Dmitry Svetushkin facts for kids
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| Country | Moldova |
| Born | 25 July 1980 Moldavian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Died | 4 September 2020 (aged 40) Chișinău, Moldova |
| Title | Grandmaster (2002) |
| FIDE rating | 2515 (December 2024) |
Dmitry Svetushkin (Дмитрий Светушкин; Romanian: Dumitru Svetuşchin; 25 July 1980 – 4 September 2020) was a Moldovan chess player.
He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 2002; Svetushkin played for the Moldovan national team in the Chess Olympiad and the European Team Chess Championship.
In the 2014 Olympiad he achieved a rating performance of 2809, the fourth best on board two.
Honours
- He won the Moldovan Chess Championship in 2000.
- He tied for first with Johan Hellsten and Marcin Szymański in the Ikaros Chess Festival 2003.
- In 2007 he tied for 2nd–7th with Kiril Georgiev, Vadim Malakhatko, Mircea Pârligras, Hristos Banikas, and Dimitrios Mastrovasilis in the Acropolis International Tournament and tied for 3rd–9th with Pavel Smirnov, Vladimir Malakhov, Evgeny Vorobiov, Murtas Kazhgaleyev, Vladimir Dobrov, and Aleksej Aleksandrov in the 3rd Moscow Open tournament.
- In 2008 he won the 2nd Gap Open.
- In 2010 he tied for 1st–3rd with Yuriy Kryvoruchko and Alexander Zubarev at Palaiochora.
- In 2012 Svetushkin won the 2nd International Tournament Isthmia in Vrachati on tiebreak from Eric Hansen and Shyam Sundar, and the 17th Bora Kostić Memorial, a category 14 round-robin tournament in Vršac.
- In 2017, he finished second in the 19th Sants Open in Barcelona and won the 3rd Ceramica Corund Open on tiebreak from Benjamin Gledura.
Death
Svetushkin died in the evening at the age of 40 in Chișinău, Moldova. .....
See also
In Spanish: Dmitri Svetushkin para niños
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