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Svidler, Grischuk, and Ivanchuk in Russian Team Cup

7 April 2009, 15.53 CET | Last modified: 18:29 | By Peter Doggers  | Filed under: Reports | Tags:

Dagomys 2009Tomsk 400, Moscow 64 and Economist 1 are leading the Russian Team Cup after 3 of 7 rounds. Top players currently playing in Dagomys include Svidler, Grischuk, Movsesian, Ivanchuk, Jakovenko and Gelfand. The first three rounds saw many draws and a bunch of interesting games, which we’ve selected for you for replay.

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.

16th Russian Club Cup, Premier League | Round 3 Standings

SNo. Team Local 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Match Points Total Place
1 SPbChFed 2684 X 3.0 3.0         2.5 2.0 8.5 6
2 Eurasia-Logistic 2566 3.0 X         2.0 2.5 1.0 7.5 7
3 Ural 2701 3.0   X     3.0 3.0   3.0 9.0 5
4 M.Chigorin CC 2459       X 1.5 1.5 1.0   0.0 4.0 8
5 TPS 2645       4.5 X 2.5   3.0 3.0 10.0 4
6 Tomsk-400 2685     3.0 4.5 3.5 X     5.0 11.0 2
7 ShSM-64 2672   4.0 3.0 5.0     X   5.0 12.0 1
8 Economist-SGSEU - 1 2699 3.5 3.5     3.0     X 5.0 10.0 3


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
                         


As always, the Russian Team Cup produces many high-level games and from the first three rounds we’ve made a selection of encounters we especially like. Don’t miss Nepomniachtchi’s combination against Kharitonov which will surely be included in future puzzle books, while Shirov clearly feels at home in the current theoretical complications of the Najdorf Poisened Pawn, against Chinese GM Wang Hao. The strongest game so far was Grischuk-Svidler; nice play by St. Petersburg’s best player in a queenless, Gr?ºnfeld middlegame.

Games selection for replay

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8 Responses to “Svidler, Grischuk, and Ivanchuk in Russian Team Cup”

  1. Castro on April 7th, 2009 16:52

    Very nice combination indeed!
    And Kharitonov could have resigned 22 moves earlier (at the 26th), even against a non-master like me. The rest is also nice, but easy tecnic.

  2. Jagadish Dube. on April 9th, 2009 10:37

    Can any chess lover copy & paste the exact website to view the live games of the above tournaments as it is in the concluding stage.
    Jagdish Dube.

  3. Thomas on April 9th, 2009 13:20

    http://www.russiachess.org/online/index.htm
    (the official site is in Russian, but “ONLINE” is in non-kyrillic letters …)

  4. Peter Doggers on April 9th, 2009 15:50

    http://www.russiachess.org/online/

  5. Jagadish Dube. on April 9th, 2009 17:35

    Thank You, Professor Peter Doggers,I could witness several matches simultaneously.Still some games are going on.

  6. Jagadish Dube. on April 9th, 2009 19:18

    Thank You,Thomas,Your comment was moderated & hence delayed as per normal practice of CHESSVIBES.
    Jagadish Dube,INDIA.

  7. Coco Loco on April 10th, 2009 16:32

    It’s always interesting to look at tournaments in Russia and see players unknown in the west holding their own against the “big guns”. For example, who is this 47-or-so-year-old Sergey Ionov?
    http://www.russiachess.org/results/2009/dagomys/pl/cardf_z$66.html
    Or look at Belov’s results…
    http://www.russiachess.org/results/2009/dagomys/pl/cardf_z$88.html

  8. Buri on April 13th, 2009 12:33

    A nice game by Shirov! :)

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