Sport programme

The Mind Sports Lounge will attract afficionados of logic board games with deep content. This informal social area offers various chess, go and checkers activities. These games uniquely combine sports, a thrilling challenge and an exercise in strategic thinking, memory and concentration.

In the Lounge, you can participate in a workshop as well as try your hand at tournaments and simultaneous play sessions. You can find a detailed schedule in your personal web office and at the information point of the Mind Sport Lounge.

Chess lovers taking part in the SPILF will be able to compete for the Legal Forum Cup.

The tournament will be played in a round-robin system. The time limit for each game is 5 minutes + 3 seconds for each move, starting from the first.

The event is organized by the Roscongress Foundation’s sports platform, RC Sport, with the support of the St. Petersburg Chess Federation.

Forum participants will be able to compete for the Roscongress Foundation Cup in Draughts. Draughts is one of the most popular logical board games and is well-known by everyone since childhood. But is it so simple? Master of Sport of the USSR and European Veteran Champion Andrey Napreenkov will help us to find out.

The event is organized by the Roscongress Foundation’s sports platform, RC Sport.

The Mind Sports Lounge will attract afficionados of logic board games with deep content. This informal social area offers various chess, go and checkers activities. These games uniquely combine sports, a thrilling challenge and an exercise in strategic thinking, memory and concentration.

In the Lounge, you can participate in a workshop as well as try your hand at tournaments and simultaneous play sessions. You can find a detailed schedule in your personal web office and at the information point of the Mind Sport Lounge.

Forum participants will be able to test their skills in the competition for the Legal Forum Cup of Go.

For more than 4,000 years, Go has been considered the most important tool for developing strategic thinking and memory in Asia. You can learn about the favourite game of Chinese and Japanese emperors, commanders and thinkers at daily master classes in the Mind Sports Lounge.

The event is organized by the Roscongress Foundation’s sports platform, RC Sport, with the support of the Zvezda Go-Centre.

International Grandmaster and head coach of the Russian national youth chess team Sergey Ivanov will test his skills in a simultaneous exhibition against any Forum participant brave enough to challenge him.

The event is being organized by the Roscongress Foundation’s sports platform, RC-Sport, with the support of the Sports Chess Federation of St. Petersburg.

Register your interest in playing against GM Ivanov in your personal web office.

The Mind Sports Lounge will attract afficionados of logic board games with deep content. This informal social area offers various chess, go and checkers activities. These games uniquely combine sports, a thrilling challenge and an exercise in strategic thinking, memory and concentration.

In the Lounge, you can participate in a workshop as well as try your hand at tournaments and simultaneous play sessions. You can find a detailed schedule in your personal web office and at the information point of the Mind Sport Lounge.

Forum participants will be able to compete for the Legal Forum Cup in Draughts. Draughts is one of the most popular logical board games and is well-known by everyone since childhood. But is it so simple? Master of Sport of the USSR and European Veteran Champion Andrey Napreenkov will help us to find out.

The event is organized by the Roscongress Foundation’s sports platform, RC Sport.