31
May
2010
Wunderkind 2010 Children’s Chess Tournament opens
The traditional Wunderkind 2010 Children’s Chess
Tournament started in Ulan-Ude at the city’s chess club on May 29.
This year it is being held for the 13th time, and for the second
time for the set of prizes of Bair Dashievich Tsyrenov. Mr.
Tsyrenov is the president of the Shatar Chess Club and Deputy
General Director of MBC Corporation, Metropol Group of
companies.
It was MBC Corporation that sponsored the tournament, which is
known to bring together very young chess masters. Keeping with
tradition, the Wunderkind event consisted of two tournaments. The
first one, called Wunderkind, is for preschool age children who
will start school this year, and the second one, called First
Former+, is for players who have completed the first form.
As usual, there were many participants this year, which is, of
course, gratifying. It shows that chess is still very popular in
Buryatia, particularly in Ulan-Ude. At the opening ceremony of the
young players’ tournament, their mothers, fathers and grandparents
were welcomed by Bator Tsyrenov, Deputy Director of
MBC Corporation branch office; Vyacheslav Shomoyev,
Director of Children’s and Youth Sports School (DYUSSH)-8; Yevgeny
Bainov, a coach from DYUSSH-8 who is chief organizer of this
tournament (who established it and has kept it going for many
years); and chief tournament referee Hayan Garmazhapov.
Bator Tsyrenov, Deputy Branch Director of MBC Corporation said,
“Our corporation has been supporting sports in Buryatia including
chess for years. Everyone knows about the success achieved by
Buryat players. The Shatar Metropol team has made a good showing in
the Premier League of the Russian Club Championship, and a
tournament veteran, Anzama Sharapova, won the Russian Speed Chess
Championship. It is good to know that we had something to do with
these successes”.
METROPOL Group of companies, and MBC Corporation in particular,
consider chess an intelectual game that develops the ability to
think strategically, to think over one’s actions several moves
ahead. A person who knows how to play chess shows promise not only
in chess, but in other fields as well.
