♟Sundays with Unity♟
June 7th, 2020
Session 12

🥇GM Olexandr Bortnyk🥇

GM Olexandr Bortnyk is a Ukrainian chess player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 2015, at the age of 19.

He is considered a top blitz and bullet chess player.

Born: October 18, 1996 (age 23 years),

FIDE rating: 2598

2003 – Ukrainian U8 Champion.
2004– Ukrainian U8 Champion.
2008 – Ukrainian U12/U14 Champion
2009 – Ukrainian U14 Champion.
2010 – European U14 Champion
– Ukrainian U14 Champion.
2011 – Bronze Medal at the Ukrainian U18 Championship
– Ukrainian U16 Champion
– Blitz Marathon 8th Bridges of Ingul International Chess: 1st
– IV. Chess Tournament in Paleochora (U16): 1st
– European U16 Champion.
2012
– Ukrainian U18 Champion (Blitz)
– Silver Medal at the Ukrainian U18 Championship (Standard)
– Silver Medal at the Ukrainian U18 Championship (Rapid).
2013
– Ukrainian U20 Champion (Rapid)
– Ukrainian U20 Champion (Blitz)
– 1st at Dworkowitsch Cup
– 3rd at the 6th International Odessa Chess Festival.
2014 – World U18 Champion (Durban, South Africa)

The 2016 Vladimir Petrov Memorial blitz tournament in the Amber Beach resort (Jaunkemeri), Latvia.

119 players competed in the 11-round tournament with time control 3′+3”.

Ukrainian junior Olexandr Bortnyk took a clear first place with 9 points, half a point ahead of the local star Igor Kovalenko.

Dear all, we are sorry for the late. This time we had lots of challenges in our verifications. Three of the players failed and won’t be able to play in our tournaments anymore.

Also for the first time we got to some problems with the Country championship. Iran was first, but then we noticed one of the player’s account got closed by Lichess. Then we went to the second country India, the same thing happened here! We went to the next country! Russia got it! Russia 🇷🇺 won the $200 team prize!

Two countries went down because of two players whose accounts got closed by Lichess:

279. Mahdichess77 (IRI)

140. lifearound64squares (IND)

Unity Chess team is looking for a day that we don’t need to do any verifications for any players and no country goes down because of closed accounts.

Here are the results for week 12, June 7th, 2020:

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(Open)
1. GM Olexandr Bortnyk 2598 (UKR)
2. GM Alexey Sarana 2654 (RUS)
3. GM Parham Maghsoodloo 2676 (IRI)
4. GM Dmitry Andreikin 2726 (RUS)
6. GM M.Amin Tabatabaei 2629 (IRI)
7. FM Emin Ohanyan 2291 (ARM)
8. GM Arjun Erigaisi 2559 (IND)
9. GM Cristobal Henriquez Villagra 2600 (CHI)
10. IM Felix Jose Ynojosa Aponte 2393 (VEN)
11. GM Kirill Shevchenko 2592 (UKR)

(Women)
62. WGM Deysi Cori T. 2388 (PER)
89. WGM Alina Bivol 2386 (RUS)
96. WIM Divya Deshmukh 2305 (IND)

(U16)
5. GM Nihal Sarin 2620 (IND)
12. FM Khazar Babazada 2409 (AZE)

(U12)
91. Muhammadzohid Suyarov 1658 (UZB)
92. Reza Mahdavi 2124 (IRI)

(Senior)
120. GM Tair Vahidov 2401 (UZB)
162. IM Boris Abrashkin 2407 (RUS)

(U2400)
22. FM Kazybek Nogerbek 2328 (KAZ)
37. FM Kirill Klukin 2330 (RUS)

(U2300)
46. FM Isaac Valent Tello Chavez 2275 (MEX)
47. FM Alex Cuevas 2260 (ARG)

(U2200)
79. IM Gilbert Elroy Tarigan 2149 (INA)
88. Benyamin Babaniya 2187 (IRI)

(U2100)
39. Artin Ashraf 2075 (IRI)
66. Mohammadraza Abedi 2072 (IRI)

(U2000)
122. WCM Luisana Mujica Flores 1982 (VEN)
160. Masoud Talebi 1931(IRI)

(U1900)
102. Islombek Sindarov 1870 (UZB)
139. Rahul Verma 1875 (IND)

(U1800)
269. Rasool Vaziri 1799 (IRI)
315. Morteza Amirkhanlou 1744 (IRI)

(U1700)
241. Fardin Soltani 1647 (IRI)
243. Jain Tejash 1640 (IND)

