sentences:  He has also won the first league of the USSR Championship (1987, 1989), the Israel Championship (1992, 1994, 1999), and the qualifying tournaments for the 1994 and 1995 PCA World Grand Prix.In 2000, he won the New York Open in its last edition.In 2001, he took the closed tournament at Dos Hermanas (together with Alexei Dreev).