Semen Dvoirys

Semen Dvoirys
Full name	Semyon Isaakovich Dvoirys
Country	Russia
Born	2 November 1958 Zhmerynka, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union[1][2]
Title	Grandmaster (1990)
FIDE rating	2549 (April 2016)
Peak rating	2615 (October 2004)

Semyon Isaakovich Dvoirys^[1] (Russian: Семён Исаакович Двойрис; born 2 November 1958) is a Russian chess Grandmaster.

In 2000, he took part in the first Karpov Poikovsky Tournament, a category 14 round-robin tournament: he scored 3.5 points out of 9 games, tying for the seventh place.^[3]

In 2001, he tied for 1st–2nd with Alexey Korotylev at Geneva Open.^[4] In 2010, he won the Izmailov Memorial in Tomsk^[5] and tied for 1st–4th with Sergei Yudin, Pavel Smirnov and Sergei Iskusnyh at Pavlodar.^[6] In 2011 he came first in the Lev Polugaevsky Memorial in Chelyabinsk.^[7]

Dvoirys helped Russia 1 team to win gold at the 2014 European Senior Team Chess Championship in Sibenik, scoring 6.5/9 on first board.^[8]

Notable games

• Yuri Balashov vs Semen I Dvoirys, EUCup, 1991, English Opening: King's English Variation (A25) 1/2-1/2
• Semen I Dvoirys vs Yakov Meister, URS-ch58 1991, Spanish Game: Bird Variation (C61) 1-0

References

1. ДВОЙРИС Семен Исаакович (in Russian). book-chel.ru. Retrieved 2015-08-17.
2. Wall, Bill. "Brief notes on the history of chess". chess-poster.com. Retrieved 2015-08-17.
3. "Karpov Poikovsky 2000 crosstable" Check |url= value (help) (in Russian). Retrieved 2015-08-28.
4. "Archive. Tournament report July 2001". World Chess Federation. Retrieved 4 May 2011.
5. "14. P.Izmailov Memorial 2010". FIDE. Retrieved 4 May 2011.
6. "Pavlodar-open 2010". FIDE. Retrieved 4 May 2011.
7. "Lev Polugaevsky Memorial". Chessdom. Retrieved 15 July 2011.
8. "European Senior Team Championship 2014". Chess-Results. Retrieved 2015-08-17.

External links

• Semen Dvoirys player profile and games at Chessgames.com