Chess

Our Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute students win again, this time in chess.

The first chess championship among the employees of the capital's higher education institutions was held in the CLUST SPACE smartcity.

This open chess tournament, which took place at the end of November, was attended by 125 participants from 12 universities - and this is the largest number compared to similar chess competitions at Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute.

On the first day, 66 participants from 22 faculties competed for the chess championship. The tournament is held according to the Swiss system in 7 rounds.

This is just the beginning - next, the participants will compete in bowling, volleyball, mini-football and streetball.

The KPI team defended the title of Kyiv Rapid Chess Champion, which it has held since 2016, at the city chess championship among university student teams under the program of the XVIII Summer Universiade of Kyiv.

Studmisto (the campus) and the trade union committee of students organized the traditional, 14th Campus Chess tournament. 24 participants took part in it.
Winners:

Before the International Chess Day, Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute trade union organised two chess tournaments for everyone: face-to-face and online.

The annual Campus Chess tournament was held at the Student Consolidation Center with the support of the students' trade union and DEW on May 17. 26 participants decided to try their hand.

Prizes went to:

Arsen Piskor, a freshman of E.O. Paton Institute of Materials Science and Welding, produced chocolate chess figures on his draft. Each chess figure took about 40 g of chocolate.

In this way, the inventive young man decided to motivate his girlfriend to play chess - and he succeeded.

To Mikhail Belous (FICS, gr. IC-51) with the title of international master (IM) and Pavel Vorontsov (IASA, gr.DA-51) with the title of international grandmaster (GM)!

November 26, was the long-awaited chess tournament between students who live on campus. In tournament was attended by 26 students from various hostels. The game was uncompromising and interesting. We thank all participants and congratulate the winners.