7 February 2016
Urii Eliseev Wins Main Event of Moscow Open
Anastasia Bodnaruk won the women's event.
The 12th RSSU Cup – Moscow Open ended in Russian State Social University on February 7.
The main tournament, a leg of the Russian Cup, ended in a two-way tie between Urri Eliseev (2582, Russia) and Dmitry Gordievsky (2506, Russia). Both scored 7.5 points in 9 rounds. Eliseev had a better tie-break score and was awarded the main prize.
A group of players had 7 points: Anton Korobov (Ukraine), Artyom Timofeev (Russia), Vladislav Artemiev (Russia), Ernesto Inarkiev (Russia), Alexander Moskalenko (Russia), Dmitry Kokarev (Russia), Vasiliy Korchmar (Russia).
Anton Korobov (2710) got the third prize thanks to having the best tie-break score.
Anastasia Bodnaruk (2453, Russia), Soumya Swaminahan (2345, India), and Alexandra Obolentseva (2194, Russia) tied for the first with 7.5 points in the women's event. Bodnaruk received the first prize.
Tournament C – RSSU Amateur Cup – ended in favor of FIDE Master Pavel Toropov (Russia), who earned 8 points and surpassed Grigory Malyshev (Russia) and FM Kirill Shubin (Russia) on a tie-break.
Vladimir Kachar (Russia) won the senior event with 7.5 points, half a point ahead of Evgeny Vasiukov, Viktor Chernyj, Vladimir Kozlov, Evgeny Kalegin, and Evgeny Ilyushkin (all – Russia).
Galina Strutinskaya won the women's senior prize with 6 points.
At the closing ceremony the winners and runners-up received their prizes from Evgeny Bushmin, RSSU president and deputy chairman of the Federation Council, Natalia Pochinok, president of national student chess league, and Vladimir Palikhata, president of Moscow chess federation.
