Yuri Drozdovskij
Yuri Drozdovskij is a Ukrainian chess Grandmaster.
He won the European Rapid Championship in 2006 and tied for first place at Cappelle-la-Grande in 2007.
Drozdovskij was equal first at the 4th Pivdenny Bank Cup 2008, a rapid tournament held annually in Odessa. This was an outstanding result, as he finished ahead of Boris Gelfand, Ruslan Ponomariov, Anatoly Karpov and Viktor Korchnoi. In 2009 he was a member of the bronze medal-winning Ukrainian team at the European Team Chess Championship.
His current Elo rating is 2614.Since 2009 Yuri Drozdovskij is married to Ukrainian chess grandmaster Natalia Zdebskaya.
