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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/

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

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.