Martyn Kravtsiv, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Martyn Kravtsiv

ukrainian chess player

Date of Birth: 26-Nov-1990

Place of Birth: Lviv, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine

Profession: chess player

Nationality: Ukraine

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About Martyn Kravtsiv

  • Martyn Kravtsiv (Ukrainian: ?????? ???????; born 26 November 1990) is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster.
  • He competed in the FIDE World Cup in 2013.
  • Kravtsiv was taught how to play chess on his sixth birthday by his father.
  • Later, he trained in a Lviv Chess Club.
  • 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.
  • In 2011, Kravtsiv won the 3rd Chennai Open.
  • The following year, he tied for 1st–5th with Pentala Harikrishna, Parimarjan Negi, Tornike Sanikidze and Tigran Gharamian in the Cappelle-la-Grande Open.
  • 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.
  • In 2016, Kravtsiv won the Riga Technical University Open edging out Hrant Melkumyan, Arturs Neiksans, Aleksey Goganov and Jiri Stocek on tiebreak score.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.

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