The chess games of Yaroslav Zherebukh

Yaroslav Zherebukh
Number of games in database: 208
Years covered: 2006 to 2012
Last FIDE rating: 2614
Highest rating achieved in database: 2642
Overall record: +85 -47 =72 (59.3%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
      Based on games in the database; may be incomplete.
      4 exhibition games, odds games, etc. are excluded from this statistic.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS

With the White pieces:

Sicilian (43)
    B90 B78 B32 B46 B31
French Defense (15)
    C02 C18 C11 C13 C10
Sicilian Najdorf (13)
    B90 B91 B92
Ruy Lopez (11)
    C70 C84 C78 C67 C98
Caro-Kann (10)
    B12 B10 B18
Sicilian Taimanov (7)
    B46 B45 B47

With the Black pieces:

Sicilian (28)
    B33 B51 B22 B90 B30
Semi-Slav (11)
    D45 D47 D43 D49
Ruy Lopez (10)
    C78 C65 C95 C67 C69
Modern Benoni (6)
    A57 A60 A77 A65 A64
Dutch Defense (6)
    A85 A87 A84 A81 A90
Slav (6)
    D11 D10 D15 D12

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   Y Zherebukh vs Mamedyarov, 2011 1-0
   I Nepomniachtchi vs Y Zherebukh, 2012 1/2-1/2
   Y Zherebukh vs Eljanov, 2011 1-0
   P Michalik vs Y Zherebukh, 2011 0-1

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YAROSLAV ZHEREBUKH
(born Jul-14-1993) Ukraine

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Zherebukh started playing chess at the age of 7. He became an IM in 2007 and a GM with effect from October 2008 at the age of 15 years and 2 months and 18 days. Zherebukh started competing in FIDE rated tournaments in 2004 at the age of 10, including the 2004 Ukrainian Championship, and immediately immersed himself in tournaments both in Ukraine and in Europe. He became Ukraine’s U12 champion in 2005, and Ukraine's U14 champion in 2006 and 2007.

In 2006, he scored 5.5/8 at Ukrainian Championships, placed =2nd with 7/9 at the European Youth Championships U14, =3rd at the Cup of Chervonograd-2 in Ukraine and =1st alongside Andrey Vovk, Yuri Vovk, Vladimir Onischuk and Andrey Grekh at the Ukrainian Boys U20 Championship (Semi final), although he finished behind these players on count back. In 2007, he was =2nd at the Femida tournament in Kharkiv behind Sanan Sjugirov. He won his third IM norm, thereby gaining the IM title, at the European Individual Championships (2007) in Dresden. In 2008, he was =1st at the 4th Effim Geller Memorial held in Odessa, =2nd at the Podillya GM tournament in Khmelnitsky, Ukraine, outright first at the Vasylyshyn Memorial in L’viv and =1st at the 6th V.Somov's Memorial - World Youth Stars, coming second on count back to Aleksandr Shimanov. Also in 2008, Zherebukh gained his three GM norms: at the Moscow Open (2008) where he scored 5.5/9, the Voronezh Open (5.5/9) and at the Transcarparthian Cup in Mukachevo where he scored 7.5/11 to come second behind Darmen Sadvakasov.

In 2009 he won the First Saturday GM Aug 2009 in Budapest, and the Mukachevo Open. In 2010, he won the Cappelle la Grande (2010) , come second on count back behind Anton Kovalyov at the Open International de l'Ouest Toulousain - A in France, won the 8th V. Somov's Memorial - World Youth Stars in Russia and the 18th International Open Tournament "Honour to National Resistance" Group A, came second to Valentin Iotov in the University of Twente Young Masters held in the Netherlands and won the 18th Nikaia International Open Chess Tournament "Honour to National Resistance" 2010 Group A in Greece with 9/9. In 2011 so far he has scored 8/11 in the 9th International Open in New Delhi (1 point behind the leaders, albeit unplaced) and 7.5/11 in the 3rd Chennai International Open, 2 points from the lead. A strong showing with 7.5/11 (TPR 2712) in the 12th European Individual Championship (2011) placed him 20th on tiebreak and qualified him for his inaugural participation in the World Championship cycle, namely the right to play in the World Cup (2011), where he has been the dark horse of the contest, beating his countryman, GM Pavel Eljanov, Argentine GM Ruben Felgaer and most unexpectedly, Azeri super-GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov in the first three rounds to make it through to the Round of Sixteen to face David Navara, who eliminated him from the event with a convincing victory in the classical games 2-0. Zherebukh also competed in the Ukrainian Club Championships which finished in May 2011, scoring 5.5/6 and in the Turkish Clubs Championships which finished in July 2011, scoring 6/9. There followed an excellent result in the European Club Cup (2011) where he scored 5/6 and then placed =4th in the 15th Unive Open (2011), scoring 6.5/9, a half point behind the three co-winners. He finished 2011 strongly with 6.5/9 at Groningen (+4 =5), placing =3rd behind compatriot GM Alexander Kovchan and US GM Robert Lee Hess, and alongside Dutch GM Sergei Tiviakov.

