Lysyj was a member of the Russian team that placed fourth in the 2003 Under-16 Chess Olympiad in
Denizli, Turkey. He won the silver medal for his performance (score of 6/8 points) on the reserve board. Lysyj won the Russian junior
rapid chess championship in 2004. In 2006 he tied for first place with
Roman Ovetchkin in the Zudov Memorial. In 2007 he was awarded the grandmaster title and won the main event (Young Masters) of the Euro Chess Tournament in
Hengelo, the Netherlands. In 2008 he finished tied for first (second on tiebreak) at the 10th World University Chess Championship, held in
Novokuznetsk. In 2009, he tied for first in the 13th
Voronezh open tournament, finishing second on countback. In January 2010, Lysyj tied for first with
Eduardas Rozentalis,
Pavel Ponkratov,
Radosław Wojtaszek and
Luke McShane in the 39th Rilton Cup in
Stockholm, placing fifth on tiebreak. He competed in the
2011 FIDE World Cup, where he knocked out
Mikhail Kobalia and
Alexander Ivanov in the first two rounds, then he was eliminated in round three by
Leinier Domínguez Pérez. In 2012 he won the Moscow Open. Lysyj took part in the
2013 FIDE World Cup, where he was eliminated by
Levon Aronian in round two, after beating
Andrei Istrățescu in the first round. In June 2014, he won the Russian Championship Higher League in
Vladivostok. This victory qualified him for the
Russian Championship Superfinal, which took place in December. Lysyj won with a score of 5½/9. At the
2015 FIDE World Cup Lysyj defeated
Constantin Lupulescu in the first round and lost to
Yu Yangyi in the second, thus exiting the competition. In February 2018, he tied for 4th-10th places in the
Aeroflot Open, finishing 7th on tiebreak, with a score of 6/9, one point behind that of the winner,
Vladislav Kovalev. Later in the same year, Lysyj acted as a
second for
Valentina Gunina in the
Women's World Chess Championship tournament. In September 2019, he competed in the
FIDE World Cup, where he was eliminated in round one after losing to
Jeffery Xiong. Two months later, Lysyj won the European
Blitz Championship in
Tallinn with a score of 17/22, edging out
Zaven Andriasian and
Andrey Esipenko on tiebreak. ==Books==