Ilya Gurevich is a Soviet-born American

United States

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 chess

Chess

Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...

 grandmaster.

He became a chess master at 12 years, 3 months.http://72.14.209.104/search?q=cache:9dzgq4bLSakJ:www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/lab/7378/age.htm+Ilya+Gurevich+chess&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=28&gl=us He was a student at Yeshiva Academy in Worcester, Massachusetts.
In 1983, he won the U.S. National Scholastic Elementary School Chess Championshiphttp://72.14.209.104/search?q=cache:-NqXepNdliwJ:www.concentric.net/~williams/NatChess.html+Ilya+Gurevich+chess+junior&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=33&gl=us;
the following year, at twelve, he won the world under-14 championship in Lomas de Zamora

Lomas de Zamora

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, Argentina

Argentina

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.

As an 18-year-old from Worcester, Massachusetts, he won the 1990 World Junior Championship

World Junior Chess Championship

The World Junior Chess Championship is an under-20 chess tournament organized by the World Chess Federation ....

 held in Varones, Chile

Chile

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, defeating Alexei Shirov

Alexei Shirov

Alexei Dmitrievich Shirov is a Soviet-born Latvian chess grandmaster. He has consistently ranked among the world's top players since the early 1990s, and reached a ranking as high as number four in 1998...

 on the way. A Soviet emigre, he tied for first place and was awarded the title because of superior tiebreak points.

With a pre-tournament ranking of 11th in the field of the world's top players under 20 years of age, Gurevich was not one of the favorites, but was the only player who was undefeated. The victory automatically earned him the International Master title.

He later became a stock exchange

Stock exchange

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options trader.http://72.14.209.104/search?q=cache:_H392kA9GUIJ:www.chessville.com/BillWall/ChessandotherOccupations.htm+Ilya+Gurevich+chess&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=39&gl=us

External links

• "Pastimes; Chess," 9/30/90