Contrasts oil region. Children's Chess Academy in Khanty-Mansiysk

First Russian Chess Academy was built in Khanty-Mansiysk.
Ultra-unique three-level building made of glass and metal without any acute angle with windows smiley, stylized chess piece, was built in Ugra capital for two years by the famous Dutch architect Erich van Egeraat ...
Look at this beauty.




Building area 2845 square meters, which housed classrooms and halls for various purposes, equipped with the latest technology and IT training. At the same time there may be engaged in more than a hundred players. The main highlight of the building - room-transformer, which is changing depending on the format of the event taking place. In September 2010, this building was held the 39th World Chess Olympiad, as well as the Assembly and the Congress of FIDE.



In the foyer of the Academy of visitors immediately see a huge chessboard with figures of growth in the 10-year-old child. In each of the 64 fields that huge board signature known and not so well-known players who visited the academy.



Smiling black horse



Foyer - the kingdom of light, marble and design



Here, on the first floor, the classrooms are located. They are equipped with the most modern simulators. There is even one which once played Garry Kasparov



Simulations are of different generations. There are even some who themselves move the pieces



In the children's classroom



There is an active discussion of the strategy group game against conventional computer



In addition to a huge board in the lobby, there is also another unique chessboard with beautiful carvings. Somebody's gift academy



Playing white ...



Again laughing horse.



On the second tier of the Academy you raise ultramodern glass elevators



The foyer of the second level no less elegant than the first. Here, the kingdom of wood, glass and light



And this is the most unique room-transformer, which can be adapted to the different formats of the competition



The adjacent room, which can in a few minutes to join the main hall



Even the toilet is impossible to forget about chess ...



Source: aquatek-filips.livejournal.com