Yuri Vovk

Yuri Vovk
Yuri Vovk
Full name	Юрій Вовк
Country	Ukraine
Born	11 November 1988 (age 36); Lviv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Title	Grandmaster (2008)
FIDE rating	2534 (November 2024)
Peak rating	2632 (July 2015)

Yuri Vovk (Ukrainian: Юрій Вовк; born 11 November 1988 in Lviv) is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster. He was trained by Vladimir Grabinsky, coach of the Ukrainian youth team.^[1]

Career

In 2007 he was joint winner with Li Chao and G.N. Gopal at the category 12 Lake Sevan round-robin tournament in Martuni, Armenia.^[2] He was awarded the grandmaster title in 2008.

In February 2009 he shared first place in the Cappelle-la-Grande Open in France with Sanan Sjugirov, Parimarjan Negi, Maxim Rodshtein, Sergey Fedorchuk, Eric Hansen, Alexei Fedorov, and Vlad-Cristian Jianu, ahead of 106 Grandmasters and 76 International Masters, scoring 7.5 points out of 9.^[3] In 2013 he finished equal first, placing eighth on tiebreak.^[4]

Other tournament results:

2003: 1st at Ternopil
2004: 2nd at the Ukrainian under-16 championship
2007: wins the under-20 Ukrainian championships; = 1st at Liverpool; 2nd at Rochefort
2008: 1st at Szombathely; 2nd at Lviv
2011: 1st–3rd with Maxim Turov and Vladimir Georgiev in the Dutch Open in Dieren.^[5]
2011: 1st in the Vasylyshyn Memorial.^[6]

Vovk finished fifth at the 2015 European Individual Chess Championship in Jerusalem, scoring 7.5/11.^[7] This result enabled him to qualify for the Chess World Cup 2015, where he knocked out Ray Robson in the first round. In round two he was eliminated by Wei Yi in the blitz tiebreak games.

He is the older brother of Andrey Vovk.

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^ Crowther, Mark (16 July 2007). "TWIC 662: Lake Sevan". The Week in Chess. Retrieved 1 October 2015.
^ Chessbase: Yuri Vovk wins 25th Cappelle-la-Grande
^ "29th Cappelle-La-Grande Open: Sjugirov edges out pack". ChessBase. 4 March 2013. Retrieved 30 September 2015.
^ "FIDE Archive. Tournament report September 2011: Dutch Open". World Chess Federation. Retrieved 17 December 2011.
^ "8th Vasylyshyn Memorial Tournament-GM". Chess-Results.com. 2011-12-07. Retrieved 22 January 2012.
^ "Evgeniy Najer is new European Chess Champion | Chessdom". www.chessdom.com. Archived from the original on 2017-04-29. Retrieved 2015-09-16.