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Leonid Yudasin

Leonid Yudasin is a Soviet-born Israeli chess grandmaster and trainer who won the Israeli championship in 1994 and 1996.

born 1959Israeli chess champion 1994 and 19961990 Olympiad gold with USSRCandidates Tournaments 1991 and 1994Directing the Brooklyn Chess Academy

Born: 8 August 1959, Saint Petersburg
Occupation: chess player
Education: Peter the Great Saint Petersburg State Polytechnical University

Leonid Yudasin was born in 1959 in Saint Petersburg

Leonid Yudasin was born on August 8, 1959, in Leningrad. He was the only child of secular Jewish parents. By profession he is an electrical engineer.

He became an International Master in 1982 and won the Leningrad championship in 1984. In 1990 he was a joint winner of the USSR Championship and earned the Grandmaster title. That year he won team gold and individual bronze for the USSR at the Chess Olympiad in Novi Sad.

He played in the Candidates Tournament in 1991 and 1994, and lost to Vladimir Kramnik in the 1994 quarterfinals. He moved to Israel in 1992 and settled in Beersheba, where he began to become religious. He won the Israeli championship in 1994 and 1996 and played for Israel at two Olympiads.

In 2001 he moved to the United States and settled in an Orthodox community in Brooklyn. He directs the Brooklyn Chess Academy and tied for first at the U.S. Masters in 2002. He published a Russian book on chess history in 2004 and a book of poems in 2007.