4 June 2022

Second Round of Belaya Ladya Final Completed in Olginka

The Debut team competition has started.


The second round of the all-Russian school team competition "Belaya Ladya" final was played in the AMAKS Resort "Orbita" (Olginka, Krasnodar Krai) on 3 June. Fifteen teams are leading the race with two matches won. The schools of Moscow and Novosibirsk Oblast gained  victories in two matches with a clean score. The next round will be played on 4 June at 10 AM Moscow time. The competition is a 9-round Swiss event. Each team consists of four players (with at least one girl) and one coach. The match days are 2-10 June.

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A research-to-practice conference, a part of the Chess in Schools project realised by the Chess Federation of Russia and the Elena and Gennady Timchenko Foundation, has begun. The regional resource centres were discussed on the first day.

Grandmasters Sergei Rublevsky and Mikhail Kobalia gave master classes for the participants and their coaches. The many-time world champion in chess solving Oleg Pervakov delivered a lecture and demonstrated several spectacular studies. A bughouse chess tournament was held as well.

The Debut team tournament, an annual final event of the Chess in Schools project, has started on June 4. The participants are the pupils of schools from 17 regions of Russia, which have taken part in the project. A team is composed of four players (not less than one girl) born in 2013 and later and one team manager / captain.   

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The tournament is organised by the Chess Federation of Russia and the Russian Ministry of Sports and supported by the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation and the Elena and Gennady Timchenko Foundation. The CFR general partner is PhosAgro. The CFR Partner is Aeroflot. 

Photos by Vladimir Barsky