Interesting story. :)
How I Beat a Grandmaster
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Cool story, bro
Jul 11, 2015
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#4
Did he walk off put of disappointment. He could be fibbing that he is a GM
Possibly this?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yury_Shulman OR maybe this one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yury_Dokhoian
Jul 12, 2015
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#7
I am not Russian but as far as I know 'Juri' is quite a common first name in Russia, so, given the number of Russian GMs and the number of Russian people in London, we can make great many guesses...
well played and good story......and I love chess and bridge in baker street......good luck with your chess
Jul 12, 2015
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#10
Fairly easy to find out. Send an email to The Bridge Shop asking the owner what Yuri's surname is. He should know or know someone who does.
It probably wasn't Yuri Averbakh, right?
Jul 12, 2015
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#12
After you beat him, his parting comment was, "Yu r y I don't play professionally any more." 
@AussieRookie hahahahahahaha
Congratulations!
bit his hand !
Curious? Did you make up the story?
Well done my boy!
Congratulations, I wish you had the game recorded for us to go over!
Hello fellow chess.com members! I have reached the greatest milestone of my entire chess career! I beat a chess grandmaster! Not because of time either, fair and square. I did win on time in the end but I was so far up materially by then, nor did he blunder because of time. Of course a topic like this comes with a long story! And a very intriguing mystery...
Last year I was in London visiting my grandma, while I was there I visited a shop on Baker Street dedicated to chess called the Bridge Shop.
While I was there buying chess books (I won't give any authors free marketing by listing any names, *cough* John Nunn *cough*) the storeowner told me about a chess grandmaster in town. He said how GM Yury plays chess every single day in Hyde Park with his friends. Of course wanting to get the mere chance of even speaking to a grandmaster exited me enough to go there the very same day. And sure enough there was GM Yury playing blitz chess in the park with his buddies using the system loser swaps out. I walked over to his table and asked, "Are you GM Yury?" and he replied, "Oh on, I've been found! *chuckle*" From that moment on we became friends. I awaited my turn to play him and...
*GM Yury is the one in the middle with the pink shirt
...got hopelessly demolished. After the game he told me, "You're bad but I was expecting this." Ouch!
But that was last year, this is this year. I got to go to London again this year and just returned a few days ago. Of course Hyde Park was on the top of my list... right behind feeding the birds. I did get to go to the park and thankfully in the time span of 1 year I had increased my official rating by 300+ points. Amazingly they were all still there, playing GM Yury blitz chess in the exact same spot with the system of loser swaps out. Surprisingly they all still remembered me, but I guess when you achieve GM you remember everything. 
When it came around my turn to play GM Yury I lost... and lost again the second time round. It was getting late in the day so I knew I would only get one more chance to play the GM this year so I decided to drop my chess coach thismic's advice about "safe, strong positional moves" to "all-out aggression". I remembered Bobby Fischer's quote about how a strong player can beat a grandmaster if he plays the Yugoslav. So I applied my attack to look like the Yugoslav against his extremely unorthodox opening. I then got to trap his rook in the middlegame which rattled him so much that I got an easy discovered attack in the endgame and he didn't even notice when he ran out of time while 8 points down. After the game he replied, "I need to go for a walk." then got up and just left. Remembering to stay humbled I shook his hand and said "good game" then celebrated with Chinese.
If you remember correctly I said story and mystery. The mystery is "who is this GM Yury??" Because he, his friends, and the chess shop all confirmed he was a chess grandmaster but I can not for the life of me find him anywhere on the Internet. All I have is the picture above. I know he's secretive, doesn't play chess on the Internet, only in the park. And I know some grandmasters don't even have their own Wikipedia pages. So after not posting a forum in years I thought I would turn to you... chess.com! Feel free to comment on the story or the mystery or even both!