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When Garry retired, Yury switched to coaching a pair of sisters, Nadezhda and Tatiana Kosintseva, who would go on to become the driving force behind the success of the Russian women’s chess team. They were also from the periphery the far north city of Arkhangelsk and paid tribute to their coach after his untimely death.
We began working with Yuri in 2005, when he arrived for a training session with us in snow-covered Arkhangelsk in winter, not fearing the -30 degrees cold. From that moment on, our perception of chess began to change drastically. Yuri opened up a whole new fascinating world for us, one whose existence we didn’t even suspect.