The chess festival "Young hopes of the North-West" takes place in Kirishi
(Leningrad region) 23d-25th February. Participants: Kirill Alekseenko (born
1997) - silver medallist of Russian Championship under 10, Championship of
Europe 2007, Maria Butuc (1993) - Champion of Russia 2007 under 14,
Alexander Ganichev (1994) - silver medalist of NW Russian region between
boys under 12-14, Vadim Pischikov (1994) - winner of the Leningrad region
Cup, Evgeny Polonovsky (1994) - Champion of NW region of Russia under 12,
Champion of Leningrad region under 10-14, Vladimir Smirnov (1994) - Champion
of Kirishi under 14. During the festival take place: the rapid chess
tournament (23.02), classical chess tournament "Participants against
computers" (23.02), round robin tournament "Chess 960" (24.02), sheveningen
tournament between participants and local team club "Kinef" (25.02), simults
by GM Evgeny Alekseev against participants of Festival and GM Konstantin
Sakaev against local chess club "Gambit".

Shahcom Company provides live coverage of the games of the rapid chess and
"Chess 960" tournaments in the playing hall and via Internet. The round
starts at 10 a.m. Moscow time (+3 GMT).
Chess 960 (24 February)
Rapid chess (23 February)
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Phil Innes