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Ural Ekaterinenburg the strongest
14 April 2008 8:53 AM | Last modified: 9:03
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:
Russian Team Ch 2008 Final Standings
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Russian Team Ch 2008 Topscorers
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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 2½-3½ FINEK - Shatar 2½-3½ Shatar - Spacio 3-3 Spacio - Ural 2-4 Ural - Economist-2 4½-1½ Economist-2 - Economist-1 2-4 Economist-1 - Tomsk-400 4-2 Tomsk-400 - Polytechnic 2½-3½ 64 - Polytechnic 3-3 Round 3: 4 April 2008 Round 4: 5 April 2008 FINEK - SHSM 3½-2½ Ural - Polytechnic 4-2 ТПС - 64 3-3 64 - Economist-1 3½-2½ Spacio - South Ural 3½-2½ TPN - FINEK 3-3 Economist-2 - Shatar 3-3 Shatar - Tomsk-400 3½-2½ Tomsk-400 - Ural 2-4 SHSM - Spacio 3-3 Polytechnic - Economist-1 2½-3½ South Ural - Economist-2 2½-3½ Round 5: 6 April 2008 Round 6: 7 April 2008 Economist-1 - Ural 2½-3½ 64 - Ural 3½-2½ Polytechnic - Shatar 2½-3½ Shatar - Economist-1 2½-3½ FINEK - 64 4½-1½ FINEK - Spacio 3-3 Spacio - TPS 2½-3½ SHSM - Tomsk-400 2½-3½ 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 2½-3½ Tomsk-400 - TPS 0½-5½ FINEK - Tomsk-400 2-4 Economist-1 - South Ural 4½-1½ TPN - Polytechnic 2½-3½ 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 3½-2½ Polytechnic - FINEK 3-3 Spacio - Polytechnic 3-3 Shatar - South Ural 2½-3½ 64 - South Ural 3-3 Tomsk-400 - Spacio 2-4 SHSM - Shatar 2-4 Economist-2 - 64 1½-4½ Economist-2 - Tomsk-400 2-4 Round 11: 13 April 2008 Ural - FINEK 3-3 Economist-1 - Spacio 3½-2½ Shatar - TPS 2½-3½ Tomsk-400 - 64 4-2 South Ural - SHSM 2-4 Polytechnic - Economist-2 4-2
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one more hint that the chinese are coming.. all 3 of them in the topscorers list!
Enhorabuena al Ural. Era previsible su victoria y no se han dejado sorprender.