The little town of Alushta (Crimea) has once again hosted the Ukrainian Team Championship, which was won by the team “PVK Kievchess” for the third time in a row. This year Ivanchuk was missing from the championship, but again Ruslan Ponomariov, Alexander Areschenko, Alexander Moiseenko, Evgenij Miroshnichenko and more than 30 GMs took part. The youngster Illja Nyzhnyk, who increased his rating to 2499, played for a second time for “PVK Kievchess”.
Eleven teams took part in the competition, with a new team from Lugansk named “PGMB” entering the Ukrainian Team Championship for the first time. The tournament consisted of two semifinals (six and five teams). The first three places of each semifinal proceeded to the final. The results between the teams from the semifinals were taken to the final. “PVK Kievchess” started their path to victory scoring 24 points in 24 games in a semifinal.
# |
Team | wins |
b-pts |
1 |
PVK Kiev Chess | 9 |
23.0 |
2 |
PGMB Lugansk | 9 |
20.5 |
3 |
Law Academy Kharkov | 5 |
16.5 |
4 |
Rivnensky Zybry | 4 |
10.0 |
5 |
Stara Gvardiya Kiev | 2 |
9.0 |
6 |
Zakhid Resurs Lviv | 1 |
10.5 |
Alushta a little town on the Crimean peninsula in the northern part of the
Black Sea
The town was founded in the sixth century AD by Emperor Justinian. It is located amongst the most romantic Crimean mountains: Roman-Kosh, Chatyr-Dag, Demerdji. Alushta is a unique climatic health resort with mild subtropical climate, great number of sunshine hours (2250 per year) and a long swimming season (from June till October). A number of Ukrainian tournaments have been taken place there.
A view of the sea in Alushta
The famous Seafront Rotunda
“PVK Kievchess” plays against the new team from Lugansk “PGMB”
The match for the first place between “PVK Kievchess” and “PGMB Lugansk” ended 3:3. Alexander Onishuk from USA lost to Sergey Azarov from Belarus and Evgeniy Miroshnichenko helped to save the match defeating Alexander Zubov. This year Ruslan Ponomariov came back to the “PVK Kievchess” replacing Sergey Karjakin.
The “Law academy” team from Kharkiv took third place this year
The players from “Law academy” lost important match in the semifinal
to “PGMB”,
and with it their chance to fight for the first place.
The only female player, WIM Vita Chulivska from “Western resources”
facing GM Alexander Zubarev from “PGMB”
Twelve-year-old Ukrainian talent Illja Nyzhnyk playing for “PVK Kievchess”
GM Alexander Areschenko scored 6.0/7 with a 2770 performance
GM Alexander Onischuk from the USA, 4.5/6, performance 2717
GM Alexander Moiseenko, the lead player of the “Law Academy”,
came directly from the ASP World Rapid to help his team
The current Ukrainian champion GM Evgenij Miroshnichenko
scored 6.0/7 (performance 2820) and an important victory in the last round
. GM Dmitriy Andreykin from Russia, first board of the new team “PGMB”
GM Alexander Beliavsky from “PVK Kievchess” made 5.5/6 (performance:
2839) and won an important game against GM Mikhail Brodsky in the match between
“Kievchess” and “Law academy”.
GM Yaroslav Zinchenko from “PGMB”
GM Dmitry Kononeko from “PGMB”, with 4.5/6
The youngest participant and Ukraine U10 Champion Vetoshko
Volodymyr from “Western resources”
Vladimir Grabinskiy, creator of the Lviv youth chess school
Always a smile: GM Firman Nazar from “Law academy”
GM Spartak Vysochyn playing for “PVK Kievchess”...
…while his daughter Milana enjoys a game on the side of the playing
hall
Young star Illya Nygnyk kibitzes games during his free day
Ukrainian Champions “PVK Kievchess”
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