Moscow 64 leads Team Cup after 5 rounds

9 April 2009, 16.35 CET | By Peter Doggers  | Filed under: Reports | Tags: League

With just two rounds to go (the penultimate being played at this very moment) Moscow 64 is leading the Russian Team Cup as the only team having won all matches. A report with new game fragments from yesterday and the day before.

The Russian Team Cup takes place in Dagomys April 4-10, 2009. This year only 7 rounds are played in the Premier League, after the economic situation caused a couple of teams to withdraw. The Women’s League is also 8 teams; the league below the Premier, interestingly called Higher League, consists of 10 teams, and started two days earlier.

The total number of 61 players in the Premier League make an average rating of 2639. There’s a round every day, without a rest day. The rate of play is 100 minutes for the first 40 moves, then 50 minutes for the next 20 moves and then 10 minutes to end the game with 30 seconds increment for each move.

Round 4

In the 4th round Economist-1 lost 2¬?-3¬? to Tomsk; five games were drawn and so game Alekseev-Jakovenko turned out to be decisive:

Moscow 64 drew a hard-fought battle with TPS 3-3. On board one Gelfand won a nice, technical knight ending against Ivanchuk:

Round 5

In the fifth round Ural, the only team with four players rated higher than 2700 (Grischuk, Shirov, Malakhov and Rublevsky) drew for the fifth (!) time, against Economist 1. Moscow 64 defeated Tomsk 2-4 and thus grabbed the lead. In this match Caruana managed to beat the solid Tiviakov:

16th Russian Club Cup, Premier League | Round 5 Standings

SNo.	Team	Local	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Match Points	Total	Place
1	SPbChFed	2684	X	3.0	3.0	5.0	3.5			2.5	6.0	17.0	3
2	Eurasia-Logistic	2566	3.0	X	3.0	4.0			2.0	2.5	4.0	14.5	7
3	Ural	2701	3.0	3.0	X			3.0	3.0	3.0	5.0	15.0	5
4	M.Chigorin CC	2459	1.0	2.0		X	1.5	1.5	1.0		0.0	7.0	8
5	TPS	2645	2.5			4.5	X	2.5	3.0	3.0	4.0	15.5	6
6	Tomsk-400	2685			3.0	4.5	3.5	X	2.0	3.5	7.0	16.5	2
7	ShSM-64	2672		4.0	3.0	5.0	3.0	4.0	X		8.0	19.0	1
8	Economist-SGSEU - 1	2699	3.5	3.5	3.0		3.0	2.5		X	6.0	15.5	4

16th Russian Club Cup, Premier League | Teams and players

Brd	T	Tm/Pl	Fed	Rtg	Born		Brd	T	Tm/Pl	Fed	Rtg	Born
		SPbChFed		2684					TPS		2645
1*	GM	Svidler, Peter	RUS	2726	1976		1*	GM	Ivanchuk, Vassily	UKR	2746	1969
2*	GM	Movsesian, Sergei	SVK	2747	1978		2*	GM	Volokitin, Andrei	UKR	2671	1986
3*	GM	Vitiugov, Nikita	RUS	2688	1987		3*	GM	Kurnosov, Igor	RUS	2658	1985
4*	GM	Zvjaginsev, Vadim	RUS	2635	1976		4*	GM	Tregubov, Pavel V.	RUS	2628	1971
5*	GM	Sakaev, Konstantin	RUS	2627	1974		5*	GM	Volkov, Sergey	RUS	2594	1974
6*	GM	Efimenko, Zahar	UKR	2682	1985		6*	GM	Popov, Valerij	RUS	2570	1974
7	GM	Yemelin, Vasily	RUS	2582	1976		7	GM	Ivanov, Sergey	RUS	2551	1961
8	GM	Turov, Maxim	RUS	2582	1979
		Eurasia-Logistic		2566					Tomsk-400		2685
1*	GM	Belov, Vladimir	RUS	2623	1984		1*	GM	Jakovenko, Dmitry	RUS	2753	1983
2*	GM	Vorobiov, Evgeny E.	RUS	2596	1976		2*	GM	Timofeev, Artyom	RUS	2677	1985
3*	GM	Deviatkin, Andrei	RUS	2566	1980		3*	GM	Inarkiev, Ernesto	RUS	2676	1985
4*	IM	Chadaev, Nikolai	RUS	2557	1988		4*	GM	Tiviakov, Sergei	NED	2697	1973
5*	GM	Rychagov, Andrey	RUS	2530	1979		5*	GM	Tkachiev, Vladislav	FRA	2657	1973
6*	GM	Kharitonov, Alexandr	RUS	2524	1986		6*	GM	Amonatov, Farrukh	TJK	2648	1978
7	IM	Belov, Alexei	RUS	2421	1980		7	GM	Khismatullin, Denis	RUS	2601	1984
							8	GM	Belozerov, Andrei	RUS	2492	1977
		Ural		2701					ShSM-64		2672
1*	GM	Grischuk, Alexander	RUS	2748	1983		1*	GM	Gelfand, Boris	ISR	2733	1968
2*	GM	Shirov, Alexei	ESP	2745	1972		2*	GM	Wang, Hao	CHN	2696	1989
3*	GM	Malakhov, Vladimir	RUS	2709	1980		3*	GM	Najer, Evgeniy	RUS	2669	1977
4*	GM	Rublevsky, Sergei	RUS	2702	1974		4*	GM	Caruana, Fabiano	ITA	2649	1992
5*	GM	Dreev, Alexey	RUS	2668	1969		5*	GM	Grachev, Boris	RUS	2652	1986
6*	GM	Bareev, Evgeny	RUS	2636	1966		6*	GM	Riazantsev, Alexander	RUS	2635	1985
7	GM	Rashkovsky, Nukhim N	RUS	2519	1946		7	GM	Nepomniachtchi, Ian	RUS	2624	1990
							8	GM	Savchenko, Boris	RUS	2655	1986
		M.Chigorin CC		2459					Economist-SGSEU-1		2699
1*	GM	Ionov, Sergey	RUS	2538	1962		1*	GM	Moiseenko, Alexander	UKR	2690	1980
2*	IM	Levin, Evgeny A.	RUS	2456	1990		2*	GM	Alekseev, Evgeny	RUS	2716	1985
3*	IM	Smirnov, Artem	RUS	2454	1985		3*	GM	Tomashevsky, Evgeny	RUS	2684	1987
4*	IM	Lanin, Alexsej	RUS	2457	1988		4*	GM	Ni, Hua	CHN	2724	1983
5*	IM	Lovkov, Roman	RUS	2436	1988		5*	GM	Eljanov, Pavel	UKR	2693	1983
6*	IM	Ivanov, Alexey	RUS	2413	1987		6*	GM	Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime	FRA	2684	1990
7	FM	Pankov, German	RUS	2384	1989		7	GM	Roiz, Michael	ISR/RUS	2635	1983
8		Serov, Maksim	RUS	2340	1990		8	GM	Andreikin, Dmitry	RUS	2625	1990

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