Russian Team Championships 2011
The Russian Team Chess Championships took place from 12-23 April in Olginka.
Twelve teams competed in an extremely strong round-robin event featuring players from all around the world, including top rated Vassily Ivanchuk (pictured).
There was also a separate women's team event with eight teams competing.
The SHSM-64 team (from Moscow) won the main event, with a team that included young hired guns Fabiano Caruana and Anish Giri. Caruana had a tremendous score of 8/10 during the tough competition!
The women's competition was a very tight race, won by the HSM-RSCU team headed by Alexandra Kosteniuk.
Giri (standing) and Caruana (seated, foreground) helped Moscow "64" win
The final team scores:
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | TB1 | TB2 | |
| 1 | Shsm-64 | * | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3½ | 5 | 4½ | 4½ | 4 | 5 | 5½ | 5 | 20 | 47.0 |
| 2 | Tomsk-400 | 3 | * | 3 | 3½ | 3½ | 4½ | 4½ | 4 | 4½ | 4½ | 5½ | 6 | 20 | 46.5 |
| 3 | SPb Chess Fed | 3 | 3 | * | 2½ | 3 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4½ | 5 | 5 | 6 | 17 | 46.0 |
| 4 | Yugra | 2 | 2½ | 3½ | * | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5½ | 5 | 4½ | 3½ | 5 | 17 | 42.5 |
| 5 | Economist-SGSEU | 2½ | 2½ | 3 | 3 | * | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4½ | 4½ | 5 | 5½ | 15 | 42.5 |
| 6 | M. Chigorin Club | 1 | 1½ | 2 | 2 | 2 | * | 3 | 4 | 3½ | 4 | 5 | 3½ | 11 | 31.5 |
| 7 | Politekhnik | 1½ | 1½ | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | * | 2½ | 3½ | 3½ | 3½ | 3½ | 10 | 28.5 |
| 8 | EGU-Perspektiva | 1½ | 2 | 1 | ½ | 1 | 2 | 3½ | * | 2½ | 4 | 5½ | 3½ | 8 | 27.0 |
| 9 | BelGu | 2 | 1½ | 1½ | 1 | 1½ | 2½ | 2½ | 3½ | * | 2½ | 3½ | 5 | 6 | 27.0 |
| 10 | Atom Desnogorsk | 1 | 1½ | 1 | 1½ | 1½ | 2 | 2½ | 2 | 3½ | * | 3 | 3½ | 5 | 23.0 |
| 11 | Yamal | ½ | ½ | 1 | 2½ | 1 | 1 | 2½ | ½ | 2½ | 3 | * | 4½ | 3 | 19.5 |
| 12 | Kemerovo | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ½ | 2½ | 2½ | 2½ | 1 | 2½ | 1½ | * | 0 | 15.0 |
The individual scores of the winning SHSM-64 team:
| Name | Elo | FED |
Score | |
| 1 | Gelfand Boris | 2733 | ISR | 2.0/4.0 |
| 2 | Wang Hao | 2728 | CHN | 4.5/6.0 |
| 3 | Caruana Fabiano | 2716 | ITA | 8.0/10.0 |
| 4 | Giri Anish | 2690 | NED | 5.5/9.0 |
| 5 | Riazantsev Alexander | 2679 | RUS | 7.0/11.0 |
| 6 | Potkin Vladimir | 2653 | RUS | 5.5/8.0 |
| 7 | Grachev Boris | 2675 | RUS | 6.0/8.0 |
| 8 | Najer Evgeniy | 2638 | RUS | 8.5/10.0 |
The top 20 players by rating:
| Name | Elo | FED | Team | |
| 1 | Ivanchuk Vassily | 2779 | UKR | SPb Chess Fed |
| 2 | Ponomariov Ruslan | 2743 | UKR | Tomsk-400 |
| 3 | Gelfand Boris | 2733 | ISR | Shsm-64 |
| 4 | Svidler Peter | 2730 | RUS | SPb Chess Fed |
| 5 | Nepomniachtchi Ian | 2729 | RUS | Economist-SGSEU |
| 6 | Wang Hao | 2728 | CHN | Shsm-64 |
| 7 | Eljanov Pavel | 2724 | UKR | Economist-SGSEU |
| 8 | Vitiugov Nikita | 2720 | RUS | SPb Chess Fed |
| 9 | Jakovenko Dmitry | 2718 | RUS | Yugra |
| 10 | Caruana Fabiano | 2716 | ITA | Shsm-64 |
| 11 | Movsesian Sergei | 2716 | ARM | SPb Chess Fed |
| 12 | Malakhov Vladimir | 2714 | RUS | Yugra |
| 13 | Efimenko Zahar | 2708 | UKR | SPb Chess Fed |
| 14 | Tomashevsky Evgeny | 2707 | RUS | Economist-SGSEU |
| 15 | Dreev Aleksey | 2697 | RUS | Yugra |
| 16 | Giri Anish | 2690 | NED | Shsm-64 |
| 17 | Alekseev Evgeny | 2688 | RUS | Economist-SGSEU |
| 18 | Areshchenko Alexander | 2687 | UKR | Tomsk-400 |
| 19 | Andreikin Dmitry | 2686 | RUS | Economist-SGSEU |
| 20 | Zhigalko Sergei | 2680 | BLR | Yugra |
The women's team results:
| Team | W | L | D | TB1 | TB2 | |
| 1 | HSM - RSCU | 5 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 18.0 |
| 2 | Geprorechtrans | 5 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 18.0 |
| 3 | AVS | 5 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 16.0 |
| 4 | Rook | 4 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 15.5 |
| 5 | Polytechnique | 3 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 12.0 |
| 6 | CHF - St. Petersburg | 2 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 13.5 |
| 7 | Club Chigorin | 1 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 10.0 |
| 8 | Ugra | 1 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 9.0 |
Photo of Giri and Caruana by Maria Bolshakova for the official website.
