GM Yuriy Kryvoruchko
Bio
Yuriy Kryvoruchko is a Ukrainian grandmaster and the 2013 Ukrainian Chess Champion. That victory came after he defeated GM and former FIDE world champion Ruslan Ponomariov on tiebreaks. The same year, Kryvoruchko made it to the third round of the World Cup after a surprising win against GM Michael Adams in the previous round. Kryvoruchko has spent much of the past decade ranked in the top-50 players in the world (as of March 2021).