“The battle of regions”. The Polar chess school will compete in the Super League

The team of the Polar chess school of Anatoly Karpov took the first place and won the right to participate in the final fourth inter-club individual-team tournament “The battle of regions” (the Super League). The information was given to the news agency “Sever-Press” in the regional department of physical culture and sports. The third inter-club individual-team tournament “The battle of regions” was held on the Internet portal Lichess.org. It was a qualifying tournament for reaching the final.

As a result, the team of the Polar chess school of Anatoly Karpov scored 212 points, Voronezh oblast — 191 points, the chess school of Anatoly Karpov (Tyumen) — 181 points, Vladimir oblast — 162 points, Volgograd and Kurgan regions – 150 points each, the Republic of Tyva — 60 points, Krasnoyarsk Krai — 54 points.  

According to the department, the tournament was held in three groups, according to the results of which the top three teams moved from the group stage to the final stage of the competitions — the Super League. The tournament brought together teams from different parts of our country, in total 22 teams were represented in three groups.

In the first tournament, which lasted 60 minutes, the participants played with the time control 5 minutes for the entire game + 2 seconds added for each made move (the blitz). The team of the Polar chess school of Anatoly Karpov played in group 2, where they met in a sharp tournament battle with representatives of Moscow oblast, Lipetsk oblast, Kursk oblast, Khabarovsk Krai, Tyumen oblast and Krasnoyarsk Krai.   

In total 245 players competed on the chess fields in the second group, 72 participants represented the Polar chess school of Anatoly Karpov, and the best results were shown by Roman Lavretsky (23 points), Bogdan Belyakov (22 points) and Alexander Potapov (21 points). In a hard battle the team of the school, scoring 144 points, took the third place, only one point ahead of the representatives of Khabarovsk Krai, and thus the team won the right to participate in the fourth inter-club individual-team tournament “The battle of regions” (the Super League). In the end the team of Moscow oblast scored 177 points, Lipetsk oblast — 160 points, the Polar chess school of Anatoly Karpov (Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug) — 144 points, Khabarovsk Krai — 143 points, the Chess school of Anatoly Karpov (Tyumen) — 130 points, Kursk oblast — 108 points, Krasnoyarsk Krai — 14 points.

The second tournament took place immediately after the end of the first one, it also lasted 60 minutes, but with the different time control — 3 minutes for the entire game + 1 second added for each made move (the super blitz). The competition was attended by 25 teams divided into three groups.

The team of the Polar chess school of Anatoly Karpov (Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug) in group 2 came together in the chess battle with the opponents from Voronezh oblast, Tyumen oblast, Volgograd oblast, Vladimir oblast, Kursk oblast, the Republic of Tyva and Krasnoyarsk Krai. In total 167 people played in the tournament, 61 of them represented the team of the Polar chess school of Anatoly Karpov (Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug). The team of Yamal confidently took the leading position throughout the competition and scored 212 points, taking the first place, which gave the right to participate in the final fourth inter-club individual-team tournament “The battle of regions” (the Super League). The best result was shown by Alexander Potapov (29 points), Ivan Matviyenko (29), Yelena Semyonova (28) and Ademir Bratov (28).