Big pictorial: Après Chess in Dagomys
4/16/2009 – For the third time we bring you a "final report" on the Russian Team Championship and Leagues in Dagomys-Sochi, southern Russian. It features pictures taken mainly after the end of the event – prize giving and medal distribution, the closing party. There are a number of faces you probably have not seen before. Here's a megabyte and a half of pictures by Irina Sudakova and Elena Mikheeva.
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Russian Team Championship and Leagues
The Russian Team Championship took place from 4th–10th April 2009. It consisted of three sections:
- The Premier League was won by Tomsk, which finished in clear first, two points ahead of the rest. Three teams finished equal second on match points: 9.0/14. The board points decided, and there ShSM-64 was half a point in front of Ural, which iteself was half a point better than Economist.
- The Higher League saw Polytechnik win by one match point, ahead of Economist-SGSEU-2 and Yugra.
- The Women's League was won by Spartak, which shared 11 match points with AVS but had one more board point. Economist-SGSEU-1 came third.
Final standings
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Women's League (seven rounds)
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Higher League (nine rounds)
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| Individual results from R1
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Individual results from R1
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Après Chess in Dagomys
Photo report by WGM Irina Sudakova and Elena Mikheeva
The winning Higher League Polytechnik team: GMs Dmitry Kryakvin, Pavel Maletin,
Dmitry Kokarev
GM Denis Khismatullin, Tomsk-400
The arbiters
GM Ian Nepomniachtchi, ShSM-64
Kalmyk GM Sanan Sjugirov, Perspektiva (Higher League)
GM Konstantin Sakaev, Premier League, SPbChFed
GMs Igor Khenkin and Konstantin Landa from Etude-Contact
Officials at the closing ceremony, with Andrey Selivanov speaking
Individual board medal winners
WGM Anastasia Bodnaruk, SPb Chess Fed
WFM Valentina Gunina, ShSM
GM Kateryna Lahno, Spartak
IM Viktorija Cmilyte, SPb Chess Fed
GM Roman Ovetchkin, Polytechnik (Higher League)
GM Konstantin Landa, Etude-Contact (Higher League)
Best performance overall (2896!): GM Fabiano Caruana, ShSM-64
Friends: Dmitry Jakovenko, Tomsk-400, Peter Svidler, SPbChFed
GM Boris Gelfand, ShSM-64
Women's League winners
Economist SGSEU-1 – third place in the Women's League
The team of AVS in second place
The winners: Spartak with Yuri Dokhoian, Tatiana Kosintseva, Elmira Mirzoeva,
Evgenija Ovod, Antoaneta Stefanova, Kateryna Lahno, Nadezhda Kosintseva
WGM Elmira Mirzoeva, captain of the Spartak team
Premier League winners
SPb Chess Fed in fifth place
Economist SGSEU-1 in fourth place
Ural in third place
ShSM-64 in second place
The winners: Tomsk-400
Higher League winners
Economist SGSEU-2 in second place
The winners of the Higher League: Polytechnik
Closing party
GM Artem Iljin, Polytechnik
Second highest performance: GM Zhao Xue, Economist-SGSEU-1
A colorful player: IM Irina Vasilevich, Economist-SGSEU-1
The closing party in progress
Harmony: players from different teams
WGM Natalia Zhukova, SPb Chess Fed
Your playful reporters Irina and Elena
Links
The games are bing being broadcast live on the official web site and a selection on the chess server Playchess.com. If you are not a member you can download the free PGN reader ChessBase Light, which gives you immediate access. You can also use the program to read, replay and analyse the PGN games. |
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