29 April 2015

Alina Bivol and Ivan Bukavshin win Russian U21 Championships

Elizaveta Solozhenkina won her third U13 championship.

Alina Bivol
Alina Bivol
Russian Junior Championships in classical chess ended in Loo village of the Krasnodar Krai. These competitions determined champions in six age groups. 

The most prestigious championships under 21 were won by GM Ivan Bukavshin (Samara Region) wih 6/9, and WIM Alina Bivol (Moscow Region) with 7/9.



Other champions:

Boys U11 – Makoveev (Krasnodar Krai)
Girls U11 – Mironenko (Volgograd Region)

Boys U13 – Tsoi (Moscow)
Girls U13 – Solozhenkina (St. Petersburg). The daughter of GM Evgeny Solozhenkin also won Russian championships in blitz and rapid chess in her age group. 

Boys U15 – Gajfullin (Bashkortostan)
Girls U15 – Maltsevskaya (Rostov Region)

Boys U17 – Tryapishko (Crimea)
Girls U17 – Potapova (Crimea)

Boys U19 – Fajzrakhmanov (Tatarstan)
Girls U19 – Styazhkina (St. Petersburg)

Russian Chess Federation congratulates all the medal winners and wishes them success in future!