Yuri Vovk


Yuri Bogdanovich Vovk is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster from Lviv. He was trained by Vladimir Grabinsky, coach of the Ukrainian youth team.

Career

In 2007 he was joint winner with Li Chao and G. N. Gopal at the category 12 Lake Sevan round-robin tournament in Martuni, Armenia.
He was awarded the grandmaster title in 2008.
In February 2009 he shared first place in the Cappelle-la-Grande Open in France with Sanan Sjugirov, Parimarjan Negi, Maxim Rodshtein, Sergey Fedorchuk, Eric Hansen, Alexei Fedorov, and Vlad-Cristian Jianu, ahead of 106 Grandmasters and 76 International Masters, scoring 7.5 points out of 9. In 2013 he finished equal first, placing eighth on tiebreak.
Other tournament results:
Vovk finished fifth at the 2015 European Individual Chess Championship in Jerusalem, scoring 7.5/11. This result enabled him to qualify for the Chess World Cup 2015, where he knocked out Ray Robson in the first round. In round two he was eliminated by Wei Yi in the blitz tiebreak games.
He is the older brother of Andrey Vovk.