On July 23, International Chess Forum Moscow Open 2023, organized by Moscow City Department of Sport together with the Moscow Chess Federation in the year of the 100th anniversary of Moscow Sport, has ended at Irina Viner-Usmanova Gymnastics Palace.

More than 1,000 chess players from 8 countries took part in the tournament, which lasted for a week.

As part of Moscow Open 2023, Stars’ Tournament was held for the second year in a row. Vladislav Artemiev became the winner, he defeated Evgeny Tomashevsky in the match for the first place. In the match for the third place, Sergey Karjakin won, he turned out to be stronger than Alexander Grischuk.

Arseniy Nesterov won the men’s stage of the Russian Cup, and Baira Kovanova became the winner of the women’s stage for the second year in a row.

Winners of the Children’s Tournaments:
boys under 9: Artem Tsepilov (Nizhny Novgorod region) — 8 points out of 9
girls under 9 years old: Ambartsumyan Angelina (Ryazan region) — 8
boys under 11: Aidan Gafurov (Republic of Dagestan) — 8
girls under 11 years old: Vishtal Olga (St. Petersburg) — 7
boys under 13: Nikita Belinsky (Ryazan region) — 8
girls under 13: Ryzhova Maria (Saratov region) — 8
boys under 15: Mikhail Mashkov (Novosibirsk region) — 7.5
girls under 15: Fedorova Olesya (Moscow) — 8

On the final day, the closing ceremony of Moscow Open 2023 was held with the participation of the President of the Moscow Chess Federation Sergey Lazarev and the sports director of the forum Artem Akhmetov. They awarded the winners and declared the forum closed.