In the main building of the Russian state social university took place a closing ceremony of international chess festival Moscow Open 2009. The rector of the Russian state social university Vasily Zhukov, 12th world champion Anatoly Karpov, senator Alexander Pochinok and CEO of Global Chess company Geoffrey Borg took part in the ceremony.

Ex-world champion Anatoly Karpov told about history and prospects of the festival. - When the festival only began, nobody thought that it would increase till such big size – today Moscow open beats all records, - he noted. The university created remarkable conditions for festival. Today RSSU is serious base for development of chess. And not only sports, higher skill, but also curriculums. In the near future the international seminars will be organized, there is already begun the program on development of chess at schools, and I think that all will develop in a positive direction in the future.
The rector of the Russian state social university Vasily Zhukov greeted and congratulated winners. – RSSU is honor to be among organizers again and accept chess players practically from every country all over the world. For 9 days the university became a capital of the chess world, and we would like, that these days gradually turned to continuous year of a celebration of the most intellectual and responsibly kind of sport. The tournament Moscow Open develops together with development of RSSU. We can look ahead with optimism with the assistance of such partners as the World chess federation.

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