Russian Youth Rapid Champions Determined in Sochi

Players under 15, 17, and 19 years old competed.

The Russian Youth Rapid Championship among boys and girls under 15, 17, and 19 years old finished in the AquaLoo resort in Sochi. The results are as follows:

U15, girls:

1. Nomina Darmaeva (Buryatia) - 8 points out of 9; 2. Yana Zhapova (Zabaykalsky Krai / Novosibirsk Oblast) - 7.5, 3. Alena Volchkova (Kurgan Oblast) - 7; 

U15, open:

1. Argisht Voskanyan (Sverdlovsk Oblast) - 8, 2. Kirill Otdelnov (Kemerovo Oblast) - 7.5, 3. Maksim Volkov (Mari El) - 7;

U17, girls:

1. Marina Kuznetsova (Kursk Oblast) - 7.5, 2-3. Olga Karmanova (Saint Petersburg), Veronika Shubenkova (Nizhny Novgorod Oblast) - 7;

U17, open:

1-2. Grigori Ponomarev (Kemerovo Oblast), 2. Dmitry Rostovtsev (Moscow) - 7.5, 3. Nikita Shemyakinskiy (Saint Petersburg) - 7;

U19, girls:

1. Alisa Nur-Mukhametova (Tatarstan) - 8, 2. Ekaterina Nasyrova (Tatarstan) - 7.5, 3. Valeriia Reger (Saint Petersburg) - 6;

U19, open:

1. Volodar Murzin (Moscow Oblast) - 8.5, 2-3. Semen Kazmin (Lipetsk Oblast), Stefan Pogosyan (Moscow) - 6.5.

The Russian Youth and Junior Championships, as well as the all-Russian competition "First League" will start on the 21st of April.   

Photos by A. Domchenkova 

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