Yury Rafaelovich Dokhoian (russian: Юрий Рафаэлович Дохоян; 26 October 1964 – 1 July 2021) was a Russian Grandmaster of

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(1988) of

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origin.

Career

Dokhoian played several times in the first league of the

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. In 1986, he tied for second place in the All-Union tournament of young masters. He came first in

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1986, first in Plovdiv 1988, tied for second in

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1988, third behind

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and Lev Psakhis in

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1988, third in Sochi 1988, tied for first with

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1989 and with Yury Piskov in

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1991, first in Berlin 1992, first in

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1993, first in Lublin 1993, first in

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1993, tied for first with

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in Munster 1993. According to

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, at his peak in February 1989 Dokhoian's play was equivalent to a rating of 2687, and he was ranked number 33 in the world. His best single performance was at Yerevan 1988, where he scored 9 of 13 possible points (69%) against 2598-rated opposition, for a

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of 2703. For many years, Dokhoian was

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's second. In 2009, he started cooperating with

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, being at the same time the coach of the Russian women's team. He was also the coach of the female world class players, the sisters

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and

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. In 2007, he was awarded the title of FIDE Senior Trainer.

Death

On 1 July 2021, Dokhoian died in Moscow from

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References

External links

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Grandmaster Games Database - Yury DokhoianChessmetrics Player Profile: Yury Dokhoian
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