Zherebukh started 2012 auspiciously with an outright first place at the Category 13 RSSU Student Grandmaster Cup (men) held in Moscow in conjunction with the Moscow Open, scoring 7/9 (+6 -1 =2), winning his six games in a consecutive sequence through to the last round. Following this, he placed =2nd at Groningen with 6.5/9, and then won Moscow Open 2012 D with 7/9. After this he competed at the Aeroflot Open (2012), scoring an excellent 5.5/9 (+3 -1 =5; TPR 2749) placing =9th (15th on tiebreak) after facing 9 other GMs, including 3 over 2700 against whom he also had a positive score of +1 =2, defeating Francisco Vallejo-Pons. This excellent start to the bimonthly rating period to 1 March 2012 added 48 points to his rating and he was knocking on the door of the top 100. Since then, he scored 9/13 in the World Junior Championship (2012), a point off the lead, and won the BDO Chess Tournament 2012 - Premier held in August in the Netherlands, with 7/9. He also played in the Bundesliga for four rounds, scoring 3/4, defeating David Navara and Anish Giri and drawing with Andrei Volokitin and Laurent Fressinet.

As of 1 May 2013, Zherebukh's rating was 2629. He is Ukraine's 2nd ranked Junior after Illya Nyzhnyk.

Homepage: www.grandcoach.com/zherebukh * RSSU Student Grandmaster Cup (men)

Wikipedia article: Yaroslav Zherebukh

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Game	Result	Moves	Year	Event/Locale	Opening
1. N Papenin vs Y Zherebukh	½-½	28	2006	UKR-chT	A65 Benoni, 6.e4
2. Y Zherebukh vs A Sumets	½-½	20	2006	ch-UKR sf	C18 French, Winawer
3. Y Zherebukh vs D Olenichev	1-0	56	2006	UKR-ch U14	B20 Sicilian
4. H Simonian vs Y Zherebukh	½-½	37	2007	Femida Super	B25 Sicilian, Closed
5. Y Zherebukh vs N Zhornik	1-0	43	2007	Ukranian U20 Championships	B32 Sicilian
6. I Starostits vs Y Zherebukh	½-½	45	2007	European Individual Championships	B23 Sicilian, Closed
7. A Kovchan vs Y Zherebukh	½-½	50	2007	Femida Super	B09 Pirc, Austrian Attack
8. P Korobkov vs Y Zherebukh	½-½	35	2007	Femida Super	A01 Nimzovich-Larsen Attack
9. Y Zherebukh vs V Onischuk	0-1	29	2007	Ukranian U20 Championships	B10 Caro-Kann
10. Y Zherebukh vs Dgebuadze	½-½	28	2007	European Individual Championships	C18 French, Winawer
11. Y Zherebukh vs D Straubinger	½-½	46	2007	17th EU-ch U14 Boys	C99 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Chigorin, 12...cd
12. Y Zherebukh vs V Aveskulov	1-0	54	2007	Femida Super	B90 Sicilian, Najdorf
13. M Kravtsiv vs Y Zherebukh	1-0	84	2007	Ukranian U20 Championships	B33 Sicilian
14. Y Zherebukh vs D Solak	½-½	61	2007	European Individual Championships	B32 Sicilian
15. I Nyzhnyk vs Y Zherebukh	½-½	49	2007	UKR-ch U14	A78 Benoni, Classical with ...Re8 and ...Na6
16. Y Zherebukh vs U Atakisi	0-1	44	2007	Femida Super	B33 Sicilian
17. A Vovk vs Y Zherebukh	0-1	42	2007	Ukranian U20 Championships	B33 Sicilian
18. Y Zherebukh vs R Ruck	0-1	32	2007	European Individual Championships	B12 Caro-Kann Defense
19. G Arzumanian vs Y Zherebukh	½-½	53	2007	Femida Super	B85 Sicilian, Scheveningen, Classical
20. Y Zherebukh vs S Lots	0-1	47	2007	Ukranian U20 Championships	B45 Sicilian, Taimanov
21. R Buhmann vs Y Zherebukh	½-½	32	2007	European Individual Championships	A04 Reti Opening
22. D Boros vs Y Zherebukh	½-½	34	2007	European Individual Championships	B33 Sicilian
23. N Mamedov vs Y Zherebukh	½-½	47	2007	Femida Super	B56 Sicilian
24. Y Zherebukh vs A Tukhaev	½-½	31	2007	Ukranian U20 Championships	B70 Sicilian, Dragon Variation
25. Romanishin vs Y Zherebukh	½-½	19	2007	European Individual Championships	A43 Old Benoni


