Feb 172012
GM Yury Shulman
Chess Awards:
2011 and 2010 U.S. Championship Runner-up, 2009 World Team Championship: Silver, 2008 Chess Olympiad Bronze Medalist, 2008 U.S. Champion, 2006 U.S. Open Champion, T-1st World Open 2001, 1st: Montreal 2008
Yury Shulman achieved the Grandmaster title in 1995 and moved to the U.S. four years later to become one of the top American players
Shulman also coached the 2006 Women’s Olympiad team in Turin to an impressive fourth place finish. In 2008, Yury joined the men’s Olympic team and helped lead them to a fantastic bronze medal finish. Yury scored the final clutch win over Ukraine’s board four, Efimenko to clinch bronze.
Yury credits his excellent results in the past few years to his chess students. Yury has been teaching since he graduated from UTD. He also founded the organization Chess Without Borders.
Teaching has helped him see chess in a different way, and he even came up with opening novelties while working with his students. Some chess professionals only teach because of the financial reward, but Yury claims that even if he were rich, he’d still coach. To learn from Shulman, you can buy his book Chess! Lessons From a Grandmaster. (Read Elizabeth Vicary’s CLO review.)
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