championship 2008, Queen's Gambit Declined (D30), 0-1
• Boris Grachev vs Rafael Vaganian, Aeroflot Open 2009, Queen's Gambit Declined: Harrwitz Attack (D37), 1-0

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