Dmitry Olegovich Jakovenko (; born 29 June 1983) is a Russian

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player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by

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in 2001. Jakovenko was European champion in 2012. He was a member of the gold medal-winning Russian team at the 2009

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and at the

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s of 2007 and 2015.

Chess career

Jakovenko learned chess from his father at the age of three years and was later coached by

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's former trainer Alexander Nikitin. In 2001 he won the Under 18 section of the

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s and the Saint-Vincent Open. Jakovenko tied for first place in the Russian Championship Superfinal 2006, but lost the playoff against Evgeny Alekseev, got second place at Pamplona 2006/2007, Corus B Group 2007, and

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2007. He finished first in the

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International Tournament ( pl) in

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, Russia in 2007, 2012 and 2018. In the July 2009

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Jakovenko became the fifth highest rated chess player in the world and overtook

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as the number one Russian (Kramnik regained the position in September that year). In the same month Jakovenko competed at the

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, finishing shared second with

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and

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, fourth on tiebreak, with a score of 5½/10, one point behind Kramnik. Jakovenko won the 2012

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with a score of 8½/11 points. He won the Russian Cup knockout tournament in 2013, 2014, 2016 and 2017. In December 2014, Jakovenko took second place, behind

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, in the Superfinal of the 67th Russian championship in

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. In 2015 Jakovenko tied for first place with

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in the last stage of the

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series, held in Khanty Mansyisk, scoring 6½/11 points. He took first place on tiebreak and placed third in the Grand Prix overall standings with 310 points. In November 2017 Jakovenko shared first place with

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in the last leg of the FIDE Grand Prix 2017 series, which took place in

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, taking first place on tiebreak. In 2018, Jakovenko tied for 1st - 2nd place in the Superfinal of the 71st Russian championship in

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. He lost the rapid playoffs to

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and finished in second place.

Notable chess games

Evgeny Najer vs Dmitry Jakovenko, Russian Championship Superfinal 2006, Nimzo-Indian Defense: Romanishin Variation, English Hybrid (E20), 0-1Dmitry Jakovenko vs Emil Sutovsky, 8th Poikovsky Karpov Tournament 2007, Spanish Game: Open Variations, Main Lines (C80), 1-0Vugar Gashimov vs Dmitry Jakovenko, Elista Grand Prix 2008, Caro-Kann Defense: Classical Variation, Main lines (B18), ½-½

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