Yuriy Kryvoruchko is a Ukrainian chess

Chess

Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...

 Grandmaster (2006).

He came third in the 2004 European Youth Chess Championship

European Youth Chess Championship

Since 1991, the European chess union organises the European Youth Chess Championship in the groups under 10, 12, 14, 16 and 18 year. Until 2002, there was also a tournament for the under 20, see European Junior Chess Championship.-Boys winners:...

 in Ürgüp

Ürgüp

Ürgüp is a town and district of Nevşehir Province in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey. Located in the historical region of Cappadocia, and near the cave Churches of Göreme, it is renowned for its nightlife and for its good adjustment to tourism, making it a popular night stop for Cappadocia...

 and in the 2006 World Junior Chess Championship

World Junior Chess Championship

The World Junior Chess Championship is an under-20 chess tournament organized by the World Chess Federation ....

 in Yerevan

Yerevan

Yerevan is the capital and largest city of Armenia and one of the world's oldest continuously-inhabited cities. Situated along the Hrazdan River, Yerevan is the administrative, cultural, and industrial center of the country...

. In 2008 he tied for 1st–8th with Vugar Gashimov

Vugar Gashimov

Vugar Gashimov , born July 24, 1986 in Baku, is one of the leading chess players from Azerbaijan. He is a noted player of Bullet chess and three times Azerbaijani national chess champion .He won at Athens 2005 ....

, David Arutinian, Sergey Fedorchuk

Sergey Fedorchuk

Sergey Fedorchuk is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster .In 1995 he won European Youth Chess Championship . In 2006 he won at rapid tournament held in Banyoles and tied for 1st-3rd with Gabriel Sargissian and Tigran L. Petrosian in the 8th Dubai Open...

, Konstantin Chernyshov

Konstantin Chernyshov

Konstantin Chernyshov is a Russian chess grandmaster .In 2008 he tied for 1st-8th with Vugar Gashimov, David Arutinian, Yuriy Kryvoruchko, Sergey Fedorchuk, Andrei Deviatkin, Vasilios Kotronias and Erwin L'Ami in the Cappelle-la-Grande Open Tournament...

, Andrei Deviatkin

Andrei Deviatkin

-Chess career:* 2007 - tied for 1st-9th with Alexei Fedorov, Vladimir Potkin, Aleksej Aleksandrov, Viacheslav Zakhartsov, Alexander Evdokimov, Denis Khismatullin, Evgeny Tomashevsky and Sergei Azarov in the Aratovsky Memorial in Saratov;...

, Vasilios Kotronias and Erwin L'Ami

Erwin l'Ami

Erwin l'Ami is a chess Grandmaster. He has emerged, along with Jan Smeets, Daniel Stellwagen and Jan Werle, as one of a new generation of talented young players from the Netherlands.-Early years:...

 in the Cappelle-la-Grande Open

Cappelle-la-Grande Open

The Cappelle-la-Grande Open is a chess tournament held every year in Cappelle-la-Grande, France, since 1985.It has become over the years one of the strongest opens in the world, after the Aeroflot Open of Moscow...

 Tournament. In 2009 he was a member of the bronze medal

Bronze medal

A bronze medal is a medal awarded to the third place finisher of contests such as the Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games, etc. The practice of awarding bronze third place medals began at the 1904 Olympic Games in St...

-winning Ukrainian team at the European Team Chess Championship and tied for 1st–4th with Hedinn Steingrimsson, Hannes Stefansson

Hannes Stefansson

Hannes Hlífar Stefánsson is an Icelandic chess Grandmaster. Stefánsson has won the Icelandic Chess Championship every year since 1998 except for 2000 and 2009 when he didn't participate. His 11 titles make him the record holder for most Championships...

 and Mihail Marin

Mihail Marin

Mihail Marin is a Romanian chess Grandmaster. As of July 2011, his FIDE rating is 2548. Marin's first major success in international chess was in qualifying for the Interzonal in 1987. He has won three Romanian Championships and has played in the Chess Olympiads ten times, winning a bronze...

 in the Reykjavik Open tournament. In 2010, he tied for 1st–6th with Mircea Parligras

Mircea Pârligras

Mircea-Emilian Pârligras is a Romanian chess Grandmaster and Romanian Champion in 2001. As of November 2011, his FIDE rating is 2650, making him the 103rd player in the world....

, Gabriel Sargissian, Sergey Volkov, Bela Khotenashvili and Vladislav Borovikov in 2nd International Chess Tournament in Rethymno

Rethymno

Rethymno is a city of approximately 40,000 people in Greece, the capital of Rethymno peripheral unit in the island of Crete. It was built in antiquity , even though was never a competitive Minoan centre...

 and tied for 1st–3rd with Dmitry Svetushkin

Dmitry Svetushkin

Dmitry Svetushkin is a Moldovan chess grandmaster .He tied for 1st-3rd with Johan Hellsten and Marcin Szymanski in the Ikaros Chess Festival 2003....

 and Alexander Zubarev

Alexander Zubarev

Alexander Zubarev in is a Ukrainian chess Grandmaster .In 2008 he tied for 4-8th with Tamaz Gelashvili, Anton Filippov, Constantin Lupulescu and Nidjat Mamedov in the Open Romgaz Tournament in Bucharest. In 2010 he came first at Ambès and won the 6th Anatoly Ermak Cup in Zaporizhia. In the same...

 at Palaiochora

Palaiochora

Palaiochora is a small town in Chania prefecture. Paleochora is located 77 km south of Chania, on the southwest coast of Crete and occupies a small peninsula 400m wide and 700m long. The town is set along 11 km of coastline bordering the Libyan Sea...

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