GM Yuriy Kryvoruchko

Yuriy Kryvoruchko is a Ukrainian grandmaster and the 2013 Ukrainian Chess Champion. That victory came after he defeated GM and former FIDE world champion Ruslan Ponomariov on tiebreaks. The same year, Kryvoruchko made it to the third round of the World Cup after a surprising win against GM Michael Adams in the previous round. Kryvoruchko has spent much of the past decade ranked in the top-50 players in the world (as of March 2021).

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Most Played Openings

White Pieces

Caro-Kann Defense: Advance, Short Variation with 4.Nf3 (34 games)

Sicilian Defense: Open, Najdorf, English Attack (26 games)

Alapin Sicilian Defense (21 games)

Ruy López Opening: Berlin Defense (16 games)

Ruy López Opening: Morphy Defense, Closed, Martinez Variation (14 games)

Black Pieces

Ruy López Opening: Berlin Defense (39 games)

Ruy López Opening: Berlin, Rio Gambit Accepted (19 games)

Catalan Opening: Open Defense, Classical Line (19 games)

Ruy López Opening: Berlin, l'Hermet, Berlin Wall Defense (17 games)

Sicilian Defense: Open, Pelikán and Sveshnikov, Chelyabinsk Variation (14 games)

Games

Players	Result	Moves	Year
Yuriy Kryvoruchko (2650) Jan Krejci (2530)	1-0	46	2024
Yuriy Kryvoruchko (2654) Jergus Pechac (2571)	½-½	38	2024
Yuriy Kryvoruchko (2654) Aleksandar Kovacevic (2482)	½-½	46	2024
Yuriy Kryvoruchko (2656) Miklos Galyas (2467)	1-0	40	2023
Yuriy Kryvoruchko (2697) Matthias Bluebaum (2601)	½-½	23	2023
Yuriy Kryvoruchko (2656) Yannick Pelletier (2514)	½-½	44	2023
Yuriy Kryvoruchko (2656) Timothe Razafindratsima (2459)	½-½	37	2023
Yuriy Kryvoruchko (2656) Mads Andersen (2606)	½-½	51	2023
Yuriy Kryvoruchko (2652) Szymon Gumularz (2576)	½-½	35	2023
Yuriy Kryvoruchko (2674) Rene Stern (2505)	1-0	45	2022

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