Tags: Chess Player.
Yuri Drozdovskij (born 22 May 1984 in Odessa) 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 (losing out on tie-break to Pavel Tregubov) 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.