After the end of the 10th Russian Team Championship, which took place in Dagomys, the ahead-of-schedule winner of the championship has been revealed. It is “Ural” from Ekaterinburg, which headed the tournament’s race almost the whole encounter. A draw with “TPS-Saransk” from Saransk was enough for the ahead-of-schedule victory. One of the pursuers of the leader, “Economist-SGSEU-1” team from Saratov, has lost the game to “FINEK-GazPromBank” from St. Petersburg. Evgeny Alekseev (“Economist-SGSEU-1” – Russia, 2711) playing black on the 1st board has defeated Peter Svidler (“FINEK-GazPromBank” – Russia, 2746). A young grandmaster David Navara (“FINEK-GazPromBank” — Chech Republic, 2672) on the 4th board has won over Ni Hua (“Economist-SGSEU-1” — China, 2703) playing black too. On the 5th board Nikita Vitiugov (“FINEK-GazPromBank” — Russia, 2617), playing whites, has defeated Michael Roiz (“Economist-SGSEU-1” — Israel, 2659). With equal healthy scores “Tomsk-400” from Tomsk and “Shatar-Metropol” from Ulan-Ude have defeated their competitors. “Tomsk-400” has won over “Economist-SGSEU-2” team from Saratov. In this match scored Sergey Karjakin (”Tomsk-400” — Ukraine, 2732), Dmitry Jakovenko (“Tomsk-400” — Russia, 2711), Loek Van Wely (“Tomsk-400” – Netherlands, 2676) and Alexander Kovchan (“Economist-SGSEU-2” — Ukraine, 2513) who have defeated Alexei Iljushin (“Economist-SGSEU-2” — Russia, 2552), Alexei Kornev (“Economist-SGSEU-2” — Russia, 2544), Sergej Dyachkov (“Economist-SGSEU-2” — Russia, 2566) and Artyom Timofeev (“Tomsk-400” – Russia, 2664) respectively. Standings of the 10th round: “64” (Moscow) – “Southern Ural” (Chelyabinsk) – 3:3 “ShSM” (Moscow) – “Shatar-Metropol” (Ulan-Ude) – 2:4 “TPS-Saransk” (Saransk) – “Ural” (Ekaterinburg) – 3:3 “FINEK-GazPromBank” (St. Petersburg) – “Economist-SGSEU-1” (Saratov) – 3.5:2.5 “Spasio Swiss” (Moscow) – “Polytechnik” (Nizhny Tagil) – 3:3 “Economist-SGSEU-2” (Saratov) – “Tomsk-400” (Tomsk) – 2:4 Before the 10th round the standings look like this: 1st place – “Ural”, 16 team points; 2-4th places – “Economist-SGSEU-1”, “FINEK-GazPromBank”, “Spasio Swiss”, 13 team points; 5-6th places – “TPS-Saransk”, “Shatar-Metropol”, 12 team points; 7th place – “64”, 11 team points; 8-9th places – “Tomsk-400”, “ShSM”, 8 team points; 10th place – “Polytechnik”, 7 team points; 11th place – “Southern Ural”, 5 team points; 12th place – “Economist-SGSEU-2”, 3 team points. Related links: Previous news: |