The international tournament of the tenth category "Young Stars of the World", dedicated to the memory of the chess player Ivan Somov who tragically died three years ago, ended with a victory by the 15-year-old Ukrainian grandmaster Serhiy Karyakin in the Russian city of Kirishi.
In eleven games, Karyakin obtained seven victories and suffered only one defeat. Last year's world champion in the under-14 category, Russian Ildar Khairullin, fell one point behind him. Another representative of Ukraine - 15-year-old international master Yuriy Kuzubov from Kramatorsk - took fifth place.
For first place, Karyakin received a laptop worth 1,700 dollars and a unique book "Valaam Monastery" and an almost one-meter-tall hand-made model of a yacht with the symbolic name "Victoria".