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Feb-07-08		BIDMONFA: Yaroslav Zherebukh ZHEREBUKH, Yaroslav http://www.bidmonfa.com/zherebukh_y... _

Feb-10-09		jon01: He was born on 1993 and is already a grandmaster.

Apr-11-09		GrahamClayton: Zherebukh reached the following amazing position against Pavlov during the 2008 Ukrainian Championship: click for larger view White won with 37.f6+, with the game finishing 37...d7 38. f7+ 1-0 The interesting point was that if Black accepted the Queen sacrifice with 37...f6, Zherebukh would have mated with a double Knight underpromotion, eg 38. g8()+ g8 39.hg8()#

Aug-18-09		timhortons: http://cheszpatzerblog.blogspot.com... heres his picture, i take it last quebec chess championship 2009. he is a very young GM.

Aug-19-09		laskereshevsky: His last success... http://firstsaturday.freeweb.hu/090...

Aug-19-09		timhortons: how old is this boy?15? <laskereshevsky> he win the budapest tourney right? Ranking after round 13 of First Saturday GM Aug 2009 Budapest No. PNo. Name Score WP SB PS rat. TPR W-We --- 1. 9 Zherebukh, Yaroslav 9.0 84.5 59.25 66.0 2541 2627 +1.28 2. 5 Oleksienko, Mikhailo 8.0 84.5 54.75 58.0 2543 2559 +0.26 3 Rapport, Richard 8.0 84.5 52.50 63.5 2401 2570 +2.72 4. 2 Varga, Zoltan 7.5 84.5 49.50 49.0 2473 2534 +0.97 5. 4 Szabo, Krisztian 6.5 84.5 42.75 46.5 2493 2467 -0.40 1 Seres, Lajos 6.5 84.5 39.75 36.0 2456 2470 +0.26 7. 12 Tzermiadianos, Andreas 5.5 84.5 36.00 43.0 2447 2413 -0.59 8 Samhouri, Ahmad 5.5 84.0 29.75 37.0 2375 2394 +0.24 9. 10 Pap, Gyula 5.0 84.5 31.75 30.5 2503 2380 -2.07 10. 6 Shen, Siyuan 4.5 86.5 37.75 40.5 2321 2435 +1.48 11 Boros, Denes 4.5 84.5 28.75 32.0 2485 2351 -2.26 7 Rees, Ioan 4.5 83.0 26.50 27.5 2339 2329 -0.18 13. 13 Payen, Arnaud 3.0 84.5 22.75 16.5 2368 2255 -1.71

Feb-07-10		chessfootball: please visit Yaroslav homepage www.grandcoach.com/zherebukh

Feb-20-10		BIDMONFA: Yaroslav Zherebukh ZHEREBUKH, Yaroslav http://www.bidmonfa.com/zherebukh_y... _

Feb-20-10		Tabanus: http://www.chessbase.com/news/2008/... He won Cappelle la Grande today: http://cappelle-chess.fr/en2/userpa..., congratulations!

