Igor Lysyj
Full nameIgor Ilyich Lysyj
CountryRussia
Born (1987-01-01) 1 January 1987
Sverdlovsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union[1]
TitleGrandmaster (2007)
FIDE rating2589 (January 2024)
Peak rating2700 (January 2015)
Peak rankingNo. 45 (January 2015)

Igor Ilyich Lysyj[2] (Игорь Ильич Лысый; born 1 January 1987) is a Russian chess player and writer. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 2007. Lysyj was Russian champion in 2014.

Together with 43 other Russian chess players, Lysyj signed an open letter to Russian president Vladimir Putin, protesting against the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine and expressing solidarity with the Ukrainian people.[3]

Chess career

Lysyj was a member of the Russian team that placed fourth in the 2003 Under-16 Chess Olympiad in Denizli, Turkey.[4] He won the silver medal for his performance (score of 6/8 points) on the reserve board.[5]

Lysyj won the Russian junior rapid chess championship in 2004.[6] In 2006 he tied for first place with Roman Ovetchkin in the Zudov Memorial.[7] In 2007 he was awarded the grandmaster title and won the main event (Young Masters) of the Euro Chess Tournament in Hengelo, the Netherlands.[8] In 2008 he finished tied for first (second on tiebreak) at the 10th World University Chess Championship, held in Novokuznetsk.[9]

In 2009, he tied for first in the 13th Voronezh open tournament, finishing second on countback.[10] In January 2010, Lysyj tied for first with Eduardas Rozentalis, Pavel Ponkratov, Radosław Wojtaszek and Luke McShane in the 39th Rilton Cup in Stockholm, placing fifth on tiebreak.[11] He competed in the 2011 FIDE World Cup, where he knocked out Mikhail Kobalia and Alexander Ivanov in the first two rounds, then he was eliminated in round three by Leinier Domínguez Pérez.

In 2012 he won the Moscow Open.[12][13] Lysyj took part in the 2013 FIDE World Cup, where he was eliminated by Levon Aronian in round two, after beating Andrei Istrățescu in the first round.

In June 2014, he won the Russian Championship Higher League in Vladivostok.[14] This victory qualified him for the Russian Championship Superfinal, which took place in December. Lysyj won with a score of 5½/9.[15]

At the 2015 FIDE World Cup Lysyj defeated Constantin Lupulescu in the first round and lost to Yu Yangyi in the second, thus exiting the competition. In February 2018, he tied for 4th-10th places in the Aeroflot Open, finishing 7th on tiebreak, with a score of 6/9, one point behind that of the winner, Vladislav Kovalev.[16] Later in the same year, Lysyj acted as a second for Valentina Gunina in the Women's World Chess Championship tournament.[17]

In September 2019, he competed in the FIDE World Cup, where he was eliminated in round one after losing to Jeffery Xiong. Two months later, Lysyj won the European Blitz Championship in Tallinn with a score of 17/22, edging out Zaven Andriasian and Andrey Esipenko on tiebreak.[18][19]

Books

  • Igor Lysyj; Roman Ovetchkin (2012). The Berlin Defence. Chess Stars. ISBN 978-954-8782-89-0.
  • Igor Lysyj; Roman Ovetchkin (2012). The Open Games for Black. Chess Stars. ISBN 978-954-8782-88-3.
  • Igor Lysyj; Roman Ovetchkin (2017). The Hedgehog vs the English/Reti. Chess Stars. ISBN 9786197188134.

References

  1. ↑ GM title application. FIDE.
  2. ↑ Профиль шахматиста — Лысый Игорь Ильич. ratings.ruchess.ru. (in Russian)
  3. ↑ "'Stop the war.' 44 Top Russian Players Publish Open Letter To Putin", Chess.com, 3 March 2022
  4. ↑ Bartelski, Wojciech. "3rd World Youth U16 Chess Olympiad: Denizli 2003". OlimpBase. Retrieved 29 September 2015.
  5. ↑ "Best board results". OlimpBase. Retrieved 29 September 2015.
  6. ↑ History of Nizhny Tagil Archived 2012-07-09 at archive.today (in Russian)
  7. ↑ Crowther, Mark (10 July 2006). "TWIC 609: Zudov Memorial". The Week in Chess. Retrieved 29 September 2015.
  8. ↑ Crowther, Mark (13 August 2007). "TWIC 666: Euro Chess Tournament". The Week in Chess. Retrieved 29 September 2015.
  9. ↑ Crowther, Mark (17 March 2008). "TWIC 697: World University Chess Championship". The Week in Chess. Retrieved 29 September 2015.
  10. ↑ Crowther, Mark (22 June 2009). "TWIC 763: 13th Voronezh Open". The Week in Chess. Retrieved 29 September 2015.
  11. ↑ Crowther, Mark (11 January 2010). "TWIC 792: Rilton Cup 2009-10". The Week in Chess. Retrieved 29 September 2015.
  12. ↑ Doggers, Peter (6 February 2012). "Igor Lysyj wins 'Moscow Open'". ChessVibes. Retrieved 29 September 2015.
  13. ↑ "Moscow Open 2012 A: final standings". chess-results.com. 2012-02-05. Retrieved 5 February 2012.
  14. ↑ "Igor Lysyj and Olga Girya took the trophies in Vladivostok". Chessdom. 13 June 2014. Retrieved 29 September 2015.
  15. ↑ "Russian Super Finals - Lysyj and Gunina become 2014 Russian Champions". FIDE. Archived from the original on 11 September 2015. Retrieved 29 September 2015.
  16. ↑ Niklesh Kumar Jain (2018-03-01). "Aeroflot Open R9: Kovalev wins the title". Chess News. ChessBase. Retrieved 2020-07-09.
  17. ↑ "Igor Lysyj: Coach is always responsible for the loss". Women's World Championship 2018. 2018-11-12. Retrieved 2020-07-09.
  18. ↑ "Igor Lysyj Becomes European Blitz Champion!". Chess Federation of Russia. 2019-12-07. Retrieved 2020-07-09.
  19. ↑ "The (open) European Blitz for Lysyj and Rapid to Sargissian". Chess News. ChessBase. 2019-12-07. Retrieved 2020-07-09.
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