Yuri Yakovich is a Russia

Russia

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n chess Grandmaster (1990). He was a member of the silver medal winning Russian team at the 1997 European Team Chess Championship.

In 2003 he tied for 1st-3rd with Evgenij Miroshnichenko

Evgenij Miroshnichenko

Evgenij Miroshnichenko , or "Miro", as he likes to be called, is a Ukrainian chess Grandmaster.In 2003 and 2008 he won the Ukrainian Chess Championship. In 2003 he tied for 1st-3rd with Yuri Yakovich and Alexander Potapov in the Fakel Jamala tournament in Noyabrsk...

 and Alexander Potapov in the Fakel Jamala tournament in Noyabrsk

Noyabrsk

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. In 2007, he tied for 1st-6th with Vitali Golod

Vitali Golod

Vitali Golod is a Soviet–Israeli chess grandmaster.As of April 2007, his Elo rating was 2597, making him the # 7 player in Israel and the 152nd-highest rated player in the world. It is his peak rating so far.-Chess career:...

, Mateusz Bartel

Mateusz Bartel

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, 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...

, Michael Roiz

Michael Roiz

Michael Roiz is an Israeli chess Grandmaster.He learned to play chess at the age of 7. At the age of 9, he finished 2nd in the national championship under-10 category...

 and Zahar Efimenko

Zahar Efimenko

Zahar Efimenko is a Ukrainian chess player. He has been a grandmaster since 2002.-Chess career:In 1999 Efimenko won the U-14 World Youth Chess Championship in Oropesa del Mar, Spain. In the same year he was a member of the Ukrainian national youth team, which won the U-16 Chess Olympiad in Artek,...

 in the 16th Monarch Assurance Isle of Man

Isle of Man

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 International tournament.

Yakovich is the author of the books Play the 4 f3 Nimzo-Indian, published by Gambit Publications

Gambit Publications

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 in 2004 and Sicilian Attacks, published by New In Chess

New In Chess

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 in 2010.

Notable games

• Yuri Yakovich vs Vladimir Kramnik, USSR 1988, Sicilian Defense: Four Knights. Exchange Variation (B40), 1-0
• Yuri Yakovich vs David Bronstein, It (open) 1994, Queen's Gambit Accepted: Classical Defense (D26), 1-0
• Yuri Yakovich vs Magnus Carlsen, Bergen 2002, Queen's Indian Defense: Kasparov-Petrosian Variation (E12), 1-0

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