Chess in Russia - U8 boys

I begin my chess blog with information about children chess tourneys in Russia as it is the biggest chess country with most players and World champions as for men and women as for all the children age groups.

Russia U8 boys chess championship finished on 1st July 2008 in Kostroma.

The winner is SARANS, Aleksey. Here is the leaderboard:

1. SARANS, Aleksey born 26.01.2000 from MOSCOW - 8.52.


2. CHILINGARYAN, Pavel born 11.02.2000 from Moscow - 8.03.


3. ELISTRATOV, Semen, born 13.01.2000 from SAMARA- 8.04.


4. Mashkov, Leonid born 23.06.2000 from ORENBURG - 7.55.


5. VDOVIN, Dmitriy born 25.10.2000 from Moscow - 7.56.


6. Grigoryev, Oleg born 06.08.2000 from Saint Petersburg - 7.5