| Martyn Kravtsiv | |
| Country: | Ukraine |
| Birth Date: | 26 November 1990 |
| Birth Place: | Lviv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Grandmaster (2009) | |
| Peakrating: | 2685 (March 2018) |
| Peakranking: | No. 59 (March 2018) |
| Fideid: | 14113147 |
Martyn Kravtsiv (uk|Мартин Кравців; born 26 November 1990) is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster. He competed in the FIDE World Cup in 2013.
Kravtsiv was taught how to play chess on his sixth birthday by his father. Later, he trained in a Lviv Chess Club.[1] In the 2008 World Mind Sports Games in Beijing, Kravtsiv won the gold medal in the men's individual blitz event. In 2010, he tied for 1st-6th places with Dmitry Kokarev, Alexey Dreev, Maxim Turov, Baskaran Adhiban and Aleksej Aleksandrov in the 2nd Orissa Open tournament in Bhubaneshwar.[2] In 2011, Kravtsiv won the 3rd Chennai Open.[3] The following year, he tied for 1st–5th with Pentala Harikrishna, Parimarjan Negi, Tornike Sanikidze and Tigran Gharamian in the Cappelle-la-Grande Open.[4] He tied for first with Andrei Volokitin and Zahar Efimenko in the 2015 Ukrainian Chess Championship, held in his native city of Lviv, finishing second on tiebreak.[5] In 2016, Kravtsiv won the Riga Technical University Open edging out Hrant Melkumyan, Arturs Neikšāns, Aleksey Goganov and Jiří Štoček on tiebreak score.[6]
In team events, Kravtsiv played for Ukraine in the 2006 U-16 Chess Olympiad, which was won by his team, and the World Team Chess Championship in 2017. He is 1st Gujarat open GM tournament 2018 champion.
Best tournament results: Andranik Margaryan Memorial 2013 - 1st place, Al Ain Chess Classic 2013 - 1-3, Lviv Vasylyshyn Memorial (2014) - 1st place, 8th OGD Prinsenstad 2015 - 1st place, 22nd Abu Dhabi Int. Chess Festival (2015) - 2nd place, Ukraine Men`s Final - 2015 - 2nd place, Al Ain Classic 2015 - 2-10, Riga Technical University Open 2016 - 1st place, 1st Sharjah Chess Masters 2017 - 1-5, Lake Sevan 2017 - 2nd place, 1st Gujarat international open (2018) - 1st place, Cap d'Agde chess (2018) - 3rd place.
Also was a coach of the Ukrainian National chess team during 42nd Chess Olympiad in Baku 2016 (silver medal) and 23rd European Team Chess Championship 2021 (gold medal).