Feb-20-10		wanabe2000: Looks like in July he will be 17 years of age. Great tournament win today in France. (+7-1=1) beating the early leader Mikhail Gurevich in Rd.8 and drawing with Parimarjan Negi in Rd.9. His only loss was to Yuri Vovk in Rd.3.

Jul-05-10		chessfootball: He won in «World’s Youth Stars» in 2010. His best games, impressions and photos in http://grandcoach.com/en/students/1...

Aug-27-10		Tabanus: Winner of "Honor to National Resistance" (Greece) 20-27 August 2010: http://www.chess-results.com/tnr373..., 9/9 and 3017 perf.

Sep-05-11		Troller: Not a single kibitz here while the World Cup has been going on. Zherebukh has been the major positive surprise and could be on his way to eliminating Mamedyarov now.

Sep-05-11		twinlark: I've noticed the lad's extra solid defence in the tourney so far. He'll be a force to be reckoned with in the next few years.

Sep-05-11		notyetagm: <Troller: ... could be on his way to eliminating Mamedyarov now.> Done.

Sep-05-11		Domdaniel: <twinlark> Yep, he seems to be very strong defensively - as well as being able to roll over a Sicilian or a Caro when playing White and an opportunity presents itself. He seems to have been seriously underrated, in both senses.

Sep-05-11		ketchuplover: Future world champion!?

Sep-06-11		Domdaniel: <ketchuplover> I think this is where the FIDE bosses step in and say "We already have a future world champion, we don't need another one".

Dec-25-11		achieve: <Zherebukh> is leading the Groningen Chess Festival with an as of yet flawless score: 4/4 Today's a restday, after which Tiviakov awaits on Monday. Here a few of his games sofar: [Event "Schaakfestival Groningen 2011 Open A"] [Site "Groningen, NED"] [Date "2011.12.21"] [Round "1.4"] [White "Rietveld, Renze"] [Black "Zherebukh, Yaroslav"] [Result "0-1"] [ECO "B41"] [Opening "Sicilian"] [Variation "Kan, 5.c4 Nf6 6.Nc3 Qc7"] [TimeControl "7200"] 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 a6 5. Nc3 Qc7 6. Bd3 Nf6 7. Qe2 Bc5 8. Nb3 Bd6 9. Be3 b5 10. O-O-O Be5 11. g4 Bb7 12. Bd2 b4 13. Na4 Bc6 14. Nac5 a5 15. Bb5 a4 16. Nxa4 Bxe4 17. Bxb4 Bxh1 18. Rxh1 Nd5 19. Bc5 Bd6 20. c4 Bxc5 21. Naxc5 Qf4+ 22. Kb1 Nc7 23. Nd3 Qd6 24. Rd1 Qb6 25. a4 Nxb5 26. axb5 O-O 27. Qe3 Qc7 28. c5 Qb7 29. Nd4 Qd5 30. Qf3 Qa2+ 31. Kc2 Na6 32. bxa6 Qc4+ 33. Kd2 Qxd4 34. Ra1 Rfb8 35. Ke2 e5 36. Qe3 Rxb2+ 37. Kf3 Rxf2+ 0-1 [Event "Schaakfestival Groningen 2011 Open A"] [Site "Groningen, NED"] [Date "2011.12.22"] [Round "2.4"] [White "Zherebukh, Yaroslav"] [Black "Pijpers, Arthur"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "B78"] [Opening "Sicilian"] [Variation "Dragon, Yugoslav, Main Line, 12.Kb1"] [TimeControl "7200"] 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 Nf6 4. Nc3 cxd4 5. Nxd4 g6 6. Be3 Bg7 7. f3 Nc6 8. Qd2 O-O 9. Bc4 Bd7 10. O-O-O Rc8 11. Bb3 Ne5 12. h4 h5 13. Kb1 Nc4 14. Bxc4 Rxc4 15. Nde2 b5 16. Bh6 b4 17. Bxg7 Kxg7 18. Nd5 Nxd5 19. exd5 e5 20. dxe6 Bxe6 21. Nd4 Qf6 22. b3 Rc3 23. Ne2 Rc5 24. Qxb4 Rfc8 25. Rd2 Bf5 26. Rc1 Qe7 27. Ng3 Be6 28. Ne4 Rd5 29. Rxd5 Bxd5 30. Qxd6 Qxd6 31. Nxd6 Rd8 32. Nb5 Bc6 33. Nxa7 Be8 34. c4 1-0

