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Ilya Gurevich

Number of games in database: 277
Years covered: 1984 to 1998
Highest rating achieved in database: 2586
Overall record: +116 -64 =88 (59.7%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games in the database. 9 exhibition games, blitz/rapid, odds games, etc. are excluded from this statistic.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:
 Sicilian (60) 
    B32 B76 B83 B90 B33
 Ruy Lopez (20) 
    C69 C91 C89 C84 C75
 French Defense (19) 
    C05 C07 C03 C09 C04
 French Tarrasch (19) 
    C05 C07 C03 C09 C04
 Sicilian Richter-Rauser (13) 
    B63 B62 B65 B60 B68
 Caro-Kann (10) 
    B12 B10 B17 B15 B13
With the Black pieces:
 Sicilian (40) 
    B43 B42 B90 B92 B93
 Grunfeld (27) 
    D85 D86 D91 D90 D94
 Sicilian Kan (19) 
    B42 B43 B41
 Sicilian Najdorf (11) 
    B90 B92 B93 B97
 King's Indian (11) 
    E60 E84 E97 E65 E61
 English (10) 
    A15 A10
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NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   I Gurevich vs K K Karanja, 1987 1-0
   I Gurevich vs Kamsky, 1991 1/2-1/2
   J Waitzkin vs I Gurevich, 1994 0-1
   I Gurevich vs Nunn, 1993 1-0
   Gulko vs I Gurevich, 1993 1/2-1/2
   I Gurevich vs Bronstein, 1992 1-0
   Psakhis vs I Gurevich, 1992 1/2-1/2
   I Gurevich vs R F Henao, 1991 1/2-1/2
   Ftacnik vs I Gurevich, 1993 0-1
   Polugaevsky vs I Gurevich, 1993 0-1

NOTABLE TOURNAMENTS: [what is this?]
   World Junior Championship (1990)
   New York Open (1993)
   Hastings 1992/93 (1992)
   Reshevsky Memorial (1992)
   New York Open (1991)
   Hastings 1993/94 (1993)
   United States Championship (1992)
   15th Lloyds Bank Masters Open (1991)
   16th Lloyds Bank Masters Open (1992)
   Hastings Challengers 1991/92 (1991)
   World Youth Championship (U-18) (1990)
   New York Open (1992)
   World Youth U26 Team Championship (1991)
   18th Lloyds Bank Masters Open (1994)
   Biel Interzonal (1993)

GAME COLLECTIONS: [what is this?]
   Hastings 1992/93 by suenteus po 147

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ILYA GUREVICH
(born Feb-08-1972, 53 years old) Ukraine (federation/nationality United States of America)

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Ilya Markovich Gurevich was awarded the title of FIDE Master in 1985 and was the World U-20 Champion in 1990, which earned him the International Master title. In 1993, Gurevich received the Grandmaster title.

Wikipedia article: Ilya Gurevich

Last updated: 2024-01-15 14:24:33

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 page 1 of 12; games 1-25 of 278  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. J Curdo vs I Gurevich 1-019198498th Rhode Island State ChampionshipC48 Four Knights
2. I Gurevich vs A Shaw  ½-½17198453rd Mass OpenB15 Caro-Kann
3. Kasparov vs I Gurevich 1-0341984Clock simul, 10bD75 Neo-Grunfeld, 6.cd Nxd5, 7.O-O c5, 8.dxc5
4. M Ginsburg vs I Gurevich ½-½371985PhiladelphiaE97 King's Indian
5. I Gurevich vs H Terrie  1-0301985West Suburban Summer Grand PrixB85 Sicilian, Scheveningen, Classical
6. A Shaw vs I Gurevich  1-0341985Cambridge Chess ClassicE84 King's Indian, Samisch, Panno Main line
7. J Johnson vs I Gurevich ½-½521985MatchC45 Scotch Game
8. I Gurevich vs J Johnson  1-0451985MatchB04 Alekhine's Defense, Modern
9. I Gurevich vs J Johnson  1-0491985MatchC03 French, Tarrasch
10. J Johnson vs I Gurevich  0-1421985MatchA00 Uncommon Opening
11. I Gurevich vs S Rachels  ½-½331986USA Junior Invitational ChampionshipB78 Sicilian, Dragon, Yugoslav Attack, 10.castle long
12. V Rao vs I Gurevich  ½-½261986USA Junior Invitational ChampionshipE91 King's Indian
13. A Fishbein vs I Gurevich  ½-½421986USA Junior Invitational ChampionshipC60 Ruy Lopez
14. I Gurevich vs R Burnett  ½-½371986USA Junior Invitational ChampionshipB60 Sicilian, Richter-Rauzer
15. J Litvinchuk vs I Gurevich  ½-½181986USA Junior Invitational ChampionshipA42 Modern Defense, Averbakh System
16. I Gurevich vs P Wolff  1-0311986USA Junior Invitational ChampionshipB09 Pirc, Austrian Attack
17. B Finegold vs I Gurevich  ½-½111986USA Junior Invitational ChampionshipA46 Queen's Pawn Game
18. A Lief vs I Gurevich  ½-½631986USA Junior Invitational ChampionshipA42 Modern Defense, Averbakh System
19. I Gurevich vs I Shtern  0-1401986USA Junior Invitational ChampionshipB33 Sicilian
20. P Wolff vs I Gurevich  1-0441986Wolff-Gurevich mC63 Ruy Lopez, Schliemann Defense
21. I Gurevich vs P Wolff  1-0271986Wolff-Gurevich mB09 Pirc, Austrian Attack
22. P Wolff vs I Gurevich 1-0271986Wolff-Gurevich mB02 Alekhine's Defense
23. I Gurevich vs P Wolff  0-1341986Wolff-Gurevich mB08 Pirc, Classical
24. E Schiller vs I Gurevich  0-134198614th World OpenB06 Robatsch
25. D Alzate vs I Gurevich  1-043198614th World OpenC76 Ruy Lopez, Modern Steinitz Defense, Fianchetto Variation
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Kibitzer's Corner
Feb-08-06  BIDMONFA: Ilya M Gurevich

