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Dmitry Kokarev - chess player

Country Russia
Born 18 February 1982
Penza, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Title Grandmaster
Peak rating 2650 (July 2014)

Dmitry Kokarev (Russian: Дмитрий Кокарев; born 18 February 1982 in Penza) is a Russian chess Grandmaster (2007).

Chess career

Kokarev won the U-18 World Youth Chess Championship in 1999 in Oropesa del Mar, Spain. In 2009, he tied for 1st-8th with Sergey Volkov, Igor Lysyj, Aleksandr Rakhmanov, Valerij Popov, Denis Khismatullin, Dmitry Andreikin and Dmitry Bocharov in the Voronezh Open tournament. In 2010, he won the Mumbai Mayor's Cup chess tournament and tied for 1st-6th with Maxim Turov, Alexey Dreev, Martyn Kravtsiv, Baskaran Adhiban and Aleksej Aleksandrov in the 2nd Orissa Open tournament in Bhubaneshwar. In 2013 Kokarev tied for 1st-11th with Pavel Eljanov, Maxim Matlakov, Alexander Areshchenko, Denis Khismatullin, Oleg Korneev, Dragan Solak, Vadim Zvjaginsev, Sanan Sjugirov, Ivan Bukavshin and Ildar Khairullin in the Chigorin Memorial in Saint Petersburg. In 2014 he won the 10th Ugra Governor's Cup in Khanty Mansiysk.

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