Sergey A. Fedorchuk – Ukrainian Chess Grandmaster

Sergey A. Fedorchuk is a Chess Grandmaster from Ukraine with Elo ratings exceeding 2500 from FIDE, making him one of the best Ukrainian chess players of all time.

Full Name: Sergey Fedorchuk

Title: Grandmaster (2002)

International Master (2000)

Place of birth: Ukraine

Born: March 14, 1981

Federation: Ukraine

Ratings

World ranking: 163

Rapid: 2505

Blitz: 2504

Classical: 2617

Peak rating: 2720 (November 2010)

Profiles

• FIDE
• Chessgames.com

Most Frequently Played Openings

With The White Pieces

• Sicilian Defense
• Ruy Lopez
• French Defense

With The Black Pieces

• Sicilian Defense
• Queen’s Indian
• Nimzo Indian

Biography

Sergey Fedorchuk is a famous Ukrainian chess Grandmaster born on March 14, 1981, in Ukraine. Fedorchuk was awarded the grandmaster title in 2002 and the International Master title in 2001. As of September 2022, Fedorchuk’s FIDE rating was 2617 while his Peak rating was 2674 as of November 2010.

The Beginning

Fedorchuk triumphed at the Under-14 European Youth Chess Championship 1995. Fedorchuk won a rapid tournament in Banyoles in 2006 and shared 1st place in the 8th Dubai Open with Gabriel Sargissian and Tigran L. Petrosian. In the 2008 Cappelle-la-Grande Open, Fedorchuk finished first to eighth with Vugar Gashimov, David Arutinian, Yuriy Kryvoruchko, Konstantin Chernyshov, Andrei Deviatkin, Vasilios Kotronias, and Erwin L’Ami. Furthermore, in 2009, Fedorchuk shared 1st place with Murtas Kazhgaleyev in the Paris City Chess Tournament, and he won the Nantes Open. Fedorchuk competed for his country in the 2013 European Team Chess Championship where he played on the reserve board.

Notable Achievements

In 2012 and 2014, he won the Paris Championship.

Fedorchuk finished 1st-8th in the 2013 Cappelle-la-Grande Open alongside Sanan Sjugirov, Parimarjan Negi, Maxim Rodshtein, Eric Hansen, Vlad-Cristian Jianu, Alexei Fedorov, and Yuri Vovk.

Fedorchuk shared first place with Baadur Jobava and Mikhailo Oleksienko in the David Bronstein Memorial in Minsk in February 2014, finishing second on deciding set.

Shortly after, Fedorchuk won the 2014 Vladimir Petrov Memorial, a sprint championship in Jrmala, Latvia.

Fedorchuk won the first Barreau de Paris Grandmaster in 2019 with a score of 7 points out of 9 games.

Notable Games

Fedorchuk vs Buhmann, 1999 1-0

So vs Fedorchuk, 2015 0-1

Fedorchuk vs Dorfman, 2015 1-0

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Sources

1. http://www.armchess.am/news06-8.htm
2. http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=3087
3. http://tournaments.chessdom.com/cappelle-la-grande
4. http://tournaments.chessdom.com/cappelle-la-grande
5. http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=5733
6. http://ratings.fide.com/tournament_report.phtml?event16=46263
7. http://www.chessdom.com/sergey-fedorchuk-convincing-winner-of-the-87th-paris-chess-championship/