20-year-old Serbian Grandmaster Milan Zajić is the winner of the first Student Chess Cup of the Koper Branch of MGU Lomonosov, which was part of the University open days, on Saturday, April 20. As many as 89 chess players from 16 countries took part in the tournament and was of high quality: 1 Grandmaster, 9 International masters and 14 FIDE masters. The average rating of the top ten chess players was as high as 2424 points.
The organizers - the Lomonosov Institute and the European Chess Academy have distributed wonderful awards, scholarships and tuition fees worth over 50,000 euros.
Final standings:
Zajić (Serbia) and Dobrovoljc (Slovenia) 7,5, Skuhala (Slovenia) and Usmanov (Russia) 7, Tomaszewski (Poland), Krylov in Niudleev (both Russia), Tisaj (Slovenia), Nikolovski (North Macedonija), Kuhmazov (Rusia) and Radovanović (Serbia) 6,5 etc.
Women: Dordzhieva (Russia) 6,5, Unuk (Slovenia) 6, Hreščak (Slovenia), Cvitan (Croatia) and Orshonova (Russia) 5,5 etc.
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