«Ural chess festival – 2017»: sports excitement and new friends

August 11, Ural State University of Economics hosted the closing ceremony of the rapid and classical chess competitions of "Ural Chess Festival - 2017" among men and women. The organizers of the festival stressed that the festival was held only thanks to the participants and next year will see super tournaments.

Welcoming the participants of the competitions, the representative of the festival title sponsor, the head of the Marketing Department of "SKB-Contour" Maxim Nakhabo noted that the festival brought together very different people. Chess players from Sverdlovsk, Chelyabinsk, Kurgan regions, Perm Krai, Khanty-Mansiysk and Yamalo-Nenets autonomous districts, Republics of Khakassia, Adygeya, and Crimea, as well as from St. Petersburg and Moscow came to participate in the festival.

Chess is a true sport that requires years of training, a strategy and the ability to take responsibility for decisions made. On this day, the best of 129 participants in rapid chess and 101 participants in classical chess were awarded.

Prize-winners of the women’s championship in classical chess:

1 place — Ludmila Saunina (Sverdlovsk region)

2 place — Diana Samigullina (Sverdlovsk region)

3 place — Natalia Doktionova (Sverdlovsk region)

4 place — Tatyana Glandysheva (Sverdlovsk region)

5 place — Elena Matsenko (Chelyabinsk region)

Prize-winners of the women’s championship in classical chess (veterans)

1 place — Albina Gileva (Chelyabinsk region)

Prize-winners of the men’s championship in classical chess:

1 place — Sergey Vokarev (Sverdlovsk region)

2 place — Alexey Smirnov (Perm Krai)

3 place — Andrey Shariyazdanov (Sverdlovsk region)

4 place — Sergey Inozemtsev (Sverdlovsk region)

5 place — Arthur Dilmukhametov (St. Petersburg)

6 place — Ilnur Kunakbaev (Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District)

7 place — Andrey Ivanov (Sverdlovsk region)

8 place — Nikolay Ogloblin (Sverdlovsk region)

9 place — Pavel Salman (Moscow)

10 place — Vadim Zasukhin (Sverdlovsk region)

Prize-winners of the men’s championship in classical chess (veterans):

1 place — Leonid Pastukhov (Sverdlovsk region)

2 place — Sergey Fokin (Sverdlovsk region)

3 place — Sergey Pozin (Khanty-Mansi Autonomous District)

Prize-winners of the men’s championship in classical chess (rating 2100-1801):

1 place — Alexey Fedotov (Sverdlovsk region)

2 place — Roman Kuzmin (Sverdlovsk region)

3 place — Artem Pingin (Sverdlovsk region)

Winners of the women’s rapid chess championship:

1 place — Ludmila Saunina (Sverdlovsk region)

2 place — Diana Samigullina (Sverdlovsk region)

3 place — Maria Lysenko (Sverdlovsk region)

Prize-winners of the men’s rapid chess championship:

1 place — Sergey Matsenko (Chelyabinsk region)

2 place — Vitaly Shinkevich (Perm Krai)

3 place — Sergey Vokarev (Sverdlovsk region)

4 place — Mikhail Pogromsky (Sverdlovsk region)

5 place — Andrey Ivanov (Sverdlovsk region)

6 place — Alexey Smirnov (Perm Krai)

7 place — Vladimir Matveev (Sverdlovsk region)

Prize-winners of the men’s rapid chess championship (veterans):

1 place — Sergey Pozin (Khanty-Mansi Autonomous District)

2 place — Golikov Oleg (Sverdlovsk region)

3 place — Terentyev Anatoly (Sverdlovsk region)

Prize-winners of the men’s rapid chess championship (rating 2100-1801):

1 place — Alexander Maryevich (Sverdlovsk region)

2 place — Nikita Anchutin (Kurgan region)

3 place — Artem Odegov (Sverdlovsk region)

Prize-winners of the men’s rapid chess championship (rating 1800 and less):

1 place — Artem Makov (Sverdlovsk region)

2 place — Daniil Pankov (Kurgan region)

3 place — Alexey Kuznetsov (Sverdlovsk region)

At the end of the award ceremony, Albert Stepanyan, Vice President of the regional public organization «Chess Federation of Sverdlovsk region», said that the Federation supports the holding of the festival next year.

August 11, Ural State University of Economics hosted the closing ceremony of the rapid and classical chess competitions of "Ural Chess Festival - 2017" among men and women. The organizers of the festival stressed that the festival was held only thanks to the participants and next year will see super tournaments.

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