Yury Dokhoian

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Paul Cooksey
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Yury Dokhoian

Post by Paul Cooksey » Thu Jul 01, 2021 8:44 pm

Sad news of his death today at just 56. Many GMs playing tribute on twitter.

Strong GM as he was, I think known to most of us as a key member of Kasparov's chess team.

https://ruchess.ru/en/news/all/rip_yury ... 1964_2021/

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Re: Yury Dokhoian

Post by Simon Rogers » Fri Jul 02, 2021 5:56 pm

Thanks for informing us Paul.
Very sad news, still a fairly young age and the cause being Covid-19. He had so much left to give.
I believe he shared first place with the late Tony Miles at the Munster tournament back in 1993.
According to Wikipedia he achieved a rating of 2687 in 1989 and was number 33 in the world.
He won a number of high profile tournaments and taught Sergey Karjakin.
Still was teaching young players until recently.
Big loss to Russian chess.
RIP
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Re: Yury Dokhoian

Post by JustinHorton » Sat Jul 03, 2021 7:24 am

"Do you play chess?"
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Re: Yury Dokhoian

Post by Paul Cooksey » Tue Jul 06, 2021 7:51 pm

Garry Kasparov

"I have no insight into what comes after death, but I know that it will find Yuri Dokhoian well prepared." is a very nice line.

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