Yuri Kusubov

Jurij Kusubow, 2015
Association	Ukraine
Born	January 26, 1990 Sychovka
title	International Master (2003) Grand Master (2005)
Current  Elo rating	2643 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating	2699 (December 2017)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Jurij Kusubov ( Ukrainian Юрій Кузубов , at the World Chess Federation FIDE Yuriy Kuzubov ; born January 26, 1990 in Sychovka , Smolensk Oblast ) is a Ukrainian chess master .

When Yuri Kusubov was four months old, the family moved to Kramatorsk , Donetsk Oblast . He comes from the AV Momot Chess Club in Kramatorsk, which has also produced other world-class players such as Ruslan Ponomarjow , Sergei Karjakin , Kateryna Lahno , Oleksandr Areschtschenko and Sachar Jefymenko . When he reached his third grandmaster norm in 2004, at the age of 14 years, 7 months and 12 days, he was the world's second youngest grandmaster after Sergei Karjakin.

At the U14 World Cup in 2004 in Heraklion , he received a silver medal. At the 2005 World Chess Cup he failed in the first round to Oleksandr Mojissejenko . In 2009 he won the international Open in Gurgaon , India, ahead of Alexander Areschtschenko, and in 2011 the Reykjavík Open ahead of Ivan Sokolov . In November 2014 he won the Ukrainian individual championship in Lviv .

Jurij Kusubow played for the Ukrainian national team at the 2005 European Team Championship . In the Austrian 1st Bundesliga he played for Holz Dohr in the 2009/10 season . In Spain he played in 2008 and 2011 for CajaCanarias Santa Cruz, with whom he became champions in 2008 , as well as in 2016 and 2017 for Club Ajedrez Jaime Casas , in Iceland for TB A, in France for Grasse Echecs and in Hungary for DVTK Sport Korlátolt Felelősségű Társaság .

Web links

Commons : Jurij Kusubow  - collection of images

• Replayable chess games by Jurij Kusubow on chessgames.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Profile on chesspage.kiev.ua (Ukrainian)
2. ↑ YAUST - Yet Another Ukrainian Super Talent . Article on chessbase.com from August 31, 2004
3. ↑ Yuriy Kuzubov joins the mini-GM . Article on chessbase.com from September 7, 2004
4. ↑ Jurij Kusubov's results at European Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)