Olexandr Bortnyk (born 18 October 1996) is a Ukrainian chess player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 2015, at the age of 19. A former chess prodigy, Bortnyk is considered one of the strongest players according to his rating on the chess.com website in the "Blitz" and "Bullet" category (game time up to 3 minutes) . In 2018, Oleksandr left for the USA and together with his wife Evgenia Bortnyk and founded the "Bortnik School of Chess" chess school.[1] Oleksandr Bortnyk has an older brother, Mykola Bortnyk,[2] who also plays chess and holds the title International Master. He regularly streams on Twitch[3] and puts up content on YouTube[4]
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Olexandr Bortnyk | |
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Country | Ukraine |
Born | (1996-10-18) 18 October 1996 (age 26) Oleksandrivka, Mykolaiv Oblast, Ukraine |
Title | Grandmaster (2015) |
FIDE rating | 2604 (November 2022) |
Peak rating | 2610 (July 2018) |
He was born in the village of Oleksandrivka, Voznesensky district, Mykolaiv region. He started playing chess at the age of 3. In 2001, five-year-old Sasha took part in competitions for the first time. Since 2002, he studied under the guidance of coach Roman Khayetskyi. After graduating from Oleksandrivska secondary school, he entered Admiral Makarov National Shipbuilding University.[5]
Bortnyk has won multiple Ukrainian and European youth tournaments[6] as well as many chess.com and lichess.org online events.
He had impressive results in Ukrainian/European Youth Championships(U8, U12, U14, U16) during this period.
In 2014, Bortnyk won the World Youth Chess Championships in the Under 18 category held in Durban, South africa.[8]
Bronshtein Memorial ( Minsk ) — 2nd place.[9]
He reached the final of their Bullet Chess championship but then lost to the winner Hikaru Nakamura.[10]
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