Chess championships held in Michigan (06/29/97)

Chess championships held in Michigan

WARREN, Mich. - The 1997 chess championship of the Ukrainian Sports Federation of U.S.A. and Canada (USCAK) took place on June 7 at the Ukrainian Cultural Center in Warren, Mich., sponsored and hosted by the Ukrainian Sport Club Chernyk of Detroit.

The contest comprised five rounds of action chess, where each game was limited in duration to one hour. Three sports clubs were represented: the host club, the S. Popel Club of Buffalo, N.Y., and Chornomorska Sitch of Newark, N.J.

Dr. Orest Popovych (Sitch) won the tournament with a score of 4 1/2:1/2. The champion received a cash prize of $200 and a traveling trophy donated by Sitch in memory of Lev Blonarovych, a former USCAK champion.

Other players finished as follows: 2-3 (tied) Bohdan Andrushkiw (Chernyk) and Dr. Ihor Podebriy (Popel Club) at four points; (each received $100 in prize money); 4. Rostyslav Smal (Chernyk) - three points. ($75 prize); 5-8 (tied) the Rev. Marian Procyk (Popel Club), Hryhoriy Malynovsky (Chernyk), Volodymyr Lysenko (Chernyk) and Pylyp Procyk (Popel Club) - three points. (Pylyp Procyk received the top junior prize of $100 and the new traveling trophy donated by the Ukrainian National Association); 9-13 (tied) Dr. Bohdan Haydukevych (Chernyk), Roman Lazarchuk (Chernyk), Zenobius Tomkiw (Chernyk) and Oles Podebriy (Popel Club) - two points (Mr. Podebriy, the runner-up among the juniors, received as his prize a chess clock); 14-15 (tied) the Rev. Mario Dacyshyn (Chernyk) and Stepan Procyk (Popel Club) - one point.

Chernyk, and particularly its chess organizer, Mr. Andrushkiw, were commended for their excellent effort in staging this event. Special thanks were expressed also to the Self-Reliance Ukrainian Federal Credit Union of Warren, Mich., and to the Ukrainian National Association for their respective donations of $300 and a trophy for juniors in support of this event.

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