Ural Ekaterinenburg the strongest

Leading throughout the tournament, and clearly the best team: Ural Ekaterinenburg has won the Russian Team Championship.

Photo: ChessPro

In Sochi, Russia, Ural Ekaterinenburg (with Radjabov, Shirov, Kamsky, Grischuk, Malakhov and Akopian, plus Dreev and Motylev as reserves) took over Tomsk-400's title. It was decided already on Saturday, when in their match against TPN, after about fifteen moves all clocks were stopped.

Karpov and Korchnoi couldn't prevent relegation with their team Southern-Ural but relatively worse was Tomsk-400's tournament: they won the European Club Cup in 2005 and in 2006 and ended third there last year but their shared 9th place in Sochi is just ridiculous. At Chessbase a piece of text from ChessPro (by Ilya Odessky) is translated, which says that after the rest day them got a fine for "breaching sporting discipline", which is said to be "the usual formula in Soviet times for drinking"...

A few fragments from the last round:

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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     3-3

Round 3: 4 April 2008                   Round 4: 5 April 2008
FINEK         - SHSM           3?Ǭ?-2?Ǭ?    Ural          - Polytechnic     4-2
?ꬢ?ê???ꬰ           - 64              3-3     64            - Economist-1    3?Ǭ?-2?Ǭ?
Spacio        - South Ural     3?Ǭ?-2?Ǭ?    TPN           - FINEK           3-3
Economist-2   - Shatar          3-3     Shatar        - Tomsk-400      3?Ǭ?-2?Ǭ?
Tomsk-400     - Ural            2-4     SHSM          - Spacio          3-3
Polytechnic   - Economist-1    2?Ǭ?-3?Ǭ?    South Ural    - Economist-2    2?Ǭ?-3?Ǭ?

Round 5: 6 April 2008                   Round 6: 7 April 2008
Economist-1   - Ural           2?Ǭ?-3?Ǭ?    64            - Ural           3?Ǭ?-2?Ǭ?
Polytechnic   - Shatar         2?Ǭ?-3?Ǭ?    Shatar        - Economist-1    2?Ǭ?-3?Ǭ?
FINEK         - 64             4?Ǭ?-1?Ǭ?    FINEK         - Spacio          3-3
Spacio        - TPS            2?Ǭ?-3?Ǭ?    SHSM          - Tomsk-400      2?Ǭ?-3?Ǭ?
Economist-2   - SHSM            2-4     TPN           - Economist-2     4-2
Tomsk-400     - South Ural      4-2     South Ural    - Polytechnic     4-2

Round 7: 9 April 2008                   Round 8: 10 April 2008
Ural          - Shatar          3-3     South Ural    - Ural            2-4
Economist-2   - FINEK           2-4     SHSM          - Economist-1    2?Ǭ?-3?Ǭ?
Tomsk-400     - TPS            0?Ǭ?-5?Ǭ?    FINEK         - Tomsk-400       2-4
Economist-1   - South Ural     4?Ǭ?-1?Ǭ?    TPN           - Polytechnic    2?Ǭ?-3?Ǭ?
Spacio        - 64              4-2     64            - Shatar          3-3
Polytechnic   - SHSM            2-4     Spacio        - Economist-2     4-2
	
Round 9: 11 April 2008                  Round 10: 12 April 2008
Ural          - SHSM            4-2     TPN           - Ural            3-3
Economist-1   - TPS             3-3     FINEK         - Economist-1    3?Ǭ?-2?Ǭ?
Polytechnic   - FINEK           3-3     Spacio        - Polytechnic     3-3
Shatar        - South Ural     2?Ǭ?-3?Ǭ?    64            - South Ural      3-3
Tomsk-400     - Spacio          2-4     SHSM          - Shatar          2-4
Economist-2   - 64             1?Ǭ?-4?Ǭ?    Economist-2   - Tomsk-400       2-4

Round 11: 13 April 2008
Ural          - FINEK           3-3
Economist-1   - Spacio         3?Ǭ?-2?Ǭ?
Shatar        - TPS            2?Ǭ?-3?Ǭ?
Tomsk-400     - 64              4-2 
South Ural    - SHSM            2-4
Polytechnic   - Economist-2     4-2

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