Press Release, 14.12.2024

Photo: Tournament winners Yury Khoroshev, Maxim Parshin and Sergei Sukhanov

On 14 December, Yabloko held a chess tournament in memory of Yabloko Deputy Chair Sergei Ivanenko: 28 chess players, aged 17 to 72 from different regions of the country, from Moscow to Krasnoyarsk, party members and supporters, competed for several hours at the party’s central office in Moscow. The winners were Maxim Parshin, Yuri Khoroshev and Sergei Sukhanov.

Sergey Ivanenko (1959 – 2024), Deputy Chairman of Yabloko, member of its Federal Political Committee, USSR Master of Sports in chess, was the strongest chess player in the State Duma, where he worked in 1993 – 2003. In the 2000s, he was Vice President of the Russian Chess Federation and Chairman of the Russian Chess League.

Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov addressed the participants and spectators of the chess competition. He thanked the players and also told that the main result of the intellectual activity of humanity today should be achieving peace.

“Miguel de Cervantes once said that a chess game was like a human life: at the end of it, both kings and pawns are put in one box. I hope that our world will come to the point where all disputes will be resolved, at most, in chess games, and the victims will be wooden chess figures, not people,” Nikolai Rybakov addressed the chess players.

The Sergei Ivanenko Memorial Tournament was held according to the Swiss system in six rounds. Each participant was given 15 minutes for a game.

The winner of the tournament was Maxim Parshin. Maxim is 21 years old, and comes from the Vladimir region, he is a candidate for master of sports in chess, and a fourth-year student of the Russian University of Sports GCOLIFK. The winner won all the games.

The second place went to 54-year-old Yuri Khoroshev from the city of Korolyov in the Moscow region, and the third place went to 40-year-old Muscovite Sergei Sukhanov.

The prizes for the three winners were glass statuettes in the shape of an apple – the work of students from the St.Petersburg Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Industry. Each participant in the tournament in Yabloko received a commemorative certificate.

We thank Marina Karavayeva and Ivan Dorofeyev, members of the Moscow Yabloko, for the idea of ​​holding the tournament and its implementation!