5 June 2017

Schoolchildren From Saint Petersburg Lead Belaya Ladya Final Tournament

4 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 Sunday, June 4, rounds 3 and 4 were played. 

Schoolchildren from Saint Petersburg are leading the pack after 4 rounds. They won all the matches and scored 13 board points (8 match points). The Indian team has 13 board points, but 7 match points (three match victories and a draw with the Armenian team). The team from Nizhny Novgorod Oblast is at the third place - 12,5 (8) 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 Monday, June 5, round 5 games will be played. 

Tournament on Chess-Results

Tournament page


Photos by Vladimir Barsky