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Leonid Grigoryevich Yudasin (Hebrew: ליאוניד גריגורייביץ’ יודסין; Russian: Леонид Григорьевич Юдасин; born in Leningrad August 8 1959) is a prominent chess grandmaster and trainer now living in New York City. Awarded the International Master title in 1982 he secured the grandmaster title in 1984 the year he became Leningrad Champion. Demonstrating that his skills were not just restricted to classical chess he went on to gain the USSR Cup for rapid chess in 1988.