Iulija Vladislavivna Osmak is a Ukrainian

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(WGM, 2016) and

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(IM, 2017).

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Biography

Osmak won the Ukrainian Girl's Chess Championships several times in different age categories: U10 (2006, 2008), U12 (2010), U16 (2013), U20 (2012, 2013). In 2010, she won the

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in the U12 girl's age group. She won bronze medals at the

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s twice: in the U10 girl's age category (2008) and in the U12 girl's age category (2010). At the Ukrainian Women's Chess Championships Osmak won gold (2017), silver (2019) and four bronze (2014, 2015, 2018, 2020) medals. In August 2021, in

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Osmak won 2nd place in the European Individual Women's Chess Championship. In November 2021, in

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she ranked 21st in

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. Osmak represented the Ukrainian team in major team chess tournaments: * participated in

2 times (

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) and won in the team competition gold (

) and silver (

) medals; * participated in European Women's Team Chess Championship 3 times (2017, 2019, 2021). won a bronze (2017) medal in the team competition; * participated in World Women's Team Chess Championship 2 times (2017, 2021). Osmaka was awarded the title of International Grandmaster (WGM) in 2016 by

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, and in 2017 the title of International Master (IM).

Disqualification from the FIDE Universiade tournament

On 27 and 28 March 2021, Iulija Osmak won with a score of 4.5/5 in the final of the Women's Rapid section of the 1st FIDE World University Online Chess Championship, but her score was changed to 0/5, with Julia Antolak declared the winner. She was disqualified based on a statistical analysis of her five games from the final. The Fair Play Panel of the event say 20 players in total were disqualified but that they are not claiming "proof of actual cheating". Osmak has expressed a willingness to take a lie-detector test to dispute that verdict.

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Living people Ukrainian female chess players Chess woman grandmasters Chess International Masters World Youth Chess Champions Sportspeople from Kyiv 1998 births {{Ukraine-chess-bio-stub