The Ukrainian Championships took place in Kharkiv on 8-17 December 2021. The tournaments were nicely organized in the library of the Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University. Andrei Volokitin clinched first place in the open section by winning both his games in the two final rounds, while Kateryna Dolzhykova surprisingly got the gold in the women’s tournament. | Photos: Ukrainian Chess Federation
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Law Academy (Kharkiv) wins Ukrainian Team Championship
The Ukrainian Team Championship, a 7-round Swiss tournament took place in Lviv from May 6-12. The rating favourite, Law Academy (Kharkiv) stepped up to the plate and clinched the title with two rounds to spare.
The team headed by
Pavel Eljanov and
Yuriy Kuzubov bagged a brace winning all the matches in both classical and rapid events. The club was set up within the “Yaroslav the Wise National Law University” in 1998 and has since been the center of attraction for the student players.
The local team Bank Lviv beat Youth Ukraine in a critical last round match and leapfrogged the rival to earn silver. Chernivtsi Zubr (Chernivtsi) tied for third with Youth Ukraine and Lviv Chess Academy and took bronze thanks to better tiebreaks (a higher number of game points).
German club comes up aces in European chess clash Follow Us
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Turns out there’s no “I” in “mannschaft,” either.
That’s the German word for “team,” and it was a classic bit of teamwork that helped German chess club SF Deizisau to a surprise win in the recent European Club Cup championship, held as a rapid online event this year because of COVID-19 concerns.
There were some big names playing in the event including superGMs Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov and Jorden van Foreest and Deizisau top board GM Matthias Bluebaum struggled with a 2½-5½ result against some powerful competition.