The path to success: results of rapid chess competition

August 9, at Ural State University of Economics, the medals for rapid chess of «Ural Chess Festival — 2017» were awarded. During the week, 150 people competed for the title of the best chess player.

The judges summed up the results of the Sverdlovsk Region Cup in rapid chess among girls and boys under 10 and 13 years old, as well as the results of the regional tournament in rapid chess among boys and girls under 19 years old.

International Grandmaster, director of the Ural Chess Academy Naum Rashkovsky noted that the main task of accomplished chess-players is to cultivate successors that in future they could defend the honor of the Sverdlovsk region and Russia. «When we organized the chess academy, we set exactly this task for ourselves. We expect you would show a wonderful playing and good results. For sure, they will be. I can say about myself: when I became the champion of Russia, I was 16 years old, and Anatoly Karpov — 10 years old. He later became the world champion and one of the greatest chess players in history. You have a good example before your eyes. We all once dreamed of becoming great, and those who are working on a daily basis, will succeed,» Nahum Rashkovsky said.

Winners of this stage of the festival were congratulated by the USUE Rector Yakov Silin. He stressed that the University will become the base platform of the Chess Federation of the Sverdlovsk region, «We are open for all levels of competitions, festivals, and tournaments. We want to be a chess house of our region.»

The chief judge Vladimir Komissarov awarded the first prize to the youngest participant — to five-year-old Ivan Zaytsev (Yekaterinburg).

Results of the Sverdlovsk Region Cup in rapid chess among girls under 10:

1 place - Karolina Konyakhina (Kushva)

2 place - Veronika Chistyakova (Yekaterinburg)

3 place - Irina Barobina (Aramil)

4 place - Ksenia Labaznikova (Yekaterinburg)

5 place - Julia Dubinskaya (Republic of Adygea) 

Results of the Sverdlovsk Region Cup in rapid chess among boys under 10:

1 place - Nikita Dovbnya (Yekaterinburg)

2 place - Denis Gordeev (Yekaterinburg)

3 place - Sergey Isanbaev (Yekaterinburg)

4 place - Savva Serebryakov (Yekaterinburg)

5 place - Maxim Avvakumov (Yekaterinburg)

6 place - Leonid Krayukhin (Yekaterinburg)

7 place - Maxim Dundin (Yekaterinburg)

8 place - Maxim Egorov (Yekaterinburg)

9 place - Oleg Semenov (Yekaterinburg)

10 place - Alexander Zvonarev (Yekaterinburg)

Results of the Sverdlovsk Region Cup in rapid chess among girls under 13:

1 place - Daria Semenova (Yekaterinburg)

2 place - Olga Likhanova (Tavda)

3 place - Kristina Kiryanova (Krasnoturinsk)

4 place - Svetlana Chernikova (Yekaterinburg)

Results of the Sverdlovsk Region Cup in rapid chess among boys under 13:

1 place - Vadim Shalapugin (Shadrinsk)

2 place - Artem Makov (Yekaterinburg)

3 place - Dmitry Durnev (Nizhny Tagil)

4 place - Danil Zhavoronkov (Nizhny Tagil)

5 place - Andrey Shatun (Nizhny Tagil)

6 place - Alexander Smolin (Yekaterinburg)

7 place - Igor Trofimov (Yekaterinburg)

Results of the regional competition in rapid chess among girls under 19:

1 place - Alena Suverneva (Nizhnaya Salda)

2 place - Anastasia Dubnikova (Yekaterinburg)

3 place - Venera Biktasheva (Alapaevsk)

Results of the regional competition in rapid chess among boys under 19:

1 place - Arthur Teymurov (Yekaterinburg)

2 place - Roman Aukhatov (Berezovsky)

3 place - Konstantin Chudinov (Tavda)

4 place - Artem Odegov (Yekaterinburg)

As a reminder, August 7, at Ural State University of Economics first sets of «Ural Chess Festival — 2017» medals were awarded. On that day, they summed up the stage of the Cup of the Sverdlovsk region among girls and boys under 10 and 13 years old, as well as for boys and girls under 19 years old.

August 9, at Ural State University of Economics, the medals for rapid chess of «Ural Chess Festival — 2017» were awarded. During the week, 150 people competed for the title of the best chess player.