(U1600)
250. Amir Reza Bakhtaki 1595 (IRI)
266. Srivastava Spandan 1557 (IND)

(U1500)
188. Temirlan Khassenov 1478 (KAZ)
270. WCM Wissal Hilali 1467 (TUN)

(U1400)
164. Sarzhanov Temirkhan 1312 (KAZ)
167. Arshia Alaghehmand 1396 (IRI)

(Unrated)
118. Naser Sharifi (AFG)
268. Guritno (INA)


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🥇🇷🇺RUSSIA🇷🇺🥇

Top 40 Russian Players who didn’t get main prizes:

15. IM Alexandr Ulanov 2463
16. GM David Paravyan 2653
18. GM Vladimir Fedoseev 2678
23. GM Maksim Chigaev 2588
24. GM Boris Grachev 2612
25. IM Saveliy Golubov 2468
28. GM Klementy Sychev 2572
30. GM Pavel Ponkratov 2631
32. GM Grigoriy Oparin 2652
43. GM Mikhail Kobalia 2614
51. GM Artur Gabrieleian 2463
53. GM Nikita Matinian 2475
59. IM Oleg Vastrukhin 2401
63. IM Viacheslav Mikhailov 2428
78. GM Kirill Alekseenko 2696
85. FM Konstantin Popov 2336
86. GM Dmitry Bocharov 2524
87. IM Maxim Lavrov 2421
94. GM Anton Demchenko 2641
98. IM Roman Kezin 2470
100. FM Artem Galaktionov 2319
110. GM Maxim Matlakov 2685
112. GM Alexander Morozevich 2659
125. IM Kirill Shubin 2429
137. WGM Aleksandra Maltsevskaya 2272
147. IM Oleg Badmatsyrenov 2437
151. IM Dmitry Svetlov 2358
170. GM Alexander Rustemov 2525
190. GM Andrei Belozerov 2493
214. FM Vasily Volovich 2177
220. GM Evgeny A. Levin 2505
221. WGM Elena Tomilova 2353
228. WIM Margarita Potapova 2270
237. IM Nikolai Vlassov 2352
238. IM Murzin Volodar 2438
247. FM Valery Skatchkov 2242
263. IM Nikolay Ogloblin 2346
273. GM Dmitriy Khegay 2528
274. IM Denis Pershin 2387
284. WFM Anastasiya Protopopova 2192

✅To receive your prizes, please contact GM Maksim Chigaev:
maximchigaev@gmail.com

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🎁Lucky Prizes🎁

50. IM Viktor Gazik 2502 (SVK)
100. FM Artem Galaktionov 2319 (RUS)
150. CM Mohammad Javad Khorshidi 2105 (IRI)
200. Mohammad Mahdi Alizadeh 1856 (IRI)
250. Amir Reza Bakhtaki 1595 (IRI)
300. FM Morteza Asgari 2183 (IRI)
350. FM Hernan Perelman 2263 (ARG)
400. FM Faber Alberto Narvaez 2098 (COL)
450. M Nisthar Abdallah 1676 (IND)
500. WFM Mayra Cabrera Ladron de Guevara 1967 (CUB)
550. IM Jorge Mario Clavijo 2309 (COL)
600. Haik Azizbekyan 1791 (ARM)
650. FM Igor Vakhlamov 2413 (RUS)
700. Kashyap Saouhridya Pran 1188 (IND)
750. Mohammad Mohammadian 1430 (IRI)
800. Mahdis Manoochehr Nokandi 1080 (IRI)

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Two world champions - Max Euwe (Netherlands) & Anatoly Karpov (USSR) are pictured with burgemeester I. Samkalden at the Krasnopolsky Hotel; Karpov was giving a simultaneous display there.

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"Capture of the adverse King is the ultimate but not the first object of the game."

🔸 Wilhelm Steinitz

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Fischer vs Gheorghiu Buenos Aires 1970, round 3.
Fischer destroyed the field with 15/17 (+13 -0 =4), 3.5 points ahead of the runner up Tukmakov 11.5/17 (+7 -1 =9).

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Tallinn, 1976. Vasily Smyslov, Iivo Nei, Boris Spassky & Mikhail Tal are seen analysing the late Paul Keres' game v. László Szabó from the Hungary v. USSR match, Budapest 1955, on the memorial day for the Estonian grandmaster.

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Paul Keres 🆚 Laszlo Szabo

HUN-URS (1955), Budapest HUN, rd 3, May-??
Sicilian Defense: Richter-Rauzer. Classical Variation (B64)

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