The life of antichess in Russia outside FAR

Antichess outside the FAR? My little shock

Does someone know about anti and play them live?!
I was a little shocked when I found out that offline anti tournaments are played not only in Amsterdam, but also in Moscow! And even more often.
It's funny, but it was all organized by enthusiasts who did not know at all that there was an antichess federation. Although how many people, in principle, know about the existence of FAR? 200 at most.

I'm supposed to be going to the "Lad'ya" on Wednesday...

Our friend @alexkalug told me that there are such chess tournaments, for which I am infinitely grateful to him. :)
The venue is unusual, but this only gives a "degree" of interest. :P
That Wednesday, overcoming fatigue after lessons, laziness and fear, I rushed there and, as it turned out, for good reason. :)

MCC, the atmosphere, the tournament itself

The Moscow Chess Club organizes all these tournaments.
They play classic games in "Yuzhnaya" on Monday and Tuesday, and on Wednesday they gather in "Lad'ya", where they play variants (chess + uno, Swedes, three checks, anti, etc.).
The atmosphere is cool, friendly, I liked it. They write the truth, I want to go to the tournament again, you can even go to the classic ones. :D
Sucked me in, will not let me go now. :P

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Antichess960 tournament = love.
Although I greatly underestimated the opponents. Of all the games that I played, I won only 1-2 unconditionally and without much thought. In the rest of the games, I had to sweat, in some places pure luck saved me. Still, playing online and offline are two different things.
As proof that the game is not played by beginners in anti. The position that filled up my puzzles book on anti:
Сборник задач различных уровней сложности. (lichess.org) (24)
A beautiful etude win, but Black make a mistake in the end. Still...
However, I estimated the task at 2000-2100...
But still a lot of experience and great luck did not allow me to lose or draw at least one game that evening. I didn't spare anyone and won everything.

The text of the MCC:

so, it turned out:
a - Fischer's antichess had already been invented before Ivan Vor
b - antichess super grandmaster Sanya Shtin, before coming to the "Lad'ya", literally played in the Fischer antichess world championship (!?!!), and took third place in the world
c - The most amazing thing is that not everyone lost to Sanya without a fight!

The inverted king!

A small conclusion

Antichess in Russia is not only online. They've been here for a long time, it's just that I'm a jerk who didn't know anything. ̄\_(ツ)_/ ̄
I'm glad that I still flew across half the city by metro to this bar that evening, talked and played. I also won a bottle of tarragon! Yummy. :P

P.S. Join the club Федерация Антишахмат России Open • lichess.org :)