Yuri Kruppa
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | June 21, 1964 Lviv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Chess career | |
| Country | Ukraine |
| Title | Grandmaster (1995) |
| FIDE rating | 2572 (December 2025) |
| Peak rating | 2603 (July 1999) |
Yuri Nikolaevich Kruppa is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster.
Chess career
He won the Ukrainian Chess Championship in 1994 and earned the Grandmaster title in 1995.[1]
In 1997, he tied for first place with Vladimir Burmakin, Vladimir Baklan, Ľubomír Ftáčnik, Jean-Marc Degraeve, Alexey Vyzmanavin, Tony Miles, Rustam Kasimdzhanov, Mark Hebden, and Darius Ruželė in the Cappelle-la-Grande Open tournament.[2]
He served as a coach in the A.V.Momot Chess Club, which opened in 1999.[3] He also served as a trainer of the Ukrainian team.[4]
In 2000, he won the Cappelle-la-Grande Open tournament, beating Gilberto Milos on tiebreak scores.[5]
In August 2011, he finished as the runner-up in the Nabokov Memorial.[6]
Personal life
He graduated from the Lviv State University of Physical Culture.[7]
References
- ^ "GM Andrei Volokitin is the 2015 Ukraine Chess Champion". December 14, 2015.
- ^ "Cappelle-la-Grande Open".
- ^ "About of club".
- ^ "Chess Training For Candidate Masters Accelerate Your Progress by Thinking For Yourself by Kalinin, Alexander".
- ^ "2000".
- ^ Doggers, Peter (August 31, 2011). "They're coming".
- ^ "Lviv State University of Physical Culture".