Ilya Gurevich

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

Life

Gurevich emigrated to the USA as a child. In 1984, at the age of 13, he won the World Championship for under 14s (U14) in Lomas de Zamora (Argentina). In 1986 he finished second at the U16 World Championships in Río Gallegos, Argentina . At 18, the reigning junior champion of the United States, he was in 1990 in Chile U20 Junior World Champion : He finished together with the Latvian Alexei Shirov tied in first place, both scored 10.5 points out of 13 games, but won due to better fine-rating the World title. Through this success, Gurevich received the title of International Master .

The following year, playing on the second board, he won the silver medal with the US team at the U26 team world championship - behind the team from the USSR, for which the future world chess champion Vladimir Kramnik competed.

Ilya Gurevich's Elo rating is 2586 (as of August 2014), but he is listed as inactive because he has not played a rated game since the North American Open in Las Vegas in December 2000 . This is also the highest rating he has achieved.

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)

Individual evidence

1. ^ New York Times , December 21, 1986
2. ↑ Christopher Lutz : Christopher and Kerstin with great success at the Junior World Championships . JugendSchach Edition 7/1990, pp. 3–7 (report, tables and games).
3. ^ New York Times , September 30, 1990
4. ↑ olimpbase.org

Web links

• Ilya Gurevich at the World Chess Federation FIDE (English)
• Replayable chess games by Ilya Gurevich on chessgames.com (English)