We are striving to ensure that the sports level of the VEF Cup provides Far Eastern chess players with the opportunity to achieve the standards for receiving sports titles. For now, tournaments of this level in the Russian Far East are practically absent, and in order to receive, for example, the title of grandmaster, Far Eastern chess players need to participate in tournaments in the western part of the country.
When we conceived the VEF Cup, we proceeded from the need to create a system of complementary chess tournaments in the Russian Far East. That is why the winners of such Far Eastern tournaments as "City by the Sea", "Cup of the Head of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)", "Cup of the JSC "Gidrostroy", the Far Eastern Federal District Championship are invited to the VEF Cup, and the VEF Cup itself has the potential to become a qualifying round for more significant competitions.