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

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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

Rapid Chess Tournaments (June11) gathered 164 participants from 9 countries, including 19 GM+WGM and 21 IM+WIM

GM Vladimir Belous (RUS) and GM Magsoodloo Parkham (IRI) finished with a tie-break after winning 6 games each and a draw between them

Festival-2018 started today (June 10). Chess960 tournament is the first festival tournament, 60 players participate in it including 10 GM and 11 IM

International Platonov Arts Festival, named after the great Russian writer of the 20th century Andrey Platonov, has been held in Voronezh since June 2011

The 21st Voronezh chess festival took place from June 10 to June 21. More than 400 chessplayers from 10 countries participated in six tournaments. Total prize fund of the main festival tournament Master Open was about EUR 18,000 and the first prize was about EUR 3,000. These are the brief figures and some details are following.