Yaroslav Volodymyrovych Zherebukh ( uk, Яросла́в Володи́мирович Жеребу́х; born July 14, 1993, in

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) is a Ukrainian-American

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Grandmaster (2009).

Career

In 2006, he was a member of the Ukrainian national youth team, which won the U-16

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in Turkey. His biggest success so far has been his victory, in February 2010, of the colossal

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in France, ahead of 82 Grandmasters and 61 International masters (652 players), with 7.5 points out of 9. In 2010, Yaroslav scored 8/11 (7 wins, 2 losses, 2 draws) to win the Young Stars of the World tournament, held in Kirishi, Russia. In the 2011 World Cup, held in

Khanty-Mansiysk Khanty-Mansiysk ( rus, Ха́нты-Манси́йск, Khánty-Mansíysk, lit. ''Khanty-Mansi Town''; Khanty language, Khanty: , ''Jomvoćś''; Mansi language, Mansi: , ''Abga'') is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, city and the admini ...

, he caused a sensation by eliminating two super-grandmasters,

Pavel Eljanov Pavel Eljanov ( uk, Павло Володимирович Ельянов, translit=Pavlo Volodymyrovych Elyanov; born 10 May 1983) is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster. He has won two team gold medals and one individual silver medal at the Chess Oly ...

and

Shakhriyar Mamedyarov Shahriyar Hamid oghlu Mammadyarov ( az, Şəhriyar Həmid oğlu Məmmədyarov; born 12 April 1985), known internationally as Shakhriyar Mamedyarov , is an Azerbaijani chess grandmaster. he is ranked No. 1 in Azerbaijan and No. 13 in the world. ...

in the first and third rounds. Eventually he was knocked out by Czech super-GM

David Navara David Navara (born 27 March 1985) is a Czech chess grandmaster, the highest-ranked of his country. Awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 2002, he is an 11-time national champion (in 2004, 2005, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2 ...

. In May 2015, Zherebukh switched his affiliation from Ukraine to the United States. In 2016 he qualified to compete in the 2017 U.S. Championship where he scored a notable win in the seventh round against world #3 and reigning US Champion

Fabiano Caruana Fabiano Luigi Caruana (born July 30, 1992) is an American chess grandmaster. A chess prodigy, Caruana became a grandmaster at the age of 14 years, 11 months, and 20 days—the youngest grandmaster in the history of both Italy and the United Sta ...

. In 2020, Zherebukh won the Chicago Chess Center 3rd Jane Addams Memorial. Zherebukh has stated that

Akiba Rubinstein Akiba Kiwelowicz Rubinstein (1 December 1880 – 14 March 1961) was a Polish chess player. He is considered to have been one of the greatest players never to have become World Chess Champion. Rubinstein was granted the title Grandmaster (chess), ...

is his favourite chess player, "because of his perfect technique and very rich understanding of chess."

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