He added individual bronze and team gold medals the same year, at the Chess Olympiad in Novi Sad, when he represented the USSR and registered the best performance of any of his teammates.

His best international tournament success occurred at León in 1993, where he won ahead of Alexey Vyzmanavin, Veselin Topalov, Anatoly Karpov and a young Peter Leko.

Since 2002, he has spent most of his time in New York, dominating the weekly Masters' tournament (top money winner), along with the likes of Hikaru Nakamura, Jaan Ehlvest, and the late Aleksander Wojtkiewicz.

His former students include Varuzhan Akobian, Irina Krush, Jennifer Shahade, Adam Maltese, Dylan McClain, Evan Rabin and the late Lembit Oll.

[citation needed] Leonid Yudasin is a practicing Orthodox Jew, living in Brooklyn, New York.