4 June 2018
Indian Schoolchildren Lead Belaya Ladya Final in Dagomys
Sverdlovsk region and Moscow are behind.
On June 4th, the third and fourth rounds of the 49th final tournament of the open all-Russian scholastic chess team event Belaya Ladya (also known as White Rook) were played in Dagomys (Sochi).
In round 3, the Indian chess players defeated schoolchildren from Sverdlovsk Oblast 2.5-1.5 and then crushed the team from Astrakhan Oblast 4-0.
India is leading the pack with 14.5 points. Children from Sverdlovsk Oblast are trailing by 1.5 points, while the young Muscovites have scored 12 points.
Tournament on Chess-Results
This year, 100 teams from 78 regions of Russia and 21 countries of the world will take part in the final event. Apart from schoolchildren from Armenia, Belarus, England, Estonia, Greece, India, Israel, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Moldavia, Mongolia, Romania, Slovakia, there are also players from the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Kenia, Serbia, Sweden, and Turkmenistan.
A team from orphanages and boarding schools is participating in the final competition for the fourth year in a row. Children from the Boarding School №26 from Ryazan Oblast, who won the Ascension tournament (Sochi, 2018), joined other participants in the Belaya Ladya final.
Traditionally, a vast cultural and entertaining program will accompany the event. Master classes, lectures, games analysis, mind games, contests, and sport events will be organized. A two-time Russian champion, a three-time Olympic champion Alexander Morozevich, former European champion, coach of the Russian national women’s chess team Evgeniy Najer, and a three-time world champion in chess composition Oleg Pervakov will work with children. Coaches and pedagogues will be invited to take part in a roundtable discussions which will be held by the RCF Executive Director Mark Glukhovsky and other speakers.
On June 4-5, the all-Russian conference of teachers and pedagogues of additional education, who were taking an active part in the Chess Universal Education in Russia contest, will take place in Dagomys during Belaya Ladya.
In parallel with Belaya Ladya, the final competition of Chess in Schools project, which is conducted by the Russian Chess Federation together with Elena and Gen-nady Timchenko Charitable Foundation, will be held. 9 teams from Kemerovo, Novosibirsk, and Pskov regions, Altai Krai, Krasnodar Krai, Zabaykalsky Krai, Chuvashia, Ingushetia, Udmurtia, and will take part in it.
Tournament page
Photos by Vladimir Barsky
