Ilia Iljiushenok | |
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Country | Russia (until 2023) FIDE (since 2023) |
Born | 16 August 1993 |
Title | Grandmaster (2018) |
FIDE rating | 2506 (May 2025) |
Peak rating | 2567 (October 2022) |
Ilia Iljiushenok (born 1993) is a Russian chess grandmaster. [1] [2]
He has represented his country in the 2010 Chess Olympiad, and played in the Chess World Cup 2015, being defeated by Dmitry Jakovenko in the first round.[ citation needed ]
Luke McShane wrote in the January 2024 issue of The Spectator , "Iljiushenok’s brilliancy reminded me of a famous combination, played by a young Botvinnik, almost two decades before he became world champion in 1948." [3]