With allies - at the same board!

13 USUE students took part in the tournament held between students from 40 universities of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus. The competition went online: thanks to a special program; it was possible to reveal the strongest chess players of the allied states without a face-to-face meeting. Among them was a USUE student, Yevgeny Malyshev.

“I was more fortunate than other members of the USUE team. I took second place among over 200 participants in the online chess tournament! It was a pleasure for me to compete with student chess players, adopting their chess-playing skills. I competed with many of them earlier at various championships, chess sports camps, and open tournaments. I have been playing chess professionally since 2009. Having entered Ural State University of Economics, I continued doing this sport, because it is interesting to me. Besides, our university pays enough attention to the development of chess art and its popularization among young people,” said Yevgeny Malyshev, a third-year student at the USUE Institute of Digital Management Technologies and Information Security.

Apart from Yevgeny Malyshev, USUE was represented by Andrey Andreev, Daniil Davydov, Igor Eremkin, Sergey Zhuravlev, Vyacheslav Lukov, Daniil Plesovskikh, Matvey Prytkov, Timur Saidulaev, Alexander Solovyov and Alexey Usoltsev, as well as Anna Kromskaya and Nicole Montero.

A USUE student became a prize-winner in a chess tournament held between the two allied states of Russia and Belarus.