Winner of the Moscow Open Men’s Cup of Russia 20-year old Dmitry Gordievsky is speaking of his success with the tournament official website correspondent Alina Bivol.

- Hello, Dima. For the second year in a row you’re sharing the first place in the Moscow Open. What’s the secret of your success?

- I’ve been participating in the Moscow Open tournament since the moment when the festival was created. It’s strange but all the previous years I considered the Moscow Open to be the worst tournament for myself as I was playing very unsuccessfully there. I’m very glad, I managed to change this tendency.

It’s hard to compare these two tournaments. Last year I was trying to catch up my opponents: I lost in the fourth round, then I played in a draw, and at the end of the tournament I won five times in a row.

The winner of the Women’s Cup of Russia tournament Oksana Gritsayeva is telling on her road to success to the official website correspondent Alina Bivol.

- Hello, Oksana! Congratulations on the brilliant performance! How did you manage to show such a result?

- Of course I wouldn’t be able to score 8,5 points without the help from my opponents.  The struggle was hard in all of the games, sometimes my opponents made mistakes, sometimes I managed to win over them. It was a hard game against Polina Shuvalova, sitting at the board I didn’t understand how I could win. As a result she made a mistake and I managed to win. I received a nice queen gambit in the game with Alina Kashlinskaya. I knew I was risking by playing such sharp variants before the last round, but I didn’t want just to sit and defend against Alisa Galliamova.

Young grandmaster Vladislav Artemiev (Kazan) clinched the first place in the RSSU Blitz Chess Cup that was held Monday, February 6 within the frames of the International RSSU Cup, 2017 Moscow Open additional program. He scored 8 points in 9 rounds. 15-year old Alexander Tryapishko (Crimea) showed the same result but his tie-breaks turned to be lower, and he took the second place. We should mark that Artemiev also won this tournament last year.

The bronze medal was won by the experienced international master Alexander Reprintsev (Ukraine). He scored 7,5 points and outran two more representatives of Ukraine – Kirill Shevchenko and Vitaliy Bernadskiy due to tie-breaks.

Evgenia Shukhareva (Rostov-on-Don), Anastasia Sazonova (TYumen) and Elmira Mirzoeva (Moscow) with 5,5 points showed the best result among women.

Dmitry Gordievsky (Moscow) and Vladislav Artemiev (Kazan) shared the first place in the 2017 Moscow Open Men’s Cup of Russia. Both grandmasters scored 7,5 points in nine rounds. Last round Gordievsky played in a draw with Gata Kamsky (USA) and Artemiev won over Maksim Vavulin (Moscow). Higher tie-breaks allowed the chess player from Moscow to climb the top of the podium.

The third place was shared between Boris Grachev (Moscow), Denis Khismatullin (Neftekamsk), Gata Kamsky (USA), Maksat Atabayev (Turkmenia) and Evgeny Levin (St. Petersburg). These chess players occupy the lines of the table in this order. The bronze belongs to Grachev.

221 chess players from 16 countries of the world were struggling for the victory.

The grandmaster from Feodosia (Crimea) is the winner of the 2017 Moscow Open Women’s Cup of Russia, by showing a phenomenal result – 8,5 of possible 9 points. Silver medalist Alina Kashlinskaya (Moscow) remains one point behind the winner (7,5 points). She is the only one, who managed to play in a draw with Gritsayeva.

Dina Belenkaya (St. Petersburg) with 7 points clinched the third place. The chess player managed to win all her last three games.

This year the RSSU Men’s Veteran Cup registered more than 170 participants. According to the final results the grandmaster Evgeny Sveshnikov (Chelyabinsk) and the international master Alexander Filipenko (Izhevsk) scored 7,5 points. Sveshnikov won a gold medal due to tie-breaks.

Five participants scored half a point less: the best tie-breaks allowed Evgenij Kalegin (Ufa) to win the third place. Evgeni Dragomarezkij, Oleg Zilbert (both from Moscow), Amanmurad Kakageldyev (Turkmenia) and Anatoli Shvedchikov (Moscow) occupy the next lines below in the table.

We should add, Evgeny Ellinovich Sveshnikov wins the RSSU Veteran Cup for the second time (2012, 2017).

The RSSU Women’s Veteran Cup is finished with an impressive victory by Galina Strutinskaia (Moscow). A brilliant result – 8,5 of 9 points – allowed the chess player to clinch the first place one round before the end of the competition.

