Russian Students' Chess Winners: GM Igor Lysyj and Yulia Dogodkina

Chess Blog for Daily Chess News and Trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2013

Hello everyone,

The Russian Chess Championships for students were held from 24th September to 2nd October at the SGSEU chess club in Saratov. The tournament was played over nine rounds of Swiss system and draw offers were not allowed before move 40. GM Igor Lysyj from the Ural State Mining University convincingly won the title after concluding the race with 8,5/9 points. 

Nikita Matinyan (SGSEU), Alexandr Predke and Ivan Bukavshin (both - USMU) finished on shared 2nd place full point behind the winner. You can find more details and photographs at the official website of the Russian Students' Chess Tournament.
 

In the team competition the first place goes to Ural State Mining University (Ekaterinburg), second to SGSEU (Saratov), and third to KNITU (Kazan). Among the girls Yulia Dogodkina (SGSEU) excelled with 8,0/9 points. Viktoria Tarasova (SGSEU) is second, while Irina Petruhina (Tomsk) is third. SGSEU team won the team competition among girls. KNITU is second and the USMU is third.

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Igor Lysyj, Marina Romanko win RSSU Chess Cup 2012

Chess blog for latest chess news and chess trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2012

Hi everyone,

Igor Lysyj and Marina Romanko have won the RSSU Chess Cup 'Moscow Open 2012'. 

Leading in the second part of the tournament Russian Dmitry Kokarev in the last round lost to his compatriot Igor Lysyj and let him the head the table. The winner scored 7,5 points, half-point more than his three competitors.

Three Russian chess-players shared 2-4 places: Dmitry Kokarev, Ernesto Inarkiev and 15 years old Urii Eliseev – due to tie-breaks.

A total of 190 participants from 15 countries including 62 international grandmasters took part in competition.

Russian Marina Romanko won the Cup of Russia among women. On tie-breaks the second place was won by the Chinese Huang Qian, the third – Russian Daria Charochkina. Russians Kovanova Baira, Elmira Mirzoeva, Ekaterina Atalik from Turkey and Nazi Paikidze from Georgia did not enter into medal-winners. Suren Poghosyan from Armenia won the amateur section. Read more details at Fide.

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