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Leonid Yudasin

Russia

44

GM

2691

2547

77% (295.5/384)

$16,226

e4

Najdorf Sicilian

Nimzo-Indian/QID

2 Time World Championship Candidate - GM Leonid Yudasin

Leonid, who always seems to be in a cheerful mood, is a two time World Championship Candidate. His style is quite a bit more dynamic than Novikov’s. This leads to more victories, yet every so often he gets careless and lets a lower ranked player score on him. He likes to avoid the well trodden theoretical lines and often plays his own “pet” systems. You will often see him playing 3.Bc4 against the Sicilian and other positional anti-book variations. He always plays e4 and as is common these days among the top players, a strong supporter of the Najdorf Defense. Yudasin is the KING of this event, topping the money list as the only player to break $16,000 in total earnings. As of October 2004 Leonid is ranked number 5 in the USA.