Martyn Kravtsiv
CountryUkraine
Born (1990-11-26) 26 November 1990
Lviv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
TitleGrandmaster (2009)
FIDE rating2598 (December 2023)
Peak rating2685 (March 2018)
Peak rankingNo. 59 (March 2018)

Martyn Kravtsiv (Ukrainian: Мартин Кравців; born 26 November 1990) is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster. He competed in the FIDE World Cup in 2013.

Career

Kravtsiv was taught how to play chess on his sixth birthday by his father. Later, he trained in a Lviv Chess Club.[1] In the 2008 World Mind Sports Games in Beijing, Kravtsiv won the gold medal in the men's individual blitz event. In 2010, he tied for 1st-6th places with Dmitry Kokarev, Alexey Dreev, Maxim Turov, Baskaran Adhiban and Aleksej Aleksandrov in the 2nd Orissa Open tournament in Bhubaneshwar.[2] In 2011, Kravtsiv won the 3rd Chennai Open.[3] The following year, he tied for 1st–5th with Pentala Harikrishna, Parimarjan Negi, Tornike Sanikidze and Tigran Gharamian in the Cappelle-la-Grande Open.[4] He tied for first with Andrei Volokitin and Zahar Efimenko in the 2015 Ukrainian Chess Championship, held in his native city of Lviv, finishing second on tiebreak.[5] In 2016, Kravtsiv won the Riga Technical University Open edging out Hrant Melkumyan, Arturs Neikšāns, Aleksey Goganov and Jiří Štoček on tiebreak score.[6]

In team events, Kravtsiv played for Ukraine in the 2006 U-16 Chess Olympiad, which was won by his team, and the World Team Chess Championship in 2017. He is 1st Gujarat open GM tournament 2018 champion.

Best tournament results: Andranik Margaryan Memorial 2013 - 1st place, Al Ain Chess Classic 2013 - 1-3, Lviv Vasylyshyn Memorial (2014) - 1st place, 8th OGD Prinsenstad 2015 - 1st place, 22nd Abu Dhabi Int. Chess Festival (2015) - 2nd place, Ukraine Men`s Final - 2015 - 2nd place, Al Ain Classic 2015 - 2-10, Riga Technical University Open 2016 - 1st place, 1st Sharjah Chess Masters 2017 - 1-5, Lake Sevan 2017 - 2nd place, 1st Gujarat international open (2018) - 1st place, Cap d'Agde chess (2018) - 3rd place.

Also was a coach of the Ukrainian National chess team during 42nd Chess Olympiad in Baku 2016 (silver medal) and 23rd European Team Chess Championship 2021 Archived 19 May 2022 at the Wayback Machine (gold medal).

Wrote a few chess books.

References

  1. ↑ "Grandmaster Interview with Martyn Kravtsiv and Game". Chess Videos, Chess DVDs, Chess Software and more. 3 December 2011. Retrieved 15 December 2017.
  2. ↑ "02nd Orissa Open Grandmaster TMT". FIDE. Retrieved 15 May 2011.
  3. ↑ Mihailov, Anton (27 January 2011). "Martyn Kravtsiv Wins Chennai Open 2011". FIDE. Retrieved 5 July 2017.
  4. ↑ Ramirez, Alejandro (12 March 2012). "Harikrishna tops 74 GMs in Cappelle-La-Grande". Chess News. ChessBase. Retrieved 13 March 2012.
  5. ↑ "GM Andrei Volokitin is the 2015 Ukraine Chess Champion". Chessdom. 14 December 2015. Retrieved 15 December 2015.
  6. ↑ "Riga Technical University Open 2016". The Week in Chess. Retrieved 5 July 2017.
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