4/14/2013 – It was close, both in the open and the women's sections, with match point ties for first, and both winners taking gold by just 1.5 game points. Key was Alexander Grischuk's win on the black side of an instructive Spanish against Ian Nepomniatchi, while in the women's a topsy turvy win by Ekatrina Atalik against Alexandra Kosteniuk did not change the final result. Pictures and videos galore.
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Russian Team Championship 2013 in Loo, Sochi
The 20th Russian Team Championships took place from April 7th to 13th 2013
in Loo, which is part of the city of Sochi, one of the southernmost places
of Russia. The teams had 88 grandmasters, 26 of whom sported ratings of
2700 or higher, included GMs, like Sergey Karjakin, Fabiano Caruana, Shakhriyar
Mamedyarov, Alexander Grischuk, Alexander Morozevich, Vassily Ivanchuk,
Peter Svidler, Peter Leko, Gata Kamsky and Dimitri Jakovenko.
The open section was won by SPb Chess Fed (above), which represents the
Chess Federation of St. Petersburg and fielded GMs Peter Svidler, 2747,
Nikita Vitiugov, 2712, Leinier Dominguez Perez, 2723, Sergei Movsesian,
2695, Zahar Efimenko, 2697, Vadim Zvjaginsev, 2658, Ildar Khairullin, 2660
and Maxim Matlakov, 2653. The average rating was 2706. The second placed
club Malakhit Chess Club had a rating average of 2738 and was the top seed
in the event.
The tournament came down to the wire as SPb Chess Fed led the tournament
by one match point going into the final round. However, with every team
fielding a near 2700 rating average, any result was possible. PGMB Rostov
held their own in boards one through five drawing every game while their
sixth and last board, Ivan Popov, dealt an important blow to SPb Chess by
defeating Matlakov and giving the match to Rostov. Top seed Malakhit needed
to win their last round match against SHSM "Nashe Nasledie" Moskow
to come out with first place.
Things started off well as Malakhit's Alexander Grischuk defeated Ian Nepomniatchi
in the black side of an instructive early d3 Spanish.
Alexander Grischuk before the final fateful
game
However the young talent from the Moskow team, Danil Dubov, absolutely
annihilated veteran Viktor Bologan, securing the 3-3 draw that allowed Malakhit
to catch SPb, but unfortunately for them still relegated them to second
place because of the game point tiebreak.
There are literally hundreds of videos to watch
on Eugene Potemkin's Youtube channel
Tie Break 1: Matchpoints (2 for wins, 1 for Draws, 0 for Losses) Tie Break
2: points (game-points). All individual and team results ranking crosstable
can be found here.
Women's section
The round robin tournament was finally won by Yugra (or Ugra) from Khanty-Mansiysk,
which edged out SHSM "Nashe Nasledie" from Moscow by just 1.5 game points.
It could have been even closer, as we describe below.
An important game in this event was in the last round, between IM Ekaterina
Atalik (above) and GM Alexandra Kosteniuk. It did not change the final result
– both Yugra and SHSM "Nashe Nasledie" Moskow were on the road to
4-0 victories (over Economist Saratov and Ladya Kazan). A win by Kosteniuk
would not have decisively changed the final standings. But the game is so
nerve-racking that it made the rounds on the Internet.
[Event "14th TCh-RUS w 2013"] [Site "Loo RUS"] [Date "2013.04.13"] [Round
"5"] [White "Atalik, Ekaterina"] [Black "Kosteniuk, Alexandra"] [Result
"1-0"] [ECO "E47"] [WhiteElo "2455"] [BlackElo "2496"] [PlyCount "115"]
[EventDate "2013.04.07"] [WhiteTeam "Ladya Kazan"] [BlackTeam "SHSM Nashe
Nasledie Moskow"] 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e3 O-O 5. Bd3 c5 6.
Nge2 d5 7. cxd5 cxd4 8. exd4 Nxd5 9. O-O Nc6 10. Nxd5 Qxd5 11. a3 Be7
12. Be3 Bf6 13. Qc2 g6 14. Rfd1 Qd8 15. Be4 {White has obtained as much
as one can ask from an Isolated Queen Pawn (IQP) position. Her position
is active, she is ready to push d5, she is better developed and she hasn't
had to give up the pair of bishops or any other important strategical
concession.} Bd7 16. d5 exd5 17. Bxd5 $6 (17. Rxd5 {Was both more obvious
and stronger, as the black queen has no comfortable place to hide.} Qe7
$2 18. Bc5 $18) 17... Qc8 18. Rac1 Ne7 19. Qb1 Bc6 20. Bxc6 Nxc6 21. Nf4
Be5 22. b4 Bxf4 23. Bxf4 Qg4 24. Be3 Rfd8 {Clearly White has allowed Black
somewhat back into the game, but the presence of a bishop against a knight
in an open board guarantees that she will have long lasting pressure with
correct play.} 25. h3 Qh4 26. b5 Nd4 27. Rc7 Nf5 28. Rxd8+ (28. Rxb7 Nxe3
29. fxe3 {is simply an extra pawn for White.}) 28... Qxd8 29. Bf4 Qd5
30. Kh2 Re8 31. Qc2 $4 {Very careless.} Nh4 32. f3 Nxf3+ $1 {An obvious
yet very strong sacrifice. White cannot retake, so she is down a pawn
and her king will be exposed.} 33. Kg3 Nd4 34. Qc4 Ne2+ 35. Kh2 Qf5 36.
Bd6 Qf6 $4 ( 36... Qf1 37. Bc5 b6 {And the bishop has no retreat along
the g1-b6 diagonal, therefore the game is over.}) 37. Qc5 b6 38. Rc8 Qe6
39. Rxe8+ Qxe8 40. Qe5 Qd7 $4 {Black avoids the exchange of queens, but
this costs her the game.} 41. Be7 $1 {The dual threat of Qb8+ and Qxe2
is impossible to parry, and Atalik doesn't let Kosteniuk recover this
time.} f6 42. Qxe2 Qc7+ 43. g3 Kf7 44. Bb4 h5 45. Kg2 Qd7 46. Qe4 Qd8
47. Qc4+ Kg7 48. Qe6 Qd4 49. h4 Qb2+ 50. Kf3 g5 51. Qe7+ Kg6 52. Qe8+
Kh7 53. Qf7+ Kh8 54. hxg5 fxg5 55. Qxh5+ Kg7 56. Qxg5+ Kf7 57. Qf5+ Kg7
58. Qd3 {A topsy turvy game, but the victor is always the one to make
the next to last mistake.} 1-0
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