The name of a young Omsk chess player Vladislav Artemiev has started to appear more often in the chess and sports media over the last few years. Being a Champion of Russia in junior competitions, triumphant of the Young World Stars tournament, two-time prize winner of the World Junior Olympiads as a member of the Russian National Team, Vladislav os showing astonishing results in adult tournaments. At the moment the 15-year old player from Omsk has the best results in the Moscow Open 2014, Student Grandmaster Cup. This makes 6.5 of possible 7 points.

- Vladislav, we congratulate you for yet another victory. I get the impression this tournament is very easy for you.
- Thank you. Still this impression is wrong. Though I have to admit the things are good at the moment. I hope this will continue. I have to win as the opponents don’t want to remain behind.

- Today you’ve finished the game against Ulvi Bajarani quite quickly.
- We played the French Defense. I used to use this opening line in my repertoire. I got the better position, and though the game should have lasted long, but my opponent made several positional mistakes and the game was over. 

- What game has been the toughest for you so far?
- The game with Maksim Vavulin in the second round. I was playing with black. We were playing for around 5 hours, we made 60 moves. We were fighting on equal ground for quite a long time. I was saved by my opponent getting in time trouble, played inaccurately. I managed to take the initiative and finally win the game.

- Last year you won a lot of prizes in the junior individual and team competitions. Aside from the junior ones, what tournaments do you play in?
- In fact I’m playing quite seldom in junior championships now. Usually I participate in open tournaments. For instance, the Baku Open, the New York Open tournament, Russian Championship… 

- And the Moscow Open…
- Yes, last year I played in the main A tournament. My performance was far from being ideal, I gained 50%. This year I’ve decided to try the round-robin Student Grandmaster tournament.

- Were you afraid to be the youngest participant of the tournament?
- No, not at all. I’m used to it.

- Traditionally chess players develop professionally either in Moscow or in St. Petersburg. How did you manage to achieve a grandmaster level in Omsk?
- First of all, thanks to my dad. When I was six and a half he was training me to play chess. Dad is a great chess lover, candidate master of sport, though he has never played chess professionally. He took me to the chess school, I climbed through the categories. After that I started having an IM to train me. We have quite a few IMs in Omsk. One of them Ivan Smykovskiy is still helping me. We are talking before and after the rounds, he is giving me advice.

- Are you planning to move to Moscow?
- So far I’m ok in Omsk. Maybe when the time to enter university comes I will think about it, but I haven't considered it yet. Of course I'd like going St. Pete or Moscow.

- What profession would you like to choose?
- I'd like chess to be the main part of my life. And honestly I haven’t thought of that yet. I still have three years left of school ahead.