Team Ukraine Jacob Yuhtman online Memorial

From January 1st to February 10th, 2019, 86 players from Ukraine, India, and the USA gathered on the digital battlefields of Chess.com (Team Ukraine club) for a massive blitz marathon.

The time control was a sharp 5+2 — blink and you lose!

We weren't just playing for glory. The winner took home the rare book Yakov Yuhtman by A. Vayner and O. Tobak, while special commemorative Team Ukraine badges were awarded as congratulatory prizes.

It started with a grueling qualifying stage across 8 groups. Only the top three survivors from each group advanced. Then, the plot thickened: 2300+ rated monsters, titled players, and former "Hall of Fame" champions dropped into the bracket to shake things up

By the quarterfinals, only the heavyweights were left standing. Every match was a thriller, and the regulation 6 games often weren't enough to settle the score.

The highlight? An absolute nail-biter between Arthur Sevosteyenko (Zaporizhzhia) and Serhiy Franchuk (Lviv). They needed six overtime games to find a winner. Eventually, the "Zaporizhzhian Cossack" Sevosteyenko snatched victory (7-5). 

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List of winners:

1 place - Viktor Sklyarov @viktorskliarov, International Master, Kyiv.
2 place - Yevgeny Sharapov @evgenysharapov, Grandmaster, Hola Prystan, Ukraine.
3 place - Alexander Matlak @AlexanderMatlak, admin Team Ukraine, Kyiv.
4 place - Orest Vovk @Orest_Vovk, FIDE Master, Kyiv.

The final standings is here https://challonge.com/ru/7hv4e1t3

The marathon was held in memory of the legendary Odessa player Yakov Yuhtman (1935-1985), a true virtuoso of the blitz genre in Ukrainian chess.

My LIVE streams from Team Ukraine Jacob Yuhtman

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Thank you!!!

The Manager of the tournament

@UAArtur , Team Ukraine Admin.