Indian Schoolchildren Lead Belaya Ladya Final Tournament

7 rounds out of 9 are played in Dagomys.

The 48th final tournament of the traditional all-Russian scholastic chess team event Belaya Ladya goes on in Dagomys. On Tuesday, June 6, rounds 6 and 7 were played. 

The Indian schoolchildren won against their coevals from Sverdlovsk Oblast 3-1 in round 6 and then outplayed the team from Novosibirsk Oblast 4-0. Thanks to such great victories, the Indian team has become the sole leader of the event with 23.5 points. The team from Armenia is second (21 points), while Saint Petersburg gymnasia pupils are on third place (19 points). 

80 Russian and 17 foreign (Armenia, Belarus, Bulgaria, China, England, Estonia, Greece, India, Israel, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Moldavia, Mongolia, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia) teams are taking part in the competition. The organizers are the Russian Chess Federation and Ministry of Sport of the Russian Federation. The competition is also supported by Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, Elena and Gennady Timchenko Charitable Foundation, Renault Russia Company, Federal Grid Company of Unified Energy System (FGC UES), and PhosAgro.

On Wednesday, June 7, the penultimate round 8 will be played. The key matches are India-China and Armenia-Saint Petersurg.

Tournament on Chess-Results

Tournament page  

Photos by Vladimir Barsky