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A friendly chess tournament between teams from twin cities and partner cities in the Russian Federation and the People's Republic of China.

18 November 2024

The team fromTogliatti chess school took part in an online tournament between teams from sister cities.Zhigulevskaya Dolina Technopark provided assistance in organizing the tournament and technical equipment. The competitions were held on the online chess platform lichess.org. Teams from 26 cities took part, 9 of which represented the People's Republic of China. The geography of Russian participants was extensivefrom Yalta and Donetsk to Yakutsk and Irkutsk. The team from Togliatti chess school was represented by Egor Koshulyan, Nikolai Moskovka, Luka Azimov, Timofey Konovalov, Semyon Yurasov, and Margarita Yagutyan. Based on the total number of points scored, our team took 6th place among 26 participants. Gulnara Salakhova, director of the MBUDO Secondary School No. 4 Chess: Such tournaments are interesting primarily because of the geographical diversity of the participants. We watched with particular interest the game of representatives from the Chinese twin city of Shenzhen. Previously, we held match meetings with them in Shenzhen and Togliatti. It was interesting to see how their level of play had changed.