For two days in Kyiv Polytechnic 120 students from the capital competed for the championship in fast chess – blitzes and rapids. The tournament brought together not just amateurs, but a powerful line-up of chess players – masters of sports, FIDE masters, candidates for master of sports and first-rate chess players, so in each of the seven individual and team rounds, there was a fierce struggle at the chessboard and the intrigue remained until the last match. The victory went to the strongest – the team of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, which scored 208 points!
🥇 First place (blitz)
Ulyana Yeshchenko Educational and Research Institute of Nuclear and Thermal Energy (Institute of IATE)
🥈II place (blitz)
Nazar Laptiy Educational and Research Institute of Applied and Systems Analysis ( Institute of IАSA)
🥉III place (blitz) Kravets Yulia Faculty of Chemical Technology (HTF)
🏆Team (first place)
Nazar Laptii (Educational and Research Institute of Applied and Systems Analysis, ER IASA)
Pavlo Goncharov (Faculty of Informatics and Computer Science, FIOT)
Parfenov Hleb (Faculty of Radio Engineering, RTF)
Yeshchenko Ulyana (Educational and Research Institute of Nuclear and Thermal Energy, Institute of IATE)
Kravets Yulia (Faculty of Chemical Technology, HTF)
Drobot Kira (Faculty of Applied Mathematics, FPM)
Ryakhin Oleksandr (Faculty of Applied Mathematics, FPM)
Artem Tityanyuk (Faculty of Informatics and Computer Science, FIOT)
‘The level of the tournament has increased significantly compared to last year, but we were confidently going to win. The key to the leadership of our team is in cohesion, perseverance and readiness to always help each other,’ Ulyana Yeshchenko, student of the Educational and Research Institute of Nuclear and Thermal Energy (Institute of IATE) of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, captain of the chess team
The partners of the championship organisers were the Chess Federation of Ukraine, the Committee for Physical Education and Sports of the Ministry of Education and Science and famous KPI alumni.
‘Chess is the development of intelligence, memory, the development of the ability to see two, five, seven moves ahead. It is a great tool for human development. I have loved it since childhood, and I fell in love with computer games later. The first Cossacks is already a real-time strategy, like chess, but in real time,’ says Serhii Hryhorovych, a graduate of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, founder of GSC Game World, developer of the Cossacks and S.T.A.L.K.E.R. computer games.
The next competition for the title of Ukrainian chess champion among students will be held in 2025 in Lviv, so we wish our chess players to prepare adequately and win the championship title once again!