Good start for Ural & Economist1
Karpov, Korchnoi, Svidler, Morozevich, Alekseev, Gelfand, Rublevsky, Bareev, Kamsky, Khalifman, Radjabov, Shirov, Grischuk, Mamedyarov, Ponomariov, Karjakin and many other players are together in Sochi, Russia. At the Russian Team Championship, two teams started with two victories: Ural from Ekaterinenburg and Economist1 from Saratov.The Russian Team Championship is held 1 - 14 April in the microdistrict Dagomys in the city of Sochi, Russia - where the second Grand Prix will take place as well, in August. It's the stongest team competition ever held in Russia. Twelve teams play a round-robin in a period of two weeks. Besides the title, the teams fight for three spots at the next Europa Cup. Each team is allowed to use a maximum of three foreigners.More than once I've described the Bundesliga as the strongest club competition in the world, I believe. But if I look at these teams, I'm not so sure anymore:Results so far:
Round 1: 2 April 2008 Round 2: 3 April 2008 SHSM - 64 3-3 SHSM - TPS 4-2 TPN-Saransk - South Ural 4-2 South Ural - FINEK 2?Ǭ?-3?Ǭ? FINEK - Shatar 2?Ǭ?-3?Ǭ? Shatar - Spacio 3-3 Spacio - Ural 2-4 Ural - Economist-2 4?Ǭ?-1?Ǭ? Economist-2 - Economist-1 2-4 Economist-1 - Tomsk-400 4-2 Tomsk-400 - Polytechnic 2?Ǭ?-3?Ǭ? 64 - Polytechnic 3-3Shirov and Motylev have won both their games; Kamsky drew both games with Black in his pet a6-Slav. Korchnoi lost in the first round against Sakaev; in the second he drew with Zvjaginsev. Karpov hasn't played yet. Here's a selection of interesting games from the first two rounds.
- Russian Chess Federation
- Live games
- ChessPro
- Games so far in PGN
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