Sergey Fedorchuk

Sergey Fedorchuk
Country Ukraine
Born (1981-03-14) March 14, 1981
Ukraine
Title Grandmaster
FIDE rating 2615 (December 2016)
Peak rating 2674 (November 2010)

Sergey Fedorchuk (Ukrainian: Сергій Федорчук, Serhiy Fedorchuk; born 14 March 1981) is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster (2002).

In 1995 he won the European under-14 championship. In 2006 he won a rapid tournament held in Banyoles[1] and shared first place with Gabriel Sargissian and Tigran L. Petrosian in the 8th Dubai Open.[2] In 2008 he tied for 1st–8th with Vugar Gashimov, David Arutinian, Yuriy Kryvoruchko, Konstantin Chernyshov, Andrei Deviatkin, Vasilios Kotronias and Erwin L'Ami in the Cappelle-la-Grande Open tournament.[3] In 2009 he tied for 1st–2nd with Murtas Kazhgaleyev in the Paris City Chess Championship[4] and came first at Nantes.[5] He won the Paris Championship of 2012. Fedorchuk tied for 1st–8th with Sanan Sjugirov, Parimarjan Negi, Maxim Rodshtein, Eric Hansen, Vlad-Cristian Jianu, Alexei Fedorov and Yuri Vovk in the 2013 Cappelle-la-Grande Open. In February 2014, Fedorchuk tied for first with Baadur Jobava and Mikhailo Oleksienko, placing second on tiebreak, in the David Bronstein Memorial in Minsk.[6] Soon afterwards he won the 2014 Vladimir Petrov Memorial, a rapid tournament held in Jūrmala, Latvia.[7]

Fedorchuk played for the Ukrainian team on the reserve board in the 2013 European Team Chess Championship.[8]

Notable games

References

  1. ↑ "S. Kasparov at Banyoles Tournament". Armchess.am. 2006-08-29. Retrieved 2 May 2010.
  2. ↑ "Fedorchuk, Sargissian, Petrosian win 8th Dubai Open". ChessBase. 2006-05-10. Retrieved 2 May 2010.
  3. ↑ "GM Vugar Gashimov wins Cappelle la Grande". Chessdom. Retrieved 2 May 2010.
  4. ↑ Mihajlova, Diana (2009-09-02). "Murtas Kazhgaleyev wins Ile-de-France Paris Championship". ChessBase. Retrieved 2 May 2010.
  5. ↑ "Tournament report March 2010: 8 Open de Nantes". World Chess Federation. Retrieved 2 May 2010.
  6. ↑ Ramirez, Alejandro (2014-02-20). "Three winners in Minsk". ChessBase. Retrieved 11 October 2015.
  7. ↑ "Sergey Fedorchuk winner of Vladimir Petrov Memorial 2014". Chessdom. 2014-02-24. Retrieved 9 October 2015.
  8. ↑ Sergei Fedorchuk team chess record at OlimpBase.org


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