Yuri Kruppa

Yuri Kruppa
Personal information
Born (1964-06-21) June 21, 1964
Lviv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Chess career
CountryUkraine
TitleGrandmaster (1995)
FIDE rating2572 (August 2026)
Peak rating2603 (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

  1. ↑ "GM Andrei Volokitin is the 2015 Ukraine Chess Champion". December 14, 2015.
  2. ↑ "Cappelle-la-Grande Open".
  3. ↑ "About of club".
  4. ↑ "Chess Training For Candidate Masters Accelerate Your Progress by Thinking For Yourself by Kalinin, Alexander".
  5. ↑ "2000".
  6. ↑ Doggers, Peter (August 31, 2011). "They're coming".
  7. ↑ "Lviv State University of Physical Culture".