As with last year's edition, the RSSU Cup, Moscow Open  2015 will include two unusual tournaments. The first of which is a chess biathlon (chess + shogi), the second pure shogi.

The biathlon will be held Jan 31 to Feb 1 and will mark the third inclusion of the event. Last year saw twelve participants, including representatives from Ukraine and Germany. The winner was Boris Mirnik (Germany).

The second tournament – the Japanese version of chess, shogi – is already a familiar sight in Moscow owing to its yearly inclusion in the Moscow Open since 2004. 

The tradition of including the student-grandmaster round-robin tournament as an event of the RSSU Cup will be upheld for the Moscow Open 2015. This year's edition is held in memoriam Aleksandr Pochinka, the talented organizer and head of the RSSU Board of Trustees, himself a great enthusiast of chess.

As before, the men's and women's sections will each be contested by 10 participants. The top-seeded player in the men's section is GM Daniil Dubov (2629) from Moscow. 

At this moment in the festival’s web-site in section RESERVE HOTEL\ Hotel http://open.moscowchess.org/en/hotel there are list of all participants and guests, who are invited to a reservation in hotels Tourist and Baikal, the booking will be completed - after payment registration fee for booking hotels.  Registration fee for booking hotels is a fee for one night in a room of your choice. Registration fee is not included in the payment for accommodation and spent on administrative costs.

Foreign participants and guests of the festival Moscow Open 2015 will pay registration fee for booking hotels during accreditation.

The 11th Edition of the RSSU Cup, Moscow Open – 2015 chess festival is to be held from Jan 29 - Feb 9, 2015. As before, it will consist of eight competitions: Men's Russian Cup stage, Women's Russian Cup stage, RSSU Cup Amateur section, RSSU Cup Veteran section, World Cup of Chess Composition, RSSU Cup Student-grandmaster section and RSSU Cup School Champion section.

Additional programs include: FIDE Seminar for Arbiters (Feb 1-4), FIDE seminar “Chess in Schools” (Feb 5), FIDE Seminar for Organizers (Feb 6-7), and Master Classes of Leading Coaches (Feb 5-7).

Ten days passed as one moment—chess battles and firm handshakes, finding old friends among chess festival participants and making new ones. This year Russian State Social University has done its best to organize the championship such that each participant felt cared for and attended to.

Taking part at the prize winners’ award ceremony held on the evening of Feb 9 in the RSSU assembly hall were FIDE President, Mr. Kirsan Ilyumzhinov; Chairman of FIDE Competition Organizing Committee, Mr. Theodoros Tsorbatsoglou; Vice-Chairman of the Moscow Department of Physical Education and Sport, Mr. Alexey Pyzhov; Rector-founder of  RSSU Mr. Vasily Zhukov; and President of Moscow Chess Federation Mr. Vladimir Palikhata.

Four grandmasters have shown the best results at the Moscow Open 2014, Men’s Premier Cup: Alexander Moiseenko (Ukraine), Maxim Matlakov (Russia), Mateusz Bartel and Michal Krasenkow (both from Poland) earned 7 of 9 possible points. The current European Champion Moiseenko and one of the strongest chess players of St. Petersburg Matlakov are favored by the tie- break rules. In fact, all three of the tie-breaking criteria are equal. As a result both grandmasters became the winners of the tournament.

Mateusz Bartel became the bronze medalist. Michal Krasenkow is at the fourth place. 16 participants finished with 6.5 points.