Ural Yekaterinburg is new Russian champion

Economist 1 of Saratov finished second

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The 2008 Russian team championship finished yesterday and Ural of Yekaterinburg raised the winner's trophy. As predicted yesterday, Ural quickly drew their match with Finek Gazprom 3-3 and started big celebration. Economist 1, who were breathing on the neck of Ural through entire championship, came second, while TPS Saransk and Finek tied the 3rd place. Last year's champion Tomsk 400 won last two matches, but this was enough only for the 8th place tie.

Winning team featured a powerful lineup: Teimour Radjabov 2751, Alexei Shirov 2755, Gata Kamsky 2732, Alexander Grischuk 2711, Vladimir Malakhov 2689, Vladimir Akopian 2700, Alexey Dreev 2633 and Alexander Motylev 2644.

Round 11 results:

Tomsk 400 - 64 (Moscow) 4-2

GM Alexander Morozevich - GM Boris Gelfand 1-0
GM Sergey Karjakin - GM Sergei Rublevsky draw
GM Dimitry Jakovenko - GM Pentala Harikrishna draw
GM Loek Van Wely - GM Wang Hao draw
GM Artyom Timofeev - GM Evgeny Bareev 1-0
GM Andrei Belozerov