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Good tournament is traditional one! What a pleasure it is to play for example in Cappelle la Grande or Pardubice! But Lviv isn't an exception too! Facing the troubles and problems we bring our tradition through the time and are happy to announce the 7th Lviv Chess Festival "Vasylyshyn Memorial"  that will take place in Lviv in period of 23 November - 1 December.

 This year me and Vita Chulivska decided to visit Greece again. First, I played at Greek team championship for Chania chess Academy, and then both of us took part at open tournaments in Crete.

Some video episodes from Mainz.

Amazing video with World Champion A.Kosteniuk.

A few days ago I came back from Spain. Now I decided to share my impressions with you. I took second place in IV TORNEO INTERNACIONAL A.D.SAN JUAN – PAMPLONA and visited Madrid and Barcelona. The story won’t be long – I will just tell where I was and what I saw.

 Anna Muzychyk, with rating 2527, is now 8th ranked in the world. Only 7 positions separate her from the top! It is high time to ask this nice sportswoman, Lviv citizen and just a beautiful girl a few questions. To tell the truth, one answer really excited me...

Interview with legendary Ukrainian grandmaster Oleg Romanishin by Angelmann, courtesy of www.Scacchierando.net. I hope that a few relevant pictures and games I added, will enrich the original. Highly recommended!

Summer is a time, when people pack thinks for vacations and take sun bathes. For chess players it is hot tournament time. Here I will describe tournament lists and links, where our guys are going to heat up their opponents.

At first I thought I'm going to translate the whole trilogy, but I will refrain from doing so - it would just take me too much time. Instead, I translated my comments of the games with two other foreign participants, as well as the short closing ceremony part. I hope some people will still find it interesting, despite the time passed.

It's rare when all the experiences during a trip are so pleasant that you cannot tell which one you enjoyed the most. However, this is exactly the case with my trip to Lviv - I enjoyed the chess and the non-chess part equally. I hope you will find my story detailed enough and yet interesting.

Communication via internet is like watching football on TV. It seems comfortable, but lacks emotions that you feel on stadium. That's why I am happy, that my friends come to meet without monitors, play chess and visit my adorable Lviv.

“Royal residence cup” takes place in period of 8-16 June. “A” and “B” tournaments take place. A tournament is IM round robin for 10 players with 4 countries represented (Sweden, France, Slovakia and Ukraine). “B” tournament is round robin for 10 players organized for local players.

In his 13 years Ilia Nyzhnyk already achieved the grandmaster's rating - 2544. He managed to score 7,5 out of 9 and achieved performance of 2741 in main "A" tournament in Groningen. So let me introduce you the prodigy from Vinnitsa.

Hi everybody! I just came back from the "Young World Starts" tournament in the town of Kirishi in Leningrad Region of Russia. I want to tell you about my impressions from a tournament and show some interesting fragments from my games.

Resistance of elite players is really high. It's really hard to force them to resign. Winning as Black over 2700+ player is harder task than notorious "pulling hippopotamus out of the marsh. The more pleasant is that Mikhailo Oleksienko got out of his eminent opponent's preparation swamp with honor. And after in the complicated play even managed to beat the participant of Linares 2010 Vugar Gashimov.

Review about 12th DUBAI OPEN CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP and its winners. The article also includes many photos, a lecture on "Modern way to play openings" and the impressions of the eyewitness.