Russian Championships Superfinals to Be Held on December 5-17 in Moscow
The venue will be the Central Chess Club.
The Chess Federation of Russia and the Elena and Gennady Timchenko Foundation decided to hold the Russian Championships Superfinals among men and women in Moscow. The event will take place in the Central Chess Club on December 5-17, 2020.
Since 2012, the Chess Federation of Russia and the Timchenko Foundation have organised chess tournaments in the leading museums of Russia and the whole world. The World Chess Championship match between Vishy Anand and Boris Gelfand took place in the State Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow) in 2012. In 2013, the CFR and the Timchenko Foundation held the Alekhine Memorial. The first half of the super tournament was played in the Louvre (Paris), the second part took place in the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg. The Museum of Russian Impressionism in Moscow hosted the Tal Memorials in 2016 and 2018.
Almost all Russian Championships Superfinals are held as part of the Chess in Museums programme. The tournaments took place in the Rukavishnikov's Mansion in Nizhny Novgorod (2013), the Museum of Art in the Kazan Kremlin (2014), the Novosibirsk State Museum of Local History (2016), and the State Museum of Political History of Russia in Saint Petersburg (2017). In 2018, the players competed for the titles in the Magnezit Palace of Culture in Satka, where the exhibition of the well-known Soviet and Russian painter Geliy Korzhev was opened. In 2019, the Superfinals were held in two venues in the Udmurt Republic - in the Tchaikovsky Museum in Votkinsk, and the Palace of Peoples' Friendship in Izhevsk.
The best Chess Museum of the world is located in the Central Chess Club in Moscow. Its collection contains around 4 thousand unique items. Since 2014, the excursions around the Museum have been regularly conducted. In 2020, the Museum will fling the door open into a digital space: its official website will be launched and a series of videos about its most valuable exhibits will be made.
Igor Baradachev, director of the Sports Programme of the Timchenko Foundation:
- Each year, we organise social side events as part of the Chess in Museums programme. The master classes and simultaneous exhibitions for children and seniors are held on rest days. In 2020, there will be both offline and online activities.
The Superfinals are supported by the Renault Russia company. The general sponsor of the Russian national chess teams is Rosseti FGC UES. The general partner of the Chess Federation of Russia is PhosAgro.
