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Illya Igorevich Nyzhnyk (Ukrainian: Ілля Ігорович Нижник; born September 27 1996) is a Ukrainian chess Grandmaster.He was born in Vinnytsia (Ukraine) and gained worldwide attention when he won Group B of the 2007 Moscow Open at the age of 10. He attained a nearly flawless score of 8½/9 and his performance rating was 2633 that of a Grandmaster. As of January 2009 his FIDE rating was 2504 the highest rating in the world in the under-12 age group.
