Chess projects are investments in the Russian future
On October 7 Sergey Karjakin’s chess club was opened in the lyceum named after N.G. Bulakin in Abakan with the assistance of Intellion company group
Video provided by the “Lyceum named after N.G. Bulakin”.
The 65-th chess club of “United Russia” project will work in the social support office in the Khakass Republic and will act as a place that will provide support to develop the skills of the young regional chess players. The ceremony participants included the Russian senator, multiple world champion and the president of the Moscow Region Chess Federation Sergey Karjakin, Abakan city mayor Aleksey Lemin, the chief secretary of the Supreme Council of the Khakass Republic Anastasiya Kochergina, Intellion Data Systems general director Timofey Semenov, №11 lyceum director Irina Yakovleva, social support office leader Kristina Saratovkina as well as the director of the project “Sergey Karjakin’s chess clubs and executive director of the Moscow region Chess Federation Albert Minnullin.
“I am so glad to be here, in Abakan, I feel that people are very interested in chess. I see many children with a chess passion in their eyes. One should simply come here for a week and simply play with them, talk and it’s great! Our goal is, of course, to support such a chess passion and create conditions so that the kids could learn to play chess. I am indeed very happy that chess classes in clubs, that we open, will be absolutely free”, — commented Sergey Karjakin.
“Chess is not just a simple passion, it’s not just a game that imitates life. Chess is a powerful tool that forms up character and develops intellectual skills. One can become a real chess master only if you start learning from the mistakes that you made. The same way as we do in our life”, — said Aleksey Lemin commented at the opening ceremony.
Photo by “United Russia” social support office in the Khakass Republic press office.
It has already become a tradition for the world champion to offer a signed chess board. Sergey Karjakin and Aleksey Lemin also played a game of chess that ended in a friendly draw. Another draw showed up on the board against the leading player of the Khakass Republic, candidate master, Russian championship U19 bronze medal winner Stepan Kharkevich.
After the ceremony the world champion talked to young chess players and answered their questions. There were lots of those who wanted to talk to a famous grandmaster and have a photo with him. More than 300 kids came on that day!
Further on Sergey Karjakin performed a simultaneous game on 14 boards. The players were very strong and the game lasted for more than 2 hours but the world champion managed to win all the games. Leonid Popov received a book signed by Karjakin as the best player of the day.
Photo by “United Russia” social support office in the Khakass Republic press office.
Karjakin and the city mayor agreed to open another Sergey Karjakin’s chess club in Abakan. The club will work in a new city lyceum and will be opened for schoolchildren before the end of this year. Intellion group company will provide support for the club.
Intellion Data Systems general director Timofey Semenov said: “Chess is not just a simple game, it is a school of strategic thinking. We believe that such initiatives will not only help kids to develop their intellectual skills but will also teach them to take adequate decisions in hard situations. Intellion supports projects that develop young generations as this is an investment in the Russian future.”
Photo by “United Russia” social support office in the Khakass Republic press office.
Intellion group company is a leading Russian vertically integrated operator that deals with data centers infrastructure for energy intensive calculation equipment. The company acts as a partner of JSC “Rosenergoatom concern” within the data processing center close to Kalininskaya nuclear plant in the Tver Region. The company owns a few sites in the Khakass Republic, Murmansk and Samara Regions with a total capacity of 290 megawatts. The company acts as a resident of the Russian arctic zone.
