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Russian Team Championship 2008 has taken off in Dagomys (Krasnodar Region) on April 1st, 2008. There are 12 teams from 9 cities: Moscow (“ShSM”, “64”, “Spasio-Swiss”), Chelyabinsk (“Southern Ural”), Ekaterinburg (“Ural”), Nizhny Tagil (“Polytechnik”), Saratov (“Economist-SGSEU-1”, “Economist-SGSEU-2”), Tomsk (“Tomsk-400”), St. Petersburg (“FINEK-GazPromBank”), Ulan-Ude (“Shatar-Metropol”) and Saransk (“TPS-Saransk”). The teams are playing round-robin games on 6 boards. Each team consists of 8 players (6 primary ones, 2 alternates), except “Tomsk-400”, which totals 7 players. The championship will continue up to April 14th. Game days are: starting April 2nd till 7th and starting April 9th till 14th, April 8th is the day-off. The round starts at 11.00, Greenwich time. The favorites of the Championship are: “Ural”, Ekaterinburg — Radjabov, Teimour (Azerbaijan, 2751), Shirov, Alexei (Spain, 2755), Kamsky, Gata (USA, 2743), Grischuk, Alexander (Russia, 2711), Malakhov, Vladimir (Russia, 2689), Akopian, Vladimir (Armenia, 2700), Dreev, Alexey (Russia, 2633), Motylev, Alexander (Russia, 2644). “Economist-SGSEU-1”, Saratov — Alekseev, Evgeny (Russia, 2711), Tomashevsky, Evgeny (Russia, 2646), Eljanov, Pavel (Ukraine, 2692), Ni, Hua (China, 2703), Roiz, Michael (Israel, 2659), Moiseenko, Alexander (Ukraine, 2650), Galkin, Alexander (Russia, 2606), Khairullin, Ildar (Russia, 2554). “Tomsk-400”, Tomsk — Morozevich, Alexander (Russia, 2774), Karjakin, Sergey (Ukraine, 2732), Jakovenko, Dmitry (Russia, 2711), Van Wely, Loek (Netherlands, 2676), Timofeev, Artyom (Russia, 2664), Kharlov, Andrei (Russia, 2449), Belozerov, Andrei (Russia, 2551). Related links: |
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