GM Andrei Volokitin is the 2015 Chess Champion of Ukraine. The tournament was held in Lviv from the 3rd of December to the 14th of December 2015. Volokitin won over GM Martin Krastiv (2nd place) and GM Zahar Efimenko (3rd place) on tiebreakers, after all three player had accumulated 7 out of 11 points.
The Ukraine Chess Championship featured 12 Ukranian GMs that competed for the title; winner Andrei Volotkin was seeded only 7th, but managed to secure a victory in the 11 round Round Robin tournament.
Final Standings
1 GM Volokitin Andrei 2628 7.0
2 GM Kravtsiv Martyn 2623 7.0
3 GM Efimenko Zahar 2647 7.0
4 GM Sivuk Vitaly 2552 6.0
5 GM Areshchenko Alexander 2677 6.0
6 GM Kovchan Alexander 2583 6.0
7 GM Kuzubov Yuriy 2640 6.0
8 GM Kryvoruchko Yuriy 2711 5.5
9 GM Fedorchuk Sergey A. 2641 4.5
10 GM Muzychuk Mariya 2561 4.0
11 GM Zubarev Alexander 2548 4.0
12 GM Neverov Valeriy 2516 3.0
Ukranian Chess Champions 1924 – 2015
Year | Winner |
2015 | Andriy Volokitin |
2014 | Yuriy Kuzubov |
2013 | Yuriy Kryvoruchko |
2012 | Anton Korobov |
2011 | Ruslan Ponomariov |
2010 | Sergey Pavlov |
2009 | Volodymyr Jakymov |
2008 | Yevhen Miroshnychenko |
2007 | Valeriy Aveskulov |
2006 | Zakhar Yefymenko |
2005 | Oleksandr Areschenko |
2004 | Andriy Volokitin |
2003 | Yevhen Miroshnychenko |
2002 | Anton Korobov |
2001 | Oleksandr Berelovych |
2000 | Volodymyr Rohovski |
1999 | Hennady Kuzmin , Alexei Bezgodov , Stanislav Savchenko , Oleksandr Moiseyenko, Andriy Rakhmangulov |
1998 | Lubomyr Mykhailets , Volodymyr Baklan , Oleh Berezin |
1997 | Volodymyr Baklan |
1996 | Mykhailo Holubiev & Valery Neverov |
1995 | Serhiy Kryvosheya |
1994 | Yuri Kruppa |
1993 | Orest Grytsak |
1992 | Vladyslav Borovikov |
1991 | Vitali Golod |
1990 | Mykhailo Brodsky |
1989 | Ihor Novikov, Hennady Kuzmin |
1988 | Valery Neverov |
1987 | Viktor Moskalenko |
1986 | Volodymyr Malaniuk |
1985 | Valery Neverov |
1984 | Mykhailo Hurevych |
1983 | Dmytro Komarov, Valery Neverov |
1982 | Kostiantyn Lerner |
1981 | Volodymyr Malaniuk |
1980 | Volodymyr Malaniuk |
1979 | Volodymyr Okhotnyk |
1978 | Kostiantyn Lerner |
1977 | Yuri Nikolayevsky |
1976 | Mykhailo Pidhayets |
1975 | Oleksandr Vaisman |
1974 | Lev Alburt |
1973 | Lev Alburt |
1972 | Lev Alburt |
1971 | Yuri Kots |
1970 | Volodymyr Tukmakov |
1969 | Hennady Kuzmin, Volodymyr Savon |
1968 | Yuri Sakharov |
1967 | Valery Zhydkov, Yuri Nikolayevsky |
1966 | Yuri Sakharov |
1965 | R. Goldstein |
1964 | Anatoly Bannik |
1963 | Yuri Nikolayevsky |
1962 | Leonid Stein |
1961 | Yuri Kots |
1960 | Leonid Stein |
1959 | Yukhym Heller |
1958 | Yukhym Heller |
1957 | (Salo Flohr) , Yukhym Heller |
1956 | Isaac Lipnitsky |
1955 | Anatoly Bannik |
1954 | Abram Khavin |
1953 | Yakiv Yukhtman |
1952 | Vladlen Zurakhov |
1951 | Anatoly Bannik |
1950 | Yukhym Heller |
1949 | Isaac Lipnitsky |
1948 | Alexey Sokolsky |
1947 | Olexiy Sokolsky |
1946 | Anatoly Bannik |
1945 | Anatoly Bannik |
1944 | Borys Goldenov |
1940 | Isaac Boleslavsky |
1939 | Isaac Boleslavsky |
1938 | Isaac Boleslavsky |
1937 | Fedir Bohatyrchuk |
1936 | Yosyp Pohrebyssky, Petro Shumilin |
1933 | Vsevolod Rauzer, Volodymyr Kirillov |
1931 | Abram Zamikhovsky |
1928 | Yakiv Vilner, Volodymyr Kirillov |
1927 | (Olexiy Selezniov), Vsevolod Rauzer |
1926 | Borys Verlinsky, Mykhailo Marski |
1925 | Yakiv Vilner |
1924 | Yakiv Vilner |
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