The Ukrainian chess federation. Photo gallery

CHESS IN UKRAINE: Photogallery

Year 2000 Natalia Zhukova became European Chess Champion Ukrainian team won European Youth Chess Championship under 18 years old: 1. Anastasia Karlovich (Kharkov) 2. Tatiana Kostiuk (Chernigov) 3. Katerina Rohonyan (Nikolaev) 4. Pavel Eljanov (Kharkov) 5. Zahar Efimenko (Kramatorsk) 6. Alexander Zubov (Nikolaev) 7. Alexander Kovchan (Chernigov) 8. Alexander Areshchenko (Lugansk) Anna Muzychuk got the gold medal in The Youth European Championship under 10 years old.
Year 2001 National Ukrainian team was awarded The World Chess Champion Title: 1. Vassily Ivanchuk (Lviv) 2. Ruslan Ponomariov (Kramatorsk) 3. Vladimir Baklan (Kyiv) 4. Viacheslav Eingorn (Odessa) 5. Vadim Malakhatko (Kyiv) 6. Oleg Romanishin (Lviv) Ukrainian young masters became Gold Prizer in European Team Championship: 1. Kateryna Lahno (Kramatorsk) 2. Natalia Zdebskaya (Kramatorsk) 3. Nazar Firman (Lviv) 4. Anton Korobov (Kharkov) 5. Zahar Efimenko (Kramatorsk) 6. Alexander Areshchenko (Lugansk)
Year 2001 Ukrainian Rasing Chess Star Sergei Karyakin became The World Youth Champion under 14 years old. Vladimir Onishchuk (Ivano-Frankivsk), Kateryna Lahno (Kramatorsk) and Yuriy Kuzubov (Kramatorsk) won European Youth Championship.
Year 2002 Ruslan Ponomariov first in Ukrainian history became The World chess Champion. Prominent Ukrainian grandmaster Vassily Ivanchuk got the Vice-Champion title. Ukrainian youth team including Anna Ushenina (Kramatorsk), Katerina Rohonyan (Nikolaev) and Oksana Vozovik (Nikolaev) won European Team Championship under 18 years old. Maria and Anna Muzychuk became European Youth Champions under 10 and 12 years old.
Year 2003 Natalia Zhukova won the prestigious 'North Ural Cup' in The International Chess Tournament. All the strongest Russian women chessplayers and three European Champions: 2002 - Antoaneta Stefanova (BUL), 2001 - Almira Skripchenko (FRA) and 2000 - Natalia Zhukova (UKR) took part in the competition.
Year 2003 13-year old Kateryna Lahno headed the World top of girls in the 1st October FIDE Rating List. Anna Muzychuk became The European Chess Champion under 14 years old and Vladimir Onischuk - the silver prizewinner under 12 years old. Natalia Zdebskaja won a silver medal in The World Chess Championship under 18 years old.
Year 2003 13-year old Anna Muzychuk won the Ukrainian Woman Chess Champion title with a fantastic result - 8,5 (9). Evgenij Miroshnichenko won the Ukrainian Man Chess Championship.
Year 2004 The Ukrainian Chess Youth Championships winners: under 12 years old Denis Kharchenko (Chernigov); Maria Muzychuk (Lviv region). under 14 years old m Yuriy Kuzubov (Kramatorsk); Elena Ostroverhova (Kharkov). under 16 years old м Dmitry Kononenko (Dnepropetrovsk); nm Vita Chulivska (Lviv region). under 18 years old Mikhail Yarmysty (Chernovtsy); m Nataliya Hryhorenko (Lviv region); under 20 years old m Yuri Drozdovskij (Odessa); ng Anna Muzychuk (Lviv region).
Year 2004 Olga Alexandrova (Kharkov) was awarded Ukranian champion - 2004 gold medal.
Year 2004 Vassily Ivanchuk is The European Champion - 2004!
Year 2004 Alexander Areshchenko won the A.V. Momot Memory representative chess tournament in Kramatorsk. Several known chessplayers took part in the competition: g Gennadi Kuzmin, g Zahar Efimenko, Kateryna Lahno (all from Kramatorsk), g Yuri Kruppa (Kiev), g Michail Brodsky (Kharkov).