GMMartyn Kravtsiv

Martyn Kravtsiv was born in Lviv in 1990. His father taught him chess on his sixth birthday, and he later trained at the Lviv Chess Club. He helped Ukraine win the 2006 World Youth Under-16 Olympiad. In 2008, he won the individual blitz event at the World Mind Sports Games in Beijing. FIDE awarded him the grandmaster title in 2009.

Kravtsiv won the Chennai Open in 2011 and shared first at Cappelle-la-Grande that year. He competed in the 2013 World Cup. At the 2015 Ukrainian Championship in Lviv, he shared first and finished second on tiebreak. He won the 2016 Riga Technical University Open and the 2018 Gujarat Open. He represented Ukraine at the 2017 World Team Championship. He also coached the national team when it won Olympiad silver in 2016 and European team gold in 2021. His work away from competition includes writing chess books.