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The Russian Team Championship is taking place from 4th–10th April 2009. The Higher League, one level below, and Women's League take place from 2nd–10th April 2009.
In round five Tomsk lost an important match against ShSM-64, with Inarkiev and Tiviakov losing to Najer and Caruana. This put ShSM-64 into the lead with eight out of a possible ten match points. SPbChFed won its match (against TPS) to join Economist-SGSEU-1, which drew against Ural. The best scorer and highest performers so far are Fabiano Caruana with 4.0/5 and a 2843 performance, Alexei Shirov with 3.5/4 and a 2833 performance, Vladimir Belov and Andrei Volokitin with the same score and 2831 and 2805 performances respectively.
In the women's section Spartak beat SPb Chess Fed to reach 11.0/12 and AVS beat M.Chigorin CC to get 10.0/12 , with Economist-SGSEU-1, who beat ShSM, to stay a point behind at 9.0/12.
Premier League (five rounds)
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Higher League (seven rounds)
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Women's League (six rounds)
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On the penultimate day Economist-SGSEU-1 drew ShSM-64, while Tomsk-400 beat SPbChFed, which meant that Tomsk caught up with ShSM-64 (please don't blame us for these not exactly catchy names). Ural crushed Chigorin and joined Economist-SGSEU-1 in 3/4 position, two match points behind the leaders. On the final day, Friday, ShSM-64 plays SPbChFed, while Tomsk plays Eurasia-Logistic.
GM Fabiano Caruana, of Italy, rated 2649, beat Sergey Tiviakov in round
five and Ni Hua in round six, with a total of 5.0/6 points on boards
two, three and four for ShSM-64, and a rating performance of 2896. Fabiano is
sixteen.
Premier League (six rounds)
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Higher League (eight rounds)
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Women's League (seven rounds)
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Individual results from R1
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The Women's section is over after seven rounds (the other two groups have one more round each). Spartak, which had been coasting (they won the first four matches, drew the fifth and won the sixth), suffered a big setback by losing in the final round to ShSM (Stefanova and Lahno lost their games, Tatiana Kosintseva won her's), while AVS drew against Economist-SGSEU-1. That left Spartak and AVS tied for first, but Spartak had more board points and therefore took first place:
Rank | Team | Match | Bboard |
1 | Spartak | 11.0 | 18.0 |
2 | AVS | 11.0 | 17.0 |
3 | Economist-SGSEU-1 | 10.0 | 18.5 |
4 | SPb Chess Fed | 9.0 | 16.0 |
5 | AFGANVET-PetroDom | 6.0 | 14.0 |
6 | ShSM | 5.0 | 11.5 |
7 | Economist-SGSEU-2 | 4.0 | 11.5 |
8 | M.Chigorin CC | 0.0 | 5.5 |
Board one of the winning Spartak team: GM Antoaneta Stefanova, BUL,
2549, who scored a disappointing 2.5/6, with a rating performance of 2382
Board two of Spartak: IM Tatiana Kosintseva, who scored a win on
board one and 5.0/6 on board two with an incredible performance of 2750
Board three: IM Nadezhda Kosintseva, RUS, 2491, sister of Tatiana
Board four: GM Kateryna Lahno, UKR, 2478. She scored 1.5/2
on board three and 3.5/5 on board four with a 2498 performance
IM Muzychuk, Anna SLO 2533, socored 5.0/6 on board two of
Economist-SGSEU-1, with the second best performance of 2706
GM Zhao Xue, China, 2531, scored 5.5/7 on board one for
Economist-SGSEU-1, with the third best performance of 2655
WGM Baira Kovanova, RUS, 2398, scored 4.5/6 for Economist-
SGSEU-1 on board three for the fourth best performance of 2607
IM Elisabeth Paehtz, GER, 2459, Economist-SGSEU-2, performance 2495
IM Anna Ushenina, UKR, 2478, Economist-SGSEU-1, performance 2467
WGM Natalia Zdebskaja, UKR, 2438, AFGANVET-PetroDom, performance 2389
WGM Tatiana Grabuzova, RUS, 2348, AFGANVET-PetroDom, performance 2344
IM Irina Vasilevich, RUS, 2350, Economist-SGSEU-1, performance 2346
IM Elena Zaiatz, RUS, 2362, AFGANVET-PetroDom, performance 2417
IM Svetlana Matveeva, RUS, 2410, playing for ShSM, performance 2228
The team of M.Chigorin CC, with WIM Olga Ivkina, WFM Elizaveta Bronnikova
and
WIM Valentina Solovjova, did not win or draw a single match and scored just
5.5 board points
The Black Sea at Sochi-Dagomys
Spring is in full bloom in this southern-most part of Russia
Some very special flowers greet the new season
Dagomys Hotel, where the Team Championships are taking place
Once again we have video reports, produced by GM Robert Fontaine for the French
magazine Europe Echecs
Links
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