GUREVICH, Ilya M.
http://www.bidmonfa.com/gurevich_il...
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Jun-21-07  nolanryan: If I knew where you lived BIDMONFA, I would egg your house.
Jun-21-07  Jim Bartle: If that's really you, Nolan, I suspect you'd throw him the high, hard one, and then grab his head and pound him with noogies.
Aug-18-07  wardvet: Bidmonfa lives in Spain...Barcelona I think. Anyway, his "Kibitzing" (and I use that term loosely) is very annoying.
Aug-31-07  lopium: Who is this player? He has played along the greatest player of our time!
Aug-31-07  Jim Bartle: Gurevich was world junior champion, then quit for good in 1994?
Dec-02-07  pawnofdoom: I believe he's the brother of Mikhail Gurevich and Dimitri Gurevich
Jul-28-08
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  Fusilli: <pawnofdoom: I believe he's the brother of Mikhail Gurevich and Dimitri Gurevich> Really? He is a lot younger than them. Dimitri was born in 1956 and Mikhail in 1959. Ilya in 1972. Not impossible, though, but do you have a source?
Jul-28-08  RookFile: He isn't. I was acquainted with him when he was a teenager. He still plays chess in the icc, his handle is junior.
Jul-28-08  Strongest Force: Junior is very friendly. I talked with him all the time when i was playing at the ICC.
Jul-28-08  najdorfman: I recall Ilya telling me that when he won the World Junior Championship the USCF, in its journalistic organ Chess Life, put a picture of a bunch of people on a cruise ship, on the cover! The cruise ship had something to do with a U.S. Senior Open Championship.

To say the least, he was not thrilled about it.

I asked him if he knew what "U.S.C.F" stood for? Sensing a sarcasm coming, he replied that he did not know. So I told him:

UNALTERABLY STUPID CHESS FEDERATION

Nov-27-10  kramputz: Here is another great talent who quit chess. What is Ilya doing these days?
Jul-04-11  technical draw: Here's what he's doing these days:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/R...

Jan-09-12  King Death: < pawnofdoom: I believe he's the brother of Mikhail Gurevich and Dimitri Gurevich>

None of these players are related to each other. There was an interview that Dimitri Gurevich gave a long time ago where he mentioned that. Gurevich is a common enough Jewish last name in the Ukraine if not on a par with Smith or Williams.

Jan-09-14
Premium Chessgames Member
  perfidious: <pawnofdoom: I believe he's the brother of Mikhail Gurevich and Dimitri Gurevich>

Not true.

Was well acquainted with Ilya in the eighties, as we played several times and were in numerous other events together.

Jun-12-21  Zugzwangovich: <najdorfman> This seems a bit of a bum rap on the USCF.

With Chess Life back issues now available online, one finds with not too much difficulty that they covered Ilya's winning the World Junior Championship in the 12/90 issue of CL. The cover of that issue (and the next) was devoted to the Kasparov-Karpov WCC match.

The cruise ship and U.S. Senior Open Championship graced the cover of the 2/91 issue, by which time the '90 World Junior was six-month-old news.

Jun-12-21  RookFile: I agree with Gurevich. I think a United States magazine could have featured an accomplishment by a United States citizen on the cover.
Jun-12-21  Zugzwangovich: <RookFile>I don't disagree with you; Gurevich rather than the two K's could have been on the cover of the 12/90 issue. But <najdorfman> indicates that what upset Gurevich was that he was not on the 2/91 issue cover, that honor being given instead to the U.S. Senior Open Championship.
Jun-12-21  RookFile: I actually remember this controversy from when it happened. Just a guess but I suspect that had they put him on the 3/91 cover it would have been ok, if a tad late. A cruise ship being worthy of a cover but not the world junior champion is probably what hurts him the most. Viewed from that angle I have to agree with him.
Jan-15-24  stone free or die: <perf> updates mentioned on Bistro:

Biographer Bistro (kibitz #27785)

FIDE notes GM title in 1985, which is incorrect - he got his first title, FIDE master (Byrne calls it "World Chess Federation master"), by winning the <U-14 Wch Lomas de Zamora, Argentina> tournament in 1985.

https://www.nytimes.com/1985/09/08/...

The GM title came later, though I don't have a contemporaneous source presently.

Jan-15-24  Granny O Doul: Over the years, Chess Life has tended to give disproportionate coverage to events that directly profit the USCF.

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