In Voronezh the 22nd international chess festival "Alyokhin's Memorial" came to the end

This tournament became for a long time one of city cards. Exactly thanks to it, about the capital of the Chernozem region tell in different corners of a planet, as about the strongest chess city Russian Federation. Stability became feature of a chess festival of this year. For six years its program remains invariable, and the number of participants varies within four hundred. Any tournament can envy such number of athletes. Raetsky Alexander, the director of the international chess festival tells: "About 40 regions... It is a lot of this year participants from Far East...