Yuriy Kuzubov
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| Country | Ukraine |
| Born |
January 26, 1990 Sychyovka, Smolensk Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Title | Grandmaster |
| FIDE rating | 2643 (March 2017) |
| Peak rating | 2681 (December 2014) |
Yuriy Kuzubov (Ukrainian: Юрій Кузубов; his first name is sometimes spelled "Yuri" or "Yury"; born 26 January 1990 in Sychyovka, Smolensk Oblast) is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster and Ukrainian champion of 2014. He completed his final grandmaster norm at the age of 14 years, 7 months, 12 days in 2004.
Kuzubov won the Ukrainian Under-12 championship in 2001 and in the same year he finished equal first in the European Under-12 championship in Heraklion, placing fourth on additional criteria. In 2002 he won again the Ukrainian Under-12 championship and won the Chigorin Memorial B tournament in Saint Petersburg. Kuzubov was a member of the Ukrainian team that won the silver medal in the Under-16 Chess Olympiads of 2002 and 2003.
In 2004 he won the Harmonie Invitational round-robin tournament in Groningen on tiebreak over Yge Visser, Friso Nijboer and John van der Wiel. In the same year he also won the Ukrainian U14 championship, came second in the World U14 championship in Heraklion, and tied for first with Ildar Khairullin and Sergei Zhigalko, placing third on tiebreak, in the World's Youth Stars tournament in Kirishi. Kuzubov played for the Ukrainian team on the reserve board in the 2005 European Team Chess Championship.
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