Daniil Yuffa

Daniil Yuffa
Full name Daniil Aleksandrovich Yuffa
Country Russia
Born 25 February 1997 (1997-02-25) (age 21)
Tyumen, Russia
Title Grandmaster (2016)
FIDE rating 2563 (October 2018)
Peak rating 2577 (June 2018)

Daniil Aleksandrovich Yuffa (Russian: Даниил Александрович Юффа; born 25 February 1997) is a Russian chess grandmaster.[1]

Chess career

Born in 1997, Yuffa earned his grandmaster title in 2016.[2]

In September 2017, Yuffa appeared on the Russia-1 talent show "Amazing People", playing three blindfold simultaneous games while performing classical music pieces on the piano.[3]

In February 2018, he participated in the Aeroflot Open. He finished forty-first out of ninety-two,[4] scoring 4½/9 (+2–2=5).[5] In March 2018, he competed in the European Individual Chess Championship. He placed thirteenth,[6] scoring 7½/11 (+5–1=5).[7]

References

  1. ↑ Méndez, Aleixandre. "El gran maestro ruso Daniil Yuffa se lleva el Ciudad de Pontevedra" (in Spanish).
  2. ↑ 87th FIDE Congress 2016, Baku, Azerbaijan FIDE
  3. ↑ WeiT Media (2017-09-24), «Удивительные люди». Даниил Юффа. Шахматист, retrieved 2018-06-09
  4. ↑ Staff writer(s) (28 February 2018). "Aeroflot Open 2018 A". Chess Results.
  5. ↑ Staff writer(s) (28 February 2018). "Aeroflot Open 2018 A: Yuffa Daniil". Chess Results.
  6. ↑ Staff writer(s) (28 March 2018). "European Individual Chess Championship 2018". Chess Results.
  7. ↑ Staff writer(s) (28 March 2018). "European Individual Chess Championship 2018: Yuffa Daniil". Chess Results.


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