Moscow Chess Championship 2013 - Cool Videos

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Hi everyone, 

Here are some videos shot by Eugene Potemkin at the Moscow 2013 Chess Championships.

 

 

 

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Moscow Chess 2013: Cool Videos

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

Hi everyone, 

In Moscow, the buildings RSSU from 2 to 10 February is the traditional chess festival Moscow Open 2013. It includes eight tournaments. The Main Event of the Swiss system of 9 rounds with a prize fund of 1,210,000 rubles includes  230 players. Top ten: Ian Nepomniachtchi (2703), D. Khismatullin (2655), R. Mamedov (2651), I. Khairullin (2650), E. Najer (2647), E. Itturizaga (2646), M. Krasenkow (2643) , I. Nizhnik (2637), D. Kokarev (2635), A. Demchenko (2627). Some nice videos by Eugene Potemkin.

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Special Chess Event in Moscow: Boris Spassky Guest of Honour

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

Hi everyone,

Chess great Boris Spassky attended a special event in Moscow on the occasion of Christmas.  Boris Spassky visited Evgeny Vasiukov's Handicap Chess Tournament in the Central House of Chess, according to a Chess-News report. There is also a report with lots of pictures at Russia Chess Federation website.

The traditional handicap-tournament was held in the Central House of Chess today. The author of the current handicap system and the organiser of the competition Evgeny Vasiukov reached the event along with Boris Spassky and inaugurated the tournament. Here is a photo by Vladimir Barsky (russiachess.org) and video by Eugene Potemkin (chess-news.ru).

The rating favourite of the competition Alexander Grischuk won the event, with Maxim Dlugy being second and Daniil Dubov wining third place ahead of Vasily Papin on tie-break. Anna Burtasova was the strongest among women and Evgeny Vasiukov among veterans.



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