Dmitri Olegowitsch Jakowenko

Dmitri Jakowenko at the Dortmund Chess Days 2009
Association	Russia
Born	June 28, 1983 Nizhnevartovsk
title	International Master (1998) Grand Master (2001)
Current  Elo rating	2684 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating	2760 (January 2009, July 2009)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Dmitri Olegowitsch Jakowenko ( Russian Дмитрий Олегович Яковенко ; born June 28, 1983 in Nizhnevartovsk ) is a Russian grandmaster in chess .

Career

Yakovenko has been playing chess since he was three years old. At the age of seven he reached the first category and at the age of fourteen the title of International Master . In 1999 he won the title of runner-up in the Junior World Championship up to 16 years in Oropesa del Mar , and at the same location in 2001 the Junior World Championship up to 18 years.

In the open tournament in Pardubice in 2002 he reached the shared first place. In 2005 he was the overwhelming winner in Montreal, then won the silver medal at the Championship of Russia. Later he won the shared first place at the championship of Moscow in 2006, then followed the second silver medal at the national championship (Jakowenko was the winner after the fine evaluation, but was defeated in the rapid chess final against Evgeny Alexejew ). At the beginning of 2007 he shared second place in two strong tournaments: Corus B in Wijk aan Zee (behind Pawel Eljanow ) and at the Aeroflot Open in Moscow (behind Yevgeny Alexejew), then he won the Karpov tournament in Poikowski .

Magnus Carlsen - Dmitri Jakowenko Dortmund Chess Days 2009

At the Dortmund Chess Days 2009, which Wladimir Kramnik won, he achieved a shared second place. In 2012 he won the European individual championship in Plovdiv . In March 2013, he was awarded the honorary title of Honored Master of Sports of Russia .

Jakowenko was able to qualify for all events of the World Chess Cup from 2005 to 2013, he was most successful in 2007 and 2009 when he reached the quarter-finals. In 2014/2015 he was nominated for the FIDE Grand Prix .

National team

Yakovenko took part in three Chess Olympiads , in 2008 and 2012 as reserve player of the Russian team, in 2010 on the top board of the third team of Russia. In 2008 and 2012 he achieved the best individual result of any reserve player. He also took part in the World Team Championships in part in 2010 and 2015, where he won the competition in 2010 with the Russian team. Yakovenko also belonged to the Russian squad at the European Team Championships in 2007, 2009 and 2015, winning both the team and the individual standings of the reserve players in 2007 and 2015, while in 2009 he finished second with the team.

societies

Yakovenko won the Russian team championship in 2004, 2005, 2007 and 2009 with Tomsk-400 , and since 2010 he has played for Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk . With Tomsk he also won the European Club Cup in 2005 and 2006 . In the German Federal Chess League he played for SV Mülheim-Nord in the 2007/08 season, and has played for SK Schwäbisch Hall since the 2014/15 season . In Spain he played for Cuna de Dragones Ajoblanco Mérida from 2006 to 2008 , in France for Clichy-Echecs 92 , with whom he became French team champion in 2007 , 2008 , 2013 and 2014 , in China he played for Chengdu Bank in 2012 and for Hangzhou Bank in 2017 .

Game fragment

Dmitri Jakowenko - Vladimir Akopjan
Aeroflot Open, Moscow, February 20, 2007

	a	b	c	d	e	f	G	H
8th									8th
7th									7th
6th									6th
5									5
4th									4th
3									3
2									2
1									1
	a	b	c	d	e	f	G	H

White to move

The rook on b8 is lost, but it sells its hide as dearly as possible.
1. Rb8xc8 Jakowenko
takes the bishop on g7, the intermediate move 1.… Bxd4 would not be good, the rook e8 falls with a check bid.
1.… Re8xc8 2. Bd4xg7
White has one more piece and one advantage, Black has active pieces and a strong passed pawn on b3.
2.… Rc8 – a8 3. Qa1 – d4 f7 – f5 4. Bg7 – h6 Ra8 – a4 5. Qd4 – b2 f5xe4 6. Nf3 – d2
Nd7 – c5 Akopjan's pieces play an active role.
7. Rc1xc5!
Quality sacrifice, Jakowenko returns part of the material.
7.… d6xc5 8. d5 – d6 !!
The d5 pawn, who advances to d6, decides.
8.… Qe7 – f7
taking with queen does not work because of 9. Qg7 # and after 8.… cxd6 comes 9. Qxb3 + and the knight on b6 falls.
9. d6xc7 c5 – c4 10. Qb2 – e5 Ra4 – a8 11. Ng3xe4 Nb6 – d7 12. De5 – d4
Akopjan resigned.

Web links

Commons : Dmitri Jakowenko  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Replayable chess games by Dmitri Olegowitsch Jakowenko on chessgames.com (English)
• Dmitri Olegowitsch Jakowenko at the World Chess Federation FIDE (English)
• Interview with Dmitri Jakowenko ( Memento from February 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 229 kB; English)

References and comments

1. ↑ Biography of Dmitry Jakovenko ( Memento from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ World Youth Championships 1999
3. ↑ Rublevsky wins 58th Russian Championship on chessbase.com (English)
4. ↑ Evgeny Alekseev, 21, wins Russian Superfinal
5. ↑ Standings of grandmaster group B on tatasteelchess.com, accessed on March 25, 2015 (English)
6. ↑ Evgeny Alekseev wins Aeroflot tournament
7. ↑ Jakovenko wins Karpov tournament in 2007
8. ↑ Sparkassen Chess Meeting 2009 in the Dortmund Theater on TeleSchach
9. ↑ Final table ( Memento from April 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF) on the tournament homepage, accessed on April 1, 2012.
10. ↑ Dmitri Jakowenko's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
11. ↑ Dmitri Jakowenko's results at the World Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
12. ↑ Dmitri Jakowenko's results at the European Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
13. ↑ Dmitri Jakowenko's results at Russian team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
14. ↑ Dmitri Jakowenko's results at European Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)
15. ↑ The entire game online for replay (Java applet).