The 80th Ukrainian Chess Championship will take place in Kiev (June 9-21, 2011)
After a long break the Ukrainian Chess Federation organizes the Final of the Ukrainian Chess Championship 2011 in the center of Kiev at the historical building “The Ukrainian House”. The Championship will be the strongest event in the history of the independent Ukraine.
Participants (ranked by the rating of 01.05.2011)
N Name ELO Federation
1 GM Ponomariov Ruslan 2754 UKR
2 GM Eljanov Pavel 2712 UKR
3 GM Efimenko Zahar 2701 UKR
4 GM Areshchenko Alexander 2694 UKR
5 GM Moiseenko Alexander 2679 UKR
6 GM Volokitin Andrei 2677 UKR
7 GM Korobov Anton 2660 UKR
8 GM Miroshnichenko Evgenij 2651 UKR
9 GM Kryvoruchko Yuriy 2640 UKR
10 GM Kovchan Alexander 2558 UKR
11 GM Vovk Yuri 2550 UKR
12 GM Vysochin Spartak 2529 UKR
Out of 12 participants of the round-robin event 3 grandmasters have the ELO rating higher than 2700 and 6 participants have the ELO rating higher than 2600. Therefore, the average rating is 2650,5, which corresponds to the 17th category and makes the event the strongest Championship ever in the history of independent Ukraine.
Games will be played in the center of Kiev at the hall “Kobzarska Svitlytsia” at “The Ukrainian House” (Kiev, European Square). Round starts at 14-00 CET (15-00 Ukrainian time), the last round (June 21) starts at 10-00 CET (11-00 Ukrainian time), the 16th of June will be a free day.
The official web-site in Ukrainian http://ukrchess.org.ua/turnir/ukr2011men_Kiev/index.html
(developed by Anatolij Yavorskiy and Anatoliy Lysenko)
The official Facebook page in English http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ukrainian-Chess-Championship-2011/179707742083541?sk=wall
(developed by Olena Boytsun)
Live games http://chesslaw.org.ua/80/ (rounds start at 14-00 CET, except the last round)
Schedule for the 9th of June 2011
16-00 Press-Conference at the inform-agency “Unian” (http://unian.net)
17-30 Group photo of players and officials near “The Ukrainian House”
18-00 Official opening of the Championship at the restaurant “Dnipro” (at the official hotel of the Championship, by invitation only).
Participants of the press-conference on the 9th of June 2011 are the following:
– Viktor Kapustin – President of the Ukrainian Chess Federation
– Ravil Safiullin – Head of the State Agency of Youth and Sport of Ukraine
– Ruslan Ponomariov – participant of the Ukrainian Chess Championship 2011, international grandmaster
– Geoffrey Borg – Chief Executive Officer, FIDE
This is a serious event.