Vasily Yemelin (born 1 February 1976) is a Russian chess player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by

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in 1994. Yemelin won the championship of Saint Petersburg three times, in 1993, 2002 and 2011. He participated in two Chess Olympiads, in

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and

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, playing for Russia B team on both occasions. In 1994 he won the team bronze medal.

Chess career

Yemelin won the

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Open in 2001. In February 2007, he shared first place with

Evgeny Najer Evgeniy Yuryevich Najer (russian: Евгений Юревич Наер, translit=Evgeniy Yuryevich Nayer; born 22 June 1977) is a Russian chess grandmaster and the European champion of 2015. He is also one of the coaches of the Russian women's n ...

in the Moscow Open scoring 7½/9 points. He finished second on tiebreak score. One month later, Yemelin finished tied for first place with

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, Vugar Gashimov, David Arutinian and Yuri Drozdovskij in the Cappelle-la-Grande Open scoring 7/9 points. He ended in sixth place on tiebreak. In 2009, Yemelin shared first place with Alexey Dreev in the

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in Tallinn, Estonia, held with the rapidplay time control."Paehtz, Yemelin and Dreev Victorious at Paul Keres Memorial"
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