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V ZIGMONIK Open is a traditional chess festival for the Poltava region (and Ukraine in general), organized by the famous patron and chess enthusiast Volodymyr Zigmonik . Results 🏆 Pro Tournament This is not just a separate blitz, but part of a larger chess festival. The program usually includes: Tournament "A" (Open) — classical chess with FIDE rating calculation. Tournament "B" is a children's tournament. Blitz tournament - usually held as a final chord or a separate event on one of the days of the festival. 📍 Location City: Horishni Plavni (Poltava region). Traditional venue: City Palace of Culture and Creativity or the premises of the local chess club. ⚙️ Technical specifications (traditional for ZIGMONIK Open) Time control: 3 minutes + 2 seconds increment per move (or 5 minutes without increment, depending on the regulations of a particular year). System: Swiss, usually 9 or 11 rounds. Participants: The...

🏆 Results of the Ukrainian Championship 2025 (Draughts-100) Men Women Rapid-M Rapid-W Blitz-M Blitz-W Location: Ivano-Frankivsk Period: December 14 – 21, 2025 Chief judge: Kostyantyn Baltazhy The competition was held in three programs: classical, rapid and blitz. 1. Classic game (December 14–19) In the most prestigious discipline, the fight went on until the last round. Чоловіки: 🥇 Yuriy Bobkov (Zaporizhzhya region) — Champion of Ukraine . Scored 10 points out of 14 possible. 🥈 Matvei Kolesnikov (Mykolaiv region) — 9 points. 🥉 Rostislav Leszczynskiy (Kyiv) — 9 points. Жінки: 🥇 Olena Korotka (Dnipropetrovsk region) — Champion of Ukraine . She scored 9 points out of 12 possible. 🥈 Olga Baltazhy (Ivano-Frankivsk region) — 8 points. 🥉 Lyudmila Litvinenko (Zaporizhzhya region) — 7 points. 2. Rapid Play and Blitz (December 20–21) In short controls, the results were as follows: Rapid: In the men's event, the experienced Artem...

Blitz Final of the Year: Everything you need to know about the 2025 FIDE Blitz World Championship in Doha From December 25 to 31, 2025, the world's chess elite will gather in Doha, Qatar, for the epic season finale - the FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Championship 2025 . While the spotlight will be on a full week of intense play, the finale of the year traditionally belongs to the fastest and most unpredictable format - blitz. Blitz-Open Blitz-Women Rapid-Open Rapid-Women Location and Conditions Venue: The competition will be hosted by the state-of-the-art Sports and Events Complex, Qatar University in Doha, Qatar. Dates: The overall tournament will run from December 25 to 31, 2025 . It is during this period that the world champions in ...

Our dear friends, colleagues, players and most loyal spectators! We are standing on the threshold of the New Year, and this is the best moment to look back and thank those who make our project alive. This text is for you. All this year, we have watched incredible battles on black and white squares with you. Every comment you made, every game analyzed, and even every argument in the chat is what inspired us to work further. We sincerely thank you for being our viewers throughout this year. Without your support, without your excitement and intellectual curiosity, our site would be just a set of codes. You are the ones who breathe life into every piece on the board! What we want to wish you in the New Year: Strategic wisdom: May in life, as in the best games, you always see a few moves ahead. Unbreakable endurance: We wish to find a way out of any "zugzwang" and turn every difficult situation to our advantage. Bright victories: May each of your days end with ...

Ruslan Ponomarev: The Quiet Genius and the Persistence of the Ukrainian School Ruslan Olegovich Ponomarev (born 1983) is not a story of grand gestures, but of exceptional inner strength. He became the youngest FIDE World Champion at 18, but his true greatness lies in his quiet, pragmatic dedication to the game and his native Ukraine, which he has represented for over two decades. The prodigy from Horlivka Ruslan was born in Horlivka, and his chess career was phenomenal, but he was not a typical "star" teenager. His talent quickly turned into a record : at 14 years and 17 days he became the youngest grandmaster in the world. Behind this dry fact stood hours of dedicated work, often spent alone, concentrating on filigree technique. Even at a young age, he was marked not by a feverish attack, but by a mature, engineering reliability - a quality rare for a teenager. ...

Drawers Duel: World Cup Final-64 (2024-2025) IDF Results Men Women Ahead of the grand finale on December 25, 2025 in St. Petersburg, the 2024-2025 International Draughts Federation (IDF) Men's and Women's Draughts-64 World Cup is nearing its climax. The Road to the Final: Six Stages and 308 Participants The 2024-2025 World Cup season was a real marathon, bringing together 308 athletes from 18 countries around the world. Participants competed at six prestigious stages held in Turkey (Kemer, Alanya), Uzbekistan (Tashkent) and Mongolia (Ulaanbaatar). Each stage included separate programs, where athletes competed for valuable rating points that go towards the overall World Cup standings. The main goal of the competition , according to the IDF Regulations, is not only to identify the strongest...