Hello everybody, and welcome to a third article of the “Understanding Chess with Grandmaster Illia Nyzhnyk” series. In the last article, I talked about king safety, and what one should be looking for when making a decision on how...
Understanding Chess with GM Nyzhnyk: King Safety (2)
Hello everybody, and welcome to a second article of the “Understanding Chess with Grandmaster Illia Nyzhnyk” series. I would like to pick up where the previous article left off – how to hide your king properly and avoid getting...
Understanding Chess with GM Nyzhnyk – Introduction (1)
Hello everybody, and welcome to the “Understanding Chess with Grandmaster Illia Nyzhnyk”, a series of short chess articles. My goal for these articles is to show you fundamental chess principles with simple examples, something you can use as a...
Lenderman wins US Open, Nyzhnyk & 4 others tie for 2nd
Full standings: http://www.uschess.org/results/2017/usopen/?page=STANDINGS&xsection=usopen
Ukrainian Grandmaster puts team first
Ukrainian Grandmaster puts team first in Chess Finals By Mike Thomas | April 6th, 2017 Junior chess grandmaster Illia Nyzhnyk was among six players representing Webster University’s chess team in the President’s Cup tournament in New York. At a...
Webster U GM Illia Nyzhnyk Wins US National G/60 Championship
Last night, Webster University GM Illia Nyzhnyk won the US National g/30 Championship with 4.5/5! He also won the Blitz Championship with a perfect 7/7! Tonight he beat GM Ioan Chirila with black in the final round to win...
Webster U GM Illia Nyzhnyk wins US National g/30 Championship
Final standings (top 25) http://www.uschess.org/msa/XtblMain.php?201609245392.1-15477488 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pair | Player Name |Total|Round|Round|Round|Round|Round| Num | USCF ID / Rtg (Pre->Post) | Pts | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | ILLIA I NYZHNYK |4.5 |W...
Webster U GM Nyzhnyk wins US Open Blitz, Durarbayli 2nd
Final standings (top 50) No. Ttl Name St Rate Pts Rnd1 Rnd2 Rnd3 Rnd4 Rnd5 Rnd6 Rnd7 1 Nyzhnyk, Illia I MO 2748 13.0 W 85,2.0 W 16,2.0 W 9,2.0 W 5,2.0 W 2,1.5 W 4,2.0 W11,1.5 2 Durarbayli,...
SPICE dominates World Open – 4 team members tied for 1st
4 SPICE players, GMs Illia Nyzhnyk, Alex Shimanov, Vasif Durarbayli (all current members of Webster University Chess Team) and Gabor Papp (SPICE grown GM back in 2009-2010) tied for 1st at 2016 World Open. Papp won the playoff. Webster...
A Positional Masterpiece
[White “GM Kayden Troff-LV”] [Black “GM Illia Nyzhnyk-STL”] [Result “0-1”] [ECO “D45”] [WhiteElo “2619”] [BlackElo “2725”] 1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Nc3 e6 5. e3 Nbd7 6. a4 Bd6 7. a5 O-O 8. Be2...