Dmitry Jakovenko Explained

Dmitry Jakovenko
Birth Name:Dmitry Olegovich Jakovenko
Country:Russia
Birth Date:29 June 1983
Birth Place:Nizhnevartovsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Grandmaster (2001)
Peakrating:2760 (January 2009)
Peakranking:No. 5 (July 2009)
Fideid:4122356

Dmitry Olegovich Jakovenko (Russian: Дмитрий Олегович Яковенко; born 29 June 1983) is a Russian chess player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 2001. Jakovenko was European champion in 2012. He was a member of the gold medal-winning Russian team at the 2009 World Team Chess Championship and at the European Team Chess Championships of 2007 and 2015.

Chess career

Jakovenko learned chess from his father at the age of three years and was later coached by Garry Kasparov's former trainer Alexander Nikitin.[1] In 2001 he won the Under 18 section of the World Youth Chess Championships[2] and the Saint-Vincent Open.[3]

Jakovenko tied for first place in the Russian Championship Superfinal 2006, but lost the playoff against Evgeny Alekseev,[4] got second place at Pamplona 2006/2007, Corus B Group 2007, and Aeroflot Open 2007. He finished first in the Anatoly Karpov International Tournament (pl) in Poikovsky, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Russia in 2007, 2012[5] and 2018.[6]

In the July 2009 FIDE world rankings Jakovenko became the fifth highest rated chess player in the world and overtook Vladimir Kramnik as the number one Russian (Kramnik regained the position in September that year).[7] In the same month Jakovenko competed at the Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting, finishing shared second with Peter Leko and Magnus Carlsen, fourth on tiebreak, with a score of 5½/10, one point behind Kramnik.[8] [9]

Jakovenko won the 2012 European Individual Chess Championship in Plovdiv with a score of 8½/11 points. He won the Russian Cup knockout tournament in 2013,[10] 2014,[11] 2016[12] [13] and 2017.[14] In December 2014, Jakovenko took second place, behind Igor Lysyj, in the Superfinal of the 67th Russian championship in Kazan.[15]

In 2015 Jakovenko tied for first place with Hikaru Nakamura and Fabiano Caruana in the last stage of the FIDE Grand Prix series, held in Khanty Mansyisk, scoring 6½/11 points.[16] He took first place on tiebreak[17] [18] and placed third in the Grand Prix overall standings with 310 points.[19] In November 2017 Jakovenko shared first place with Levon Aronian in the last leg of the FIDE Grand Prix 2017 series, which took place in Palma, Majorca, taking first place on tiebreak.[20]

In 2018, Jakovenko tied for 1st - 2nd place in the Superfinal of the 71st Russian championship in Satka, Chelyabinsk Oblast. He lost the rapid playoffs to Dmitry Andreikin and finished in second place. [21]

Notable chess games

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Corus Chess 2007 - Biography of Dmitry Jakovenko. coruschess.com. https://web.archive.org/web/20070928003349/http://www.coruschess.com/participants.php?year=2007&group=2&bio=1. 2007-09-28. dead. 2018-08-03.
  2. Web site: The Week in Chess 365. theweekinchess.com. 2016-10-11.
  3. Web site: The Week in Chess 327. theweekinchess.com. 2016-10-11.
  4. Web site: Evgeny Alekseev, 21, wins Russian Superfinal. ChessBase. 24 November 2015. 2006-12-16.
  5. Web site: Silver. Albert. XV Karpov-Poikovsky starts with firebrand lineup. ChessBase. 2 October 2015. 2014-05-13.
  6. Web site: 19th Karpov Poikovsky 2018. The Week in Chess. 2019-04-21.
  7. Web site: Ratings July 2009 The Week in Chess. theweekinchess.com. 2016-10-11.
  8. Web site: Dortmund 10: Kramnik wins Dortmund for the ninth time. ChessBase. 28 January 2016. 2009-07-12.
  9. http://www.teleschach.com/aktuelles/dtmd-09.htm Sparkassen Chess Meeting 2009 im Dortmunder Theater
  10. Web site: SIlver. Albert. Russian Cup gold for Jakovenko and Bodnaruk. ChessBase. 9 December 2015. 2013-12-20.
  11. Web site: Jakovenko Wins Russian Cup Again. chess-news.ru. 9 December 2015. 2014-11-25.
  12. Web site: Dmitry Jakovenko Wins Russian Cup. 2016-12-12. ruchess.ru. Russian Chess Federation. 2016-12-18.
  13. Web site: The Week in Chess 1153. Crowther. Mark. 2016-12-12. The Week in Chess. 2016-12-18.
  14. News: Dmitry Jakovenko Wins Russian Cup Final. 2017-12-12. Russian Chess Federation. 2017-12-13.
  15. Web site: Russian Super Finals - Lysyj and Gunina become 2014 Russian Champions. FIDE. 29 September 2015. 11 September 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150911235629/http://www.fide.com/component/content/article/4-tournaments/8437-russian-super-finals-lysyj-and-gunina-become-2014-russian-champions-.html. dead.
  16. Web site: Khanty Mansiysk GP: Caruana and Nakamura qualify for Candidates Tournament. 2015-05-27. Chessdom. 2016-12-18.
  17. Web site: FIDE Grand Prix Khanty-Mansiysk 2015. Crowther. Mark. 2015-05-26. The Week in Chess. 2017-09-21.
  18. News: Dmitry Jakovenko: "I Always Perform Well in Khanty-Mansiysk". Kublashvili. Eteri. 2015-06-01. Russian Chess Federation. 2017-09-21.
  19. http://khantymansiysk2015.fide.com/standings/ Standings
  20. Web site: Palma de Mallorca FIDE Grand Prix 2017. Crowther. Mark. 2017-11-25. The Week in Chess. 2017-12-13.
  21. Web site: Andreikin and Pogonina Win Russian Championship Titles. Solomatin (Marignon). Yury. Chess.com. en-US. 2020-02-28.