Vasily Yemelin (born 1 February 1976) is a Russian

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player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by

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in 1994. Yemelin won the championship of Saint Petersburg three times, in 1993, 2002 and 2011. He participated in two

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s, in

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and

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, playing for Russia B team on both occasions. In 1994 he won the team bronze medal.

Chess career

Yemelin won the Wichern Open in 1999.He won the

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Open in 2001. In February 2007, he shared first place with Evgeny Najer in the Moscow Open scoring 7½/9 points. He finished second on tiebreak score. One month later, Yemelin finished tied for first place with Wang Yue, Vugar Gashimov, David Arutinian and Yuri Drozdovskij in the Cappelle-la-Grande Open scoring 7/9 points. He ended in sixth place on tiebreak. In 2009, Yemelin shared first place with

Alexey Dreev Alexey Sergeyevich Dreev (, also transliterated as Aleksey or Alexei; born 30 January 1969) is a Russian chess player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster (chess), Grandmaster by FIDE in 1989. Career While being a promising young chess talent, ...

in the Paul Keres Memorial Tournament in

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, Estonia, held with the rapidplay time control."Paehtz, Yemelin and Dreev Victorious at Paul Keres Memorial"
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* * * * 1976 births Living people Russian chess players Chess Grandmasters Chess Olympiad competitors Chess players from Saint Petersburg {{Russia-chess-bio-stub