Dec-25-11		achieve: [Event "Schaakfestival Groningen 2011 Open A"] [Site "Groningen, NED"] [Date "2011.12.23"] [Round "3.3"] [White "Michalik, Peter"] [Black "Zherebukh, Yaroslav"] [Result "0-1"] [ECO "E94"] [Opening "King's Indian"] [Variation "7.O-O exd4 8.Nxd4 Re8 9.f3 c6"] [TimeControl "7200"] 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 d6 5. Nf3 O-O 6. Be2 e5 7. O-O exd4 8. Nxd4 Re8 9. f3 c6 10. Re1 Nh5 11. g4 Be5 12. gxh5 Qh4 13. f4 Bxd4+ 14. Qxd4 Qxe1+ 15. Kg2 Qh4 16. Be3 Bg4 17. h6 f6 18. Bxg4 Qxg4+ 19. Kf2 Nd7 20. Qxd6 Ne5 21. fxe5 Rad8 22. Qc5 Rxe5 23. Qxa7 Rh5 24. Rh1 Rh3 25. Bd4 Qf3+ 26. Kg1 Rh4 27. h3 Qg3+ 28. Kf1 Qd3+ 29. Kg2 Rxd4 30. Qxb7 Qd2+ 31. Kg1 Qe1+ 0-1 Zherebukh's positional piece sac in worth noting, and analysing, <20 ... Ne5!!?> A swift mating attack follows. NEXT! [Event "ronde 4"] [Site "Groningen"] [Date "2011.12.24"] [Round "4.1"] [White "Zherebukh, Yaroslav"] [Black "Poetsch, Hagen"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "C02"] [Opening "French"] [Variation "Advance, 5.Nf3 Qb6 6.Be2 cxd4 7.cxd4"] [TimeControl "7200"] 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 c5 4. c3 Qb6 5. Nf3 Nc6 6. a3 Nh6 7. b4 cxd4 8. Bxh6 gxh6 9. cxd4 Bd7 10. Be2 Rg8 11. O-O Rg4 12. h3 Rf4 13. g3 Rxf3 14. Bxf3 Qxd4 15. Qxd4 Nxd4 16. Bh5 a5 17. Nc3 Rc8 18. Ne2 Nc6 19. Rfc1 axb4 20. axb4 Rb8 21. f4 Bxb4 22. Rc2 Ke7 23. Rca2 f6 24. exf6+ Kxf6 25. Ra8 Rxa8 26. Rxa8 e5 27. fxe5+ Nxe5 28. Kh2 Bc6 29. Rh8 Kg7 30. Rc8 Bd6 31. Be8 Bxe8 32. Rxe8 Nc6 33. Re6 Bf8 34. Nf4 Kf7 35. Re3 d4 36. Rb3 Nb4 37. Kg2 Kf6 38. Kf3 Ke5 39. Rb1 b5 40. Re1+ Kd6 41. h4 Nc6 42. Re6+ Kc5 43. Ke4 b4 44. Rf6 Be7 45. Rxh6 b3 46. Nd3+ Kb5 47. Rxh7 Kc4 48. h5 Kc3 49. h6 b2 50. Nxb2 Kxb2 51. Rxe7 Nxe7 52. h7 Ng6 53. Kxd4 Kb3 54. Ke4 1-0 Very nice technique on display after some 25 moves, gradually outplaying POETSCH for another smooth conversion.

Dec-28-11		Penguincw: < achieve > Thanks for the games. :)

Jan-06-12		OhioChessFan: I am more and more impressed the more I look at his games.

Feb-05-12		bronkenstein: Yaroslav just won the ´young GM´ section of the Moscow 2012 , full point ahead of the pack (including Robson,Avetik, Matlakov, Ipatov...). He finished strongly, by making 6 victories <in a row> in last 6 rounds.

Feb-05-12		wordfunph: <bronkenstein: He finished strongly, by making 6 victories <in a row> in last 6 rounds.> awesome perf! GM Zherebukh's rating progress chart.. http://ratings.fide.com/id.phtml?ev...

Feb-09-12		tamar: After a bad loss yesterday, Zherebukh found a shot today and looks to be on the way to victory against Daniel Alsina Leal. 26 Bc2-g6! click for larger view

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