Female international master Elena Sazonova (Tyumen) with 6,5 points is on the second place. 6 points were scored by: Ludmila Saunina (Sverdlov region), Elena Fatalitbekova and Elena Krasenkova (both from Moscow). According to the tie-breaks Saunina is the bronze medalist.

18-year old Sergey Tunik (Kemerov region) is the winner of the RSSU Amateur Chess Cup within the frames of the 2017 Moscow Open. He came to finish with 8 of 9 points.

Five chess players scored 7,5 points. The tie-breaks awarded Gleb Apryshko (Moscow) with a silver medal, and Bibek Thing (Nepal) – with a bronze medal.

Dmitry Fraiman (St. Petersburg), Yuri Malinin (Leningrad region) and Ruslan Murtazin (Tatarstan) remain behind the medal winners.

It should be said that this tournament has the biggest number of participants from all the festival tournaments, around 379 chess players took part in this edition of the competition.

The RSSU Blind and Visually Impaired Fast Chess Cup is finished with the victory of international grandmaster Yury Meshkov. The chess player from Smolensk scored 7,5 points in 9 rounds and outran two chess players with identical number of points due to tie-breaks. Alexey Smirnov (Perm region) is a silver medalist, and Stanislav Babrykin (Moscow region) won a bronze medal.

It should be added that the tournament was held for the first time under the umbrella of the Moscow Open festival, the All-Russian Society of blind and visually impaired people provided support in the organization of the event.

One round before the finish Muscovite Dmitry Gordiensky grasped leadership in the Moscow Open Cup of Russia, unofficially named to be the main tournament of the festival. In the game of the eighth round the chess player from the capital won over Saveliy Golubov (Moscow region). Gordievsky now possesses 7 points.

Vladislav Artemiev (Kazan) and Boris Grachev (Moscow) played in a draw in another game of leaders. Four players catch up with them now: Gata Kamsky (USA), Maksat Atabayev (Turkmenistan), Denis Khismatullin (Neftekamsk) and Maksim Vavulin (Moscow). All scored 6,5 points. 

Oksana Gritsayeva still keeps the first line of the table in the 2017 Women’s Cup of Russia tournament. 

World Vice-Champion, RSSU graduator Sergey Karyakin took part in the Award Ceremony of the winners and medalists of the Scool Champions’ and Student tournaments, held within the frames of the XIII International RSSU Chess Cup, 2017 Moscow Open. The Moscow Chess Federation first Vice-President Nikita Kim and the RSSU Rector Natalya Pochinok took part in the Award Ceremony as well.

Natalya Pochinok congratulated all the participants and parents on the end of the tournament. She marked that the Moscow Open festival unites the best and most talented chess players of all the age groups. “The Moscow Open is the tradition, we will continue to develop in future. In a week period the RSSU will host a key children’s tournament – the Belaya Lad’ya (The White Rook).

The RSSU School Champions’ Cup within the frames of the 2017 Moscow Open was held in the course of nine days in the Russian State Social University. More than 740 participants we struggling for the main prizes – entries to the World School Championship that will be held in Iassy, Romania this April.  The cherished entries were given to the chess players, placed first in their respective groups. The names of the winners became known Saturday, February 4.

Olesya Vlasova (Moscow) with 8,5 of possible 9 points became the first in the group of U9 Girls. Evelina Zavivaeva (Nizhny Novgorod) and Olesya Fedorova (Moscow) are 1,5 points behind the winner. Zavivaeva became a silver medalist according to the tie-breaks. 

The Championship of the National Student League was held within the frames of the program of the RSSU International Cup, Moscow Open for the second time. The competition was held during a nine-day period in both individual and team events and finished February 4.

The team of the Ural State Mining University celebrated the victory in the team event of the competitions. Its team members Vitaliy Bernadskiy and Alfia Nasybullina scored 12 points in total. The second place was won by the team of the Russian State University of Physical Culture, Sport and Tourism (Tagir Taalaibekov, Ludmila Leolko). With 11,5 points they fall behind the winners. The students of the Saratov State Academy of Law (Mikhail Bryakin, Anastasia Aseeva) won bronze medals. Players from Saratov also scored 11,5 points but remain behind the silver medalists due to tie-breaks.