Semen Dvoirys
Russian chess grandmaster (born 1958)
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Semen Isaakovich Dvoirys[1] (Russian: Семён Исаакович Двойрис, romanized: Semyon Isaakovich Dvoyris; born 2 November 1958) is a Russian chess player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 1990.
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2 November 1958
Dvoirys in 2009 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | Semyon Isaakovich Dvoirys 2 November 1958 |
| Chess career | |
| Country | Soviet Union → Russia |
| Title | Grandmaster (1990) |
| Peak rating | 2615 (July 1997) |
| Peak ranking | No. 51 (July 1997) |
Chess career
Dvoirys competed in the 1993 Interzonal tournament, held in Biel.[2] In 2000, he took part in the inaugural Anatoly Karpov International tournament, a category 14 round-robin tournament in Poikovsky, Russia: he scored 3½ points from 9 games, tying for 7th-8th places.[3]
In 2001, he tied for 1st–2nd places with Alexey Korotylev at Geneva Open.[4] In 2010, he won the Izmailov Memorial tournament in Tomsk,[5] tied for 1st-5th places in the A2 group of the Aeroflot Open with Aleksei Pridorozhni, Igor Glek, Sergey Pavlov and Mikhail Panarin,[6][7] and tied for 1st–4th with Sergei Yudin, Pavel Smirnov and Sergei Iskusnyh at Pavlodar.[8] In 2011 he came first in the Lev Polugaevsky Memorial tournament in Chelyabinsk.[9]
Dvoirys played for the victorious team Russia 1 at the 2014 European Senior Team Chess Championship in Šibenik. He scored 6½/9 playing on the first board.[10][11]
He competed at the 2017 Maccabiah Games.[12]
