22 April 2016
Pavel Eljanov And Mariya Muzychuk Win Chess Hetman-2015 Award
54 grandmasters submitted their votes.
Pavel Eljanov
Pavel Eljanov from Kharkov and Mariya Muzychuk from Lviv received the Chess Hetman Award as the best Ukrainian chess players among men and women.
Chess Ukraine website gives the award after the personal voting among Ukraining grandmasters. Each expert names five best players in men's and women's chess. The first place gives 10 points, 2nd place gives 7, 3rd place gives 5, 4th place gives 3, and 5th place gives 1 point.
This year Eljanov and Muzychuk showed exactly the same result – 404 points. 39 grandmasters named them best, and two voters put them on the second place.
This was the 11th edition of the Chess Hetman, and the votes were collected from 54 grandmasters. Vassily Ivanchuk (Lviv) is a 7-time winner of the award. Ekaterina Lagno, who plays for Russia now, received the award six times.
Results of 2015
Pavel Eljanov 404
Andrey Volokitin 141
Anton Korobov 136
Mariya Muzychuk 404
Natalia Zhukova 218
Anna Muzychuk 215
