Russian Team Championship is going on in Dagomys. Those teams which have chess players with a rating exceeding 2700 points according to FIDE rating, rank from the first to the third places. The leader of the tournament “Ural” from Ekaterinburg has strengthened its hand with a narrow win over Saratov’s “Economist-SGSEU-1”. Azerbaijani player Teimour Radjabov (Azerbaijan, 2751), who plays for the Ural team, has secured a victory on the first board over Evgeny Alekseev (Russia, 2711). But the real uncompromising struggle has been enveloping in the middle of the standings of the tournament. In the principal game between “FINEK-GazPromBank” and “64” the first team was lucky to celebrate its victory. At the first board two irreconcilable opponents — Peter Svidler (Russia, 2746, 9th position in FIDE rating) and Boris Gelfand (Israel, 2723, 16th position in FIDE rating), the members of the elite of today’s chess—has engaged their swords. The Svidler‘s landslide victory has actually predetermined the outcome of the whole round. The leader’s initiative was taken up by his fellow team members and, by and large, they have coped with the task successfully.
The devastating win of “FINEK-GazPromBank” team with a difference of three points has drastically changed the teams’ standings. Formerly lagging by one point “FINEK-GazPromBank” team now has an advantage over “64” team by two points. The fifth round has showed itself as the most battlelike in the tournament. All the games of this round have yielded results. “Ural” (Ekaterinburg) — “Economist-SGSEU-1” (Saratov) — 3,5:2,5 “Shatar-Metropol” (Buryatia) — “Polytechnik” (Nizhny Tagil) — 3,5:2,5 “FINEK-GazPromBank” (St. Petersburg) — “64“ (Moscow) — 4,5:1,5 “Spasio-Swiss” (Moscow) — “TPS“ (Saransk) — 2,5:3,5 “ShSM” (Moscow) — “Economist-SGSEU-2” (Saratov) — 4:2 “Tomsk-400” (Tomsk) — “Southern Ural” (Chelyabinsk) — 4:2 Standings after 5 rounds: 1. “Ural” — 10 team points 2. “Shatar-Metropol” — 8 3. “FINEK-GazPromBank” — 7 4-6. “TPS“, “ShSM”, “Economist-SGSEU-1” — 6 7. “64“ — 5 8. “Spasio-Swiss” — 4 9-10. “Polytechnik”, “Economist-SGSEU-2” — 3 11. “Tomsk-400” — 2 12. “Southern Ural” — 0 Related links: Previous news: |
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