ShSM-64 wins Russian Team Championship in Dagomys

by ChessBase
4/10/2010 – Not the catchiest of headlines, that – but the Russian teams aren't known for their pretty names. The Championships were played in three groups, the Premier, Higher and Women's Leagues. Sergey Karjakin and Alexander Riazantsev were the top performers amongst the men (2889 and 2885), while Viktorija Cmilyte shone with a 2700 performance amongst the women. Illustrated report.

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Russian Team Championships

The Russian Team Championships took place from 1st–10th April 2010 in Dagomys/Sochi. There were three competitions: the Premier, Higher and Women's Championships. For the Premier and Higher Leagues the rate of play was 100 minutes for 40 moves, 50 minutes for twenty move and ten minutes + 30 seconds increment for all the remaining moves. In the Women's League the time controls were 90 minutes for 40 moves and 30 minutes + 30 seconds increment for the rest. There were nine rounds in the Premier League, seven in the Higher League and seven for the Women's (with three matches per round).

Final standings

Premier League (nine rounds)

1
ShSM-64
16.0
2
SPb Chess Fed
14.0
3
Economist-SGSEU - 1
12.0
4
Yugra
11.0
5
Ural
11.0
6
Tomsk-400
9.0
7
M.Chigorin Chess Club
8.0
8
Etude-Contact
6.0
9
Economist-SGSEU - 2
3.0
10
BelGU
0.0

Higher League (eight rounds)

1
SC MEPhI
13.0
2
Polytechnik
11.0
3
Narzan
9.0
4
Perspektiva
7.0
5
Amateurs
6.0
6
Center Corporation
6.0
7
DVGTU
3.0
8
Atom-EGU
1.0

Women's League (seven rounds)

1
SPb Chess Fed
9.0
2
Giprorechtrans
8.0
3
AVS
7.0
4
ShSM
6.0
5
Economist-SGSEU
6.0
6
Dvorets
3.0
7
M.Chigorin Chess Club
3.0

Individual results, standings,
tables are available here.

Individual results, standings,
tables are available here.

Individual results, standings,
tables are available here.


Top performer Alexander Riazantsev kibitzing, Alexander Motylev playing. The former drew two games and won the remaining five to produce a 2885 performance. Motylev scored 5.5/8 with a 2793 performance.


Zahar Efimenko with a 2797 performance for SPb Chess Fed


A 2772 performance by Sergei Movsesian, playing for SPb Chess Fed


Peter Svidler with a 2701 performance for SPb Chess Fed


Artyom Timofeev, with a 2659 performance for Tomsk-400


IM Viktorija Cmilyte, with a 2697 performance for SPb Chess Fed


GM Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant with a 2310 performance for SPb Chess Fed


The winners, ShSM-64 or the Russian Rockets (or something like that – we propose a name change) with team captain Sergey Smagin, Boris Savchenko, Alexander Riazantsev, Sergey Karjakin, captain Alexander Zlochevsky, Fabiano Caruana, Boris Gelfand, Wang Hao, Boris Grachev, Evgeny Najer.


Second place for SPb Chess Fed, with Zahar Efimenko, Konstantin Sakaev, Sergei
Movsesian,
Vadim Zvjaginsev, Nikita Vitiugov, Peter Svidler, Vassily Ivanchuk, Vladimir Bykov


Third: Economist-SGSEU-1 with Evgeny Alekseev, Evgeny Tomashevsky, Dmitry Andreikin, Alexander Moiseenko, Michael Roiz, captain Alexey Vetrov, Ni Hua, Wang Yue.


The victorious team "SPb Chess Fed", with IM Viktorija Cmilyte, GM Monika Socko, IM Ekaterina Atalik,
captain Vladimir Bykov, GM Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant, WGM Anastasia Bodnaruk and WGM Julia Demina.


In second place: Giprorechtrans with coach IM Vladimir Barskij, WIM Maria Fominykh,
IM Elena Zaiatz, IM Irina Vasilevich,
WGM Batkhuyag Munguntuul, WGM Natalia Zhukova.


In third place "AVS", with coach GM Vladimir Georgiev, WGM Anastasia Savina, IM Mariya Muzychuk,
WGM Tatiana Shadrina, WGM Natalija Pogonina, IM Anna Muzychuk, GM Antoaneta Stefanova.

All photos by Elena Mikheeva and Irina Sudakova

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