Tomsk-400 wins Russian Team Cup
They did it in 2007 and this year they did it again: Tomsk-400, the team lead by Jakovenko and Timofeev, won the Premier League of the Russian Team Cup with 11 match points and 23.5 game points out of 7 matches. Spartak won the Women's League while Polytechnik came first in the second-level "Higher League".
The Russian Team Cup took place in Dagomys April 4-10, 2009. This year only 7 rounds were played in the Premier League, after the economic situation caused a couple of teams to withdraw. The Women's League was also 8 teams; the league below the Premier, interestingly called Higher League, consisted of 10 teams, and started two days earlier.
Rounds 6-7
Moscow 64 was leading the pack, one point ahead of Tomsk-400 and two points ahead of St. Petersburg and Economist. The team from Russia's capital drew with Economist in round 6; Najer lost to European Champ Tomashevsky but Caruana defeated another strong player, Ni Hua, to level the score. The 16-year-old Italian scored 5.0/6 in Dagomys; a fantastic 2896 performance!
The Tomsk team joined Moscow in the lead thanks to an excellent 2.5-3.5 victory over St. Petersburg where the only decisive games was Tkachiev's win over Zvjaginsev.
Moscow then lost their final round match against St. Petersburg 2.5-3.5, and so Tomsk, beating Eurasia-Logistic with the same score, eventually took the cup. Amonatov was the man of the match, scoring the only win, against Rychagov.
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Games selection rounds 6-7
Polytechnik, a team led by relatively unknown GMs Kokarev and Maletin, won the Higher League while Spartak, with Stefanova, the Kosintseva sisters, Lahno and Ovod, won the Women's - only by one board point, though.
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Castro
2 years 10 months ago
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I understand, sure, but if it should be a non-human error, it remains odd that finish: Either white, in fact, played Kf5, or else it's somewhat strange resigning after taking the rook, 'cause the loss is as evident as before (and for some moves). But well, strange but posible. And it also could have been a loss on time. Mmmm, really plausible... :-)
Castro
2 years 10 months ago
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In Smirnov x Tomashevsky it must have been played 83. ... Kf5 (0-1) rather than 83. ...Ke5 which would allow an imediate draw, something also imediately spoted in the live transmision.
Very nice games. (Shirov at his best, Caruana stronger, Tomashevsky confirming, Rublevky back on business)
CAL|Daniel
2 years 10 months ago
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How on earth does one get "with 11 match points and 23.5 game points out of 7 matches." The max match points in 7 matches is... 7.
Thomas
2 years 10 months ago
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@Castro: This is a typical live transmission feature/error/bug happening more frequently. After white's resignation, the black king is put in the middle of the board (on square e5) to indicate that the result was 0-1. And the transmission software records -Ke5 as the final move, provided that it happens to be a legal one ... .
@CAL|Daniel: The scoring system used in Russia as well as (my own experience) other European countries assigns 2 match points for a win, and 1 for a drawn match. Maybe this is different in the USA?
Thomas
2 years 10 months ago
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And I can add that, for obvious reasons, the software "fails" to record other 'moves' made after the end of the game - in the given example: h4-h2, Kf7-e1, h5-h7 (and putting all other pieces back on the board) :)
Castro
2 years 10 months ago
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In some countries there is an (equivalent, as for actual played matches) point system: 3 for a win, 2 for a draw, 1 for a loss. 0 for not showing up! (Among other penalities)
Jagadish Dube.
2 years 10 months ago
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I suggest to obliterate the Russian Team Cup from Current Events in the Tournament Calendar as it is already over.
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