International Platonov Arts Festival is having been held in Voronezh since June 2011. Many participants of chess festival are used to visit arts festival events

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!

You can read an article about Voronezh Chess Festival-2018 on FIDE site

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

You can read information about Voronezh Chess Festival-2018 in the article on FIDE site

GM Maksim Chigaev, GM Sergei Tiviakov and GM Vladimir Belous got the maximum of 112 points

Festival press officer Elena Ponomareva show the events in her photos

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)

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

You can see traditional videos by Alexander Shushenkov