Mikhail Gurevich (chess player)

Mikhail Gurevich
At the Dresden Olympiad
Full name	Mikhail Naumovich Gurevich
Country	Soviet Union Turkey
Born	(1959-02-22) 22 February 1959 (age 58) Kharkiv, Soviet Union
Title	Grandmaster
FIDE rating	2550 (March 2017) (No. 196 on the November 2011 FIDE ratings list)
Peak rating	2694 (January 2000)

Mikhail Naumovich Gurevich (born 1959) is a Soviet chess player. He was a top ten ranked player from 1989–1991. Gurevich became an International Grandmaster in 1986, and is currently an FIDE arbiter and senior trainer.

Gurevich won the Ukrainian Chess Championship in 1984 and became USSR Champion in 1985, controversially taking the title from co-winners Alexander Chernin and Viktor Gavrikov on tiebreak points' This was after a three-way playoff had been organized and all the game results were draws. He was not allowed to leave the country, however, to participate in the Interzonal, and Gavrikov and Chernin went in his place.

Gurevich was awarded the International Master title in 1985, and became an International Grandmaster in 1986. In 1987 he was first at Moscow ahead of Oleg Romanishin and Sergey Dolmatov. He finished second at Leningrad after Rafael Vaganian, but ahead of Andrei Sokolov and Artur Yusupov.

At his peak, between 1989 and 1991, Gurevich was consistently ranked in the top ten players in the world. He took first at Reggio Emilia 1989, ahead of Vassily Ivanchuk, Jaan Ehlvest and Viswanathan Anand and tied for first at Moscow 1990 with Alexander Khalifman and Evgeny Bareev. His highest world ranking was a tie for fifth place on the January 1990 and January 1991 FIDE rating lists (with ratings of 2645 and 2650 respectively).