7 October 2017
Sochi Hosts Russian Senior Championship
Round 1 games are played.
Not all top seeds managed to win their starting games in the main event. For example, Anatoli Shvedchikov lost to Viktor Melnik. The games Iliushkin - V. Zhelnin, Balashov - Vul, Chudinovskikh - Kalegin, Tunik - Volodin, Bratus - Karasev, Mishuchkov - Shushpanov, Y. Zhelnin - Gubernatorov, Gridnev - Filipenko, and Lopukhin - Archangelsky were drawn.
Some of the rating favorites of the the First league - Yury Gorshkov, Viktor Ignatyev and Vasilij Ibraev - lost their games.
In the women’s event, the majority of the higher-rated players won at the start. The games Fatalibekova - Ovsiannikova and Kabanova - Mednikova were drawn.
Tournament on Chess-Results
Photos by Svetlana Ostrovskaya