Dmitry Svetushkin (; ; 25 July 1980 – 4 September 2020) was a Moldovan

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player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by

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in 2002. He won the

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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

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, Mircea Parligras, Hristos Banikas, and Dimitrios Mastrovasilis in the

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International Tournament and tied for 3rd–9th with Pavel Smirnov, Vladimir Malakhov, Evgeny Vorobiov,

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, Vladimir Dobrov, and

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in the 3rd Moscow Open tournament. In 2008 he won the 2nd Gap Open. In 2010 he tied for 1st–3rd with

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and

Alexander Zubarev Alexander Volodymyrovych Zubarev (, ''Oleksandr Volodimirovich Zubarev''; born 17 December 1979) is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster (2002). In 2008 he tied for 4–8th with Tamaz Gelashvili, Anton Filippov, Constantin Lupulescu and Nidjat Ma ...

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. In 2012 Svetushkin won the 2nd International Tournament Isthmia in

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on tiebreak from Eric Hansen and Shyam Sundar, and the 17th Bora Kostic Memorial, a category 14

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. In 2017, he finished second in the 19th Sants Open in

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and won the 3rd Ceramica

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Open on tiebreak from

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. Svetushkin played for the Moldovan national team in the

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and the

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. In the 2014 Olympiad he achieved a rating performance of 2809, the fourth best on board two. Dmitry Svetushkin died on 4 September 2020.

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