A conference of Voronezh region chess federation has been held on May 15. GM Alexander Raetsky has been elected the new federation president.

Association of Chess Professionals included two events of Voronezh (the main tournament and the rapid tournament) festival into ACP Tour 2019.

Participation of a lot of young talented players is typical for Voronezh chess festival. Of course, most of them are Russians, but Indian prodigies are also very numerous last years. Chessbase India site invites Indian chessplayers to Voronezh festival and lists its attracting features.

Chess960 tournament has been held in Voronezh since year 2012. This year FIDE announced the official Chess960 World Championship, and Voronezh Chess960 tournament is a good opportunity to practice before playing in its qualification stage!

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