“Debut” in the Vysochansk Community: when hot battles on the chessboard warm cold days!
Today, January 31, despite the snow and frost, 20 young strategists from Pokotylivka, Vysokyi, and Pivdennyi gathered at the High Hub Youth Center to determine the strongest in the Community Open Chess Championship “Debut.”
The tournament was held in three categories:
Girls
Older boys 14–17 years
Younger boys 10–13 years
Each game lasted 10 minutes, turning the chessboard into a true battlefield of quick decisions and strategic combinations. There was no room for doubt — every move felt like a positional maneuver in a grand chess symphony.
Results:
Girls:
1st place – Kseniia Sydorenko, Pokotylivka
2nd place – Anastasiia Yashchenko, Vysokyi
3rd place – Daria Kovtun, Vysokyi
Older boys:
1st place – Kyrylo Bilozub, Vysokyi
2nd place – Bohdan Zhuravliov, Vysokyi
3rd place – Vladyslav Vereitin, Vysokyi
Younger boys:
1st place – Artem Stepanov, Vysokyi
2nd place – Andrii Halkin, Vysokyi
3rd place – Bronislav Kudrenko, Vysokyi
The winners received cups, medals, certificates, sweets, and all participants received commemorative gifts from the organizers — the Vysochansk Youth Sports School and the High Hub Youth Center.
The Vysochansk community is shaping a new generation of thinking leaders capable of making important decisions quickly and accurately — both on the chessboard and in life.
The events are part of the “Skills of the Third Millennium” project, implemented by the High Hub Youth Center of the Vysochansk Village Council with support from the Kharkiv Community Foundation “Toloka” within the framework of the “Community Pulse” project funded by the Global Fund for Community Foundations.
With support High Hub Youth Center