Igor Ilyich Lysyj (; born 1 January 1987) is a Russian

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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

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, protesting against the

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and expressing solidarity with the

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people.

Chess career

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

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championship in 2004. In 2006 he tied for first place with Roman Ovetchkin in the Zudov Memorial. In 2007 he was awarded the grandmaster title and won the main event (Young Masters) of the Euro Chess Tournament in

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, the Netherlands. In 2008 he finished tied for first (second on tiebreak) at the 10th World University Chess Championship, held in

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. In 2009, he tied for first in the 13th

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open tournament, finishing second on countback. In January 2010, Lysyj tied for first with

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and

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in the 39th Rilton Cup in Stockholm, placing fifth on tiebreak. 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. 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

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. This victory qualified him for the Russian Championship Superfinal, which took place in December. Lysyj won with a score of 5½/9. 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

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, finishing 7th on tiebreak, with a score of 6/9, one point behind that of the winner,

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. Later in the same year, Lysyj acted as a second for

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in the

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tournament. In September 2019, he competed in the

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, where he was eliminated in round one after losing to

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. Two months later, Lysyj won the European

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Championship in

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with a score of 17/22, edging out

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and

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on tiebreak.

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Igor Lysyj
chess games at 365Chess.com {{DEFAULTSORT:Lysyj, Igor 1987 births Living people Chess grandmasters Russian chess players Russian chess writers Sportspeople from Yekaterinburg