12-year-old Javokhir Sindarov from Uzbekistan achieved his first GM norm at Voronezh chess festival-2018. Now he achieved all three needed norms and become the second youngest GM in the world!
More info >>Voronezh chess festival-2018 finished today, June 21. Four grandmasters from Russia shared the first place, Dmitry Kokarev is the winner by tie-break, he repeated his success achieved in year 2011
More info >>You can read information about Voronezh Chess Festival-2018 in the article on FIDE site
More info >>GM Maksim Chigaev, GM Sergei Tiviakov and GM Vladimir Belous got the maximum of 112 points
More info >>June 17 is a day of the blitz tournament in Voronezh festival, 157 chessplayers from 9 countries participated in it including 17 GM+WGM and 16 IM+WIM. GM Artyom Timofeev (RUS) took a sole first place with 8 points of 9 (7 wins and 2 draws)
More info >>Master Open tournament is the main event of the Voronezh chess festival, it started June 12. 131 players from 11 countries, 26 GM+WGM and 28 IM+WIM among them
More info >>There is triple tie-break for first place in rapid tournament results: GM Maksim Chigaev (RUS) is the first, GM Sergei Tiviakov (NED) is the second. GM Vladimir Belous (RUS) it the third after winning Chess960 tournament
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