Dear chess friends,
Round 1 results of the Ukrainian Chess Championship 2011 are the following
1 1 GM Miroshnichenko Evgenij 1 – 0 GM Vovk Yuri 12
2 2 GM Areshchenko Alexander ½ – ½ GM Volokitin Andrei 11
3 3 GM Ponomariov Ruslan 1 – 0 GM Korobov Anton 10
4 4 GM Eljanov Pavel ½ – ½ GM Moiseenko Alexander 9
5 5 GM Kryvoruchko Yuriy 1 – 0 GM Kovchan Alexander 8
6 6 GM Vysochin Spartak ½ – ½ GM Efimenko Zahar 7
Photos from the opening ceremony as well as the round are at http://www.facebook.com/UAChess2011#!/UAChess2011?sk=photos
They are for free press use (with the link to the Facebook page, please)
LIVE games at http://chesslaw.org.ua/80/
Official web-page (in Ukrainian) http://ukrchess.org.ua/turnir/ukr2011men_Kiev/index.html (developed by Anatolij Lisenko and Anatolij Yavorskiy)
Official Facebook page (in English) http://www.facebook.com/UAChess2011 (developed by Olena Boytsun)
The event page at Chess-results.com is http://www.chess-results.com/tnr51273.aspx?art=2&lan=11
Best,
Olena
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