Mintimer Shaimiev and Anatoly Karpov visit superfinal of Russian chess championship

On November 28, Tatarstan State Counsellor, member of the Board of Guardians of Russian chess federation Mintimer Shaimiev and 12-time world champion, deputy of State Duma of the Federal Assembly Anatoly Karpov visited men’s and woman’s superfinal games of Russian chess championship at “Khazine” national art gallery at the Kazan Kremlin.

Mintimer Shaimiev and Anatoly Karpov looked around the exhibition of pictures of Nikolay Feshin, where young artists from Kazan art school named after N.I.Feshin were painting portraits of famous chess players of the country. The guests also saw black-and-white pictures about chess taken by photographers of different times, and watched online broadcasts of superfinal matches.

Summing up the excursion, Mintimer Shaimiev thanked organizers of superfinal events, especially Russian chess federation, and charity foundation of Elena and Gennady Timchenko.

The championship is organized by Russian chess federation, charity foundation of Elena and Gennady Timchenko under the auspices of Tatarstan Government.