Chess for Our Own Karjakin reports tournament

Jul 29–31

Karjakin describes Chess for Our Own as veteran rehabilitation with sixteen Moscow-region clubs, including medical facilities. He reports the first nationwide tournament in Nizhny Tagil July 29–31 with 114 veterans and Sergey Pompa from Donetsk as winner, plus a strategy conference and cultural visits. He plans expansion to twenty-five to thirty regions and another tournament next year, and thanks the Defenders of the Fatherland foundation and Council leadership. Matviyenko praises his work. Plans and reported participant figures are not completed future outcomes.

Karjakin reports the first nationwide Chess for Our Own tournament for military-operation veterans in Nizhny Tagil July 29–31, supported by the Defenders of the Fatherland foundation. He gives 114 participants and Sergey Pompa from Donetsk as winner, with strategic and cultural activities and plans for wider rehabilitation work.