The XIII Russian Club Championship and VII Russian Women’s Club Championship are being held from April 19th to May 1st, 2006, in the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi. Four top teams will qualify for the European Club Cup. Full details are available in our first report.
The main event, the XIII Russian Club Championship, was a round robin tournament with twelve teams. Each team had six main players and two reserves. Time controls were 100 min for 40 moves, then 50 min. for 20 moves, 10 min + 30 sec for the rest of the game.
The first criterion for the final rankings was the number of points on all boards; second was the result of the match between the tied teams; third the number of team victories; and finally the best results on boards 1, then 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. The first four teams qualify for the European Chess Club Cup 2006 (Tomsk-400 automatically qualifies). The prize fund was one million rubles (~US $40,000).
The winners were Ural Sverdlovsk, followed by TPS Saransk, Tomsk-400 and Termosteps Samara. Here is a table of the results of the individual players and the teams:
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Best results premier league:
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Best results women’ tournament
Arrival and departure of the participants: Sochi airport
Hotel Dagomys, where everything happened
The playing hall in Hotel Dagomys
TPS vs Ural, in the final decisive battle (with Volokitin, Ivanchuk, Grischuk)
Termosteps vs Ural (with Rublevsky, Malakhov, Dreev, Shirov, Grischuk)
Ural vs Tomsk-400 (Shirov, Dreev, Tkachiev, Bologan, Jakovenko, Morozevich)
Almira Skripchenko, playing for Ladya
Alexei Shirov, second board for Ural Sverdlovsk region
Vassily Ivanchuk, top board for TPS Saransk
WFM Varvara Kirillova (Russia, Finek-2)
WIM Anna Sharevich (Belarus, Economist-SGSU)
WGM Ekaterina Korbut (RUS, Finek-1, best on board three
and here on the top of the Hotel “Dagomys”)
WIM Marya Kursova (Russia, ABC)
Top seed Levon Arovian (2756, Tomsk-400)
giving interview to national Spot TV Channel
Sharing a secret before the game: WGM Natalija Pogonina and IM Elisabeth Paehtz
Visitors in the In the Internet café near the playing area
The victorious team "Ural" Sverdlovsk region
The Tomsk-400 team with Boris Shaidullin (captain, left)
ABC with FIDE vice president and team captain Andrey Selivanov
FINEK-1 and with team captain Bykov
Closing ceremony with four girls from Yuzhny Ural and Antoaneta Stefanova
(second from right) from ABC. Can you spot the mobile phone?
Iriva Vasilevich and Marya Fominyh singing Karaoke. Another mobile phone.
Information and pictures provided by Eldar Mukhametov
