Last weekend, January 31 and February 1, the festival of intellectual games Lariks 2015 was held at the Molodezhnaya Hotel.
Larix is ​​known as a checkered Moscow-Open under the auspices of which other intellectual games are assembled, such as go, reversi, xiangqi, renju and gomoku. A total of 46 people took part in the Renju and Gomoku tournaments. The Larix Festival is held for the third year, the first festival was also held at the Molodezhnaya Hotel.

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This year, for the first time, the Gomoku tournament took place, a round robin in 9 rounds with time control 30 + 15, debut time limit swap 2.

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Tournament results:
1 Elizarov Pavel 8
2 Muratov Ilya 7.5
3 Lomakin Mikhail 6.5
4 Sinitsyn Vladimir 5.5 (23.5)
5 Osipov Denis 5.5 (14.75)
6 Bogatyrev Alexander 3 (9,5)
7 Lomakina Olga 3 (7)
8 Maslov Maxim 3 (5)
9 Gorbachev Dmitry 2
10 Muratova Tatyana 1

The Renju tournament also took place on January 31-February 1, although in previous years the tournament began on Friday evening and lasted for three days. Apparently due to the decrease in the number of days played, the time control was reduced to 40 + 15. Debut regulations Tarannikova.

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Tournament results:
1 Nikonov Konstantin 6
2 Taiblin Yuri 5
3 Mesila Willem 4.5
4 Semenov Oleg 4.5
5 Magdeev Igor 4,5
6 Mikhailov Alexander 4
7 Nikita Dyachkov 4
8 Mikryukov Mikhail 4
9 Metreveli George 4
10 Sirategyan Karen 3.5
11 votes Victor 3,5
12 Kurdina Olga 3,5
13 Lavrik-Karmazin Maxim 3
14 Yusupmurzin Danila 2
15 Ponezhin Gennady 2
16 Prokopyev Ruslan 2
17 Metreveli Maxim 2
18 Stoyanov Kirill 1

Also within the framework of the festival, a children’s tournament on Renju – the open youth championship of Moscow was held. It is noteworthy that this particular competition has the most profound history (for the first time it was held in RGSU during the Moscow-Open chess tournament, then Alla Makhina won the boot team). Three winners of this year:
1 Kuzmina Alexandra Podyuga
2 Muugamäe Erik Tallinn
3 Nilov Lev Moscow