Yuriy Kuzubov

Who is Yuriy Kuzubov?

Yuriy Kuzubov, is one of the youngest International Grandmasters in the history of chess. As of April 2008, his rating was 2603. He completed his final grandmaster norm at age 14 years, 7 months, 12 days in 2004. His first name is sometimes spelled "Yuri" or "Yury".

In 2004 he tied for 1st–4th with Yge Visser, Friso Nijboer and John van der Wiel in the Harmonie Invitational in Groningen. In 2009, he tied for 1st–3rd with Dmitry Andreikin and Rauf Mamedov in a category 16 tournament at Lubbock, Texas. In 2011, tied for 1st–5th with Alexander Areshchenko, Parimarjan Negi, Markus Ragger and Ni Hua in the 9th Parsvnath Open Tournament and tied for 1st–6th with Ivan Sokolov, Vladimir Baklan, Kamil Miton, Jon Ludvig Hammer and Illya Nyzhnyk in the MP Reykjavík Open.