All the Way Up

The 84th Ukrainian Chess Championship will be held at Volter Hotel in Lviv from 2–14 December 2015. The playing list includes one woman and eleven men: Yuri Krivoruchko, Alexander Valentinovich Areshchenko, Andrei Aleksandrovich Volokitin, Zahar Aleksandrovich Efimenko, Sergey Anatoliyovych Fedorchuk, Yuriy Alexandrovich Kuzubov, Valeriy Nevyerov, Vitaly Sivuk, Alexander Vladimirovich Zubarev, Alexander Anatolyevich Kovchan, Martyn Romanovich Kravtsiv, and 15th Women’s World Chess Champion Mariya Olehivna Muzychuk. However, Muzychuk’s very aggressive managerial team imposed the secrecy order on all her games, which therefore won’t be broadcasted neither live nor later on. Apparently the purpose is to hide Muzychuk’s games from her World Championship challenger, 侯逸凡 (Hóu Yìfán).

Mariya Muzychuk smiling :) at 成都 (Chéngdū), China in the spring of 2015. Photo: Badu.com.