Spanish Team Championships 2011
The Spanish Team Chess Championships ran from 21-26 November in Melilla, Spain and team Gros Xake Taldea (GXT) from San Sebastián took the title in the Division Honor.
The competition was a 7-team round robin event, with six players on each team, and GXT won despite suffering their first and only loss in the last round to Naturgas Energia Sestao by a score of 3½-2½.
The international team competing for GXT included such luminaries as Ruslan Ponomariov, Alexei Shirov, Etienne Bacrot, Loek Van Wely and Rustam Kasimdzhanov.
The final standings:
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | MP | BP | |
| 1 | Gros Xake Taldea | * | 2½ | 5½ | 3½ | 4 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 24.5 |
| 2 | Naturgas Energia Sestao CA | 3½ | * | 3 | 4½ | 4½ | 4½ | 3 | 10 | 23.0 |
| 3 | College-EIKM Marcote | ½ | 3 | * | 4 | 3½ | 4 | 4 | 9 | 19.0 |
| 4 | CA Reverte Albox | 2½ | 1½ | 2 | * | 2 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 17.0 |
| 5 | CA Linex-Magic | 2 | 1½ | 2½ | 4 | * | 1 | 4½ | 4 | 15.5 |
| 6 | CA Solvay | 1 | 1½ | 2 | 1 | 5 | * | 4½ | 4 | 15.0 |
| 7 | Cajacanarias | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1½ | 1½ | * | 1 | 12.0 |
Champions! Gros Xake Taldea take the Spanish Team Championship.
Photo: Federación Española de Ajedrez.
