Semen Isaakovich Dvoirys (; born 2 November 1958) is a Russian

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player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by

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in 1990.

Chess career

Dvoirys competed in the 1993 Interzonal tournament, held in

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. In 2000, he took part in the inaugural

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International tournament, a category 14

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, Russia: he scored 3½ points from 9 games, tying for 7th-8th places. In 2001, he tied for 1st–2nd places with Alexey Korotylev at

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Open. In 2010, he won the Izmailov Memorial tournament in

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, tied for 1st-5th places in the A2 group of the

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with Aleksei Pridorozhni,

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, Sergey Pavlov and Mikhail Panarin, and tied for 1st–4th with Sergei Yudin, Pavel Smirnov and Sergei Iskusnyh at

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. In 2011 he came first in the

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Memorial tournament in

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. Dvoirys played for the victorious team Russia 1 at the 2014 European Senior Team Chess Championship in

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. He scored 6½/9 playing on the . He competed at the

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Semen Dvoirys
team chess record at OlimpBase.org (Telechess Olympiad) 1958 births Living people Chess Grandmasters Russian chess players Soviet chess players Jewish chess players Competitors at the 2017 Maccabiah Games Maccabiah Games chess players Maccabiah Games competitors for Russia People from Zhmerynka {{Russia-chess-bio-stub