GM in 2007. Rated 2630 in Sept. 2009. ICC: avantage

Biography: http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitri... (in Polish)

Pictures:
http://www.chessbase.com/espanola/i... http://www.chessbase.com/news/2009/... (2009's winning Higher League Polytechnik team: GMs Kryakvin, Maletin, and Kokarev)

Placed 5th in Russian Junior Ch 2002, 9th in Chigorin Memorial 2004 (1st GM norm), 10th in Moscow Open 2005 (2nd GM norm), 7th in Voronezh Master Open 2007, 12th in Chigorin Memorial 2007, 98th in European Ch 2008, 106th in European Ch 2010, 20th in Commonwealth Ch 2010,

The third edition of the Mumbai Mayor's Cup chess tournament started on 2nd June and continued over eleven rounds of Swiss system until 10th June. The event, organised by Venus Chess Academy and conducted by the Bombay Chess Association, took place at the Goregaon Sports Club.

Russian Grandmaster Dmitry Kokarev won the exhausting tournament by collecting nine points from eleven games. He took up the sole lead in round seven, after beating Argentinian GM Anton Kovalyov, and rebuffed all attacks of his opponents in the remaining games.

Final standings:

1. GM Kokarev Dmitry RUS 2612 - 9.0

2-7. GM Maletin Pavel RUS 2584, GM Dreev Alexey RUS 2655, GM Aleksandrov Aleksej BLR 2604, GM Bocharov Dmitry RUS 2592, GM Fier Alexandr BRA 2581 and GM Luther Thomas GER 2541 - 8.5

8-21. GM Kovalyov Anton ARG 2615, GM Khusnutdinov Rustam KAZ 2525, GM Varga Zoltan HUN 2479, GM Hera Imre Jr HUN 2558, GM Turov Maxim RUS 2624, GM Kunte Abhijit IND 2523, GM Greenfeld Alon ISR 2561, GM Kravtsiv Martyn UKR 2546, IM Himanshu Sharma IND 2440, IM Ashwin Jayaram IND 2457, GM Pogorelov Ruslan UKR 2454, GM Ovetchkin Roman RUS 2519, IM Tirto INA 2358 and IM Debashis Das IND 2400 - 8.0