The real stars of Russian chess for the second year in a row come to the festival «Pacific Meridian», which is the stage of the Cup of Russia. This year it was decided to hold the festival in the walls of the Far Eastern Federal University, located on the island of Russian. For the tournament were invited leading Russian grandmasters such as Denis Hismatullin, Paul Smirnov, Dmitry Bocharov, Eugene Roman, Sergey Volkov, Yuri Yakovych etc. The event includes just three large-scale tournament «Rapid Grand Prix of Russia» rapid chess » Seaside debut «stage of classical chess men and the» Russian Island «among boys and girls aged 9 to 15 years. So fell that the end of the rapid chess tournament had an international Chess Day — July 20. His distance Vladimir Onischuk finished unbeaten, having made only three draws, with the result of 9.5 out of 11 he took the first place in the standings. With a break at one point followed by Sergei Volkov, and closed three leaders Dmitry Bocharov. In a separate competition for women with a score of 6 points was the Love Mikhailov. 2nd place went to Alain Bogachkova, a spokeswoman for the Omsk region. Third place was shared between four participants, additional indicators place went to Alexandra Zherebtsova. The best result of our countrymen showed Ilya Tsigelnitsky. Higher line of our seaside girls make love Mikhailov. Unfortunately, our other seaside girls, having initially a good chance of getting the money, carried a poor start, in consequence of their effect on the result. That summed up the «Grand Prix of Russia» in rapid chess, and the next day the tournament kicks off in classical chess. Battles will last until July 29.
Victoria Chan