2012 Russian Team Championship
The 2012 Russian Team Chess Championships are underway in the Black Sea resort of Sochi.
The competition format has changed from previous years - it's now a seven-round Swiss event running from 9-15 April. There are 18 teams chasing the title and many elite players taking part, including Fabiano Caruana, Sergey Karjakin, Alexander Morozevich, Peter Svidler and many other 2700+ Elo rated players (see below).
The team ShSM-64 from Moscow are the ratings favourites with Caruana, Wang Hao, Leko and Giri among their team. After 2 rounds the Thomsk-400 team are the leaders. Teams consist of 6 players and 2 reserves.
More information can be found at the official coverage here (in Russian). Preview by Vladislav Akselrod here.
A separate women's event is also taking place. The top players in the main event are:
|
|
Player |
Elo |
Rank |
Fed |
Team |
|
1 |
Fabiano Caruana |
2767 |
7 |
ITA |
SHSM-64 |
|
2 |
Sergey Karjakin |
2766 |
8 |
RUS |
Tomsk-400 |
|
3 |
Alexander Morozevich |
2765 |
9 |
RUS |
Economist-SGSU |
|
4 |
Peter Svidler |
2744 |
15 |
RUS |
SPB-Federation |
|
5 |
Evgeny Tomashevsky |
2736 |
17 |
RUS |
Economist-SGSU |
|
6 |
Wang Hao |
2733 |
19 |
CHN |
SHSM-64 |
|
7 |
Leinier Dominguez Perez |
2730 |
20 |
CUB |
SPB-Federation |
|
8 |
Dmitry Jakovenko |
2729 |
21 |
RUS |
Ugra |
|
9 |
Ruslan Ponomariov |
2727 |
23 |
UKR |
Tomsk-400 |
|
10 |
Peter Leko |
2720 |
24 |
HUN |
SHSM-64 |
|
11 |
Ian Nepomniatchi |
2718 |
26 |
RUS |
Economist-SGSU |
|
12 |
Anish Giri |
2717 |
27 |
NED |
SHSM-64 |
|
13 |
Alexander Riazantsev |
2710 |
28 |
RUS |
SHSM-64 |
|
14 |
Nikita Vitiugov |
2709 |
30 |
RUS |
SPB-Federation |
|
15 |
Alexander Moiseenko |
2706 |
33 |
UKR |
Economist-SGSU |
|
16 |
Boris Grachev |
2705 |
35 |
RUS |
SHSM-64 |
|
17 |
Vladimir Malakhov |
2705 |
36 |
RUS |
Ugra |
|
18 |
Pavel Eljanov |
2704 |
37 |
UKR |
Economist-SGSU |
|
19 |
Krishnan Sasikiran |
2703 |
38 |
IND |
Navigator |
|
20 |
Sergei Movsesian |
2702 |
41 |
ARM |
SPB-Federation |
|
21 |
Alexei Shirov |
2701 |
44 |
LAT |
Ugra |
|
22 |
Emil Sutovsky |
2700 |
46 |
ISR |
Navigator |
.
The time control is 90 minutes for 40 moves then 30 minutes to a finish, with a 30 second increment from the start. Games start at 15:00 local time (11:00 UTC).
Games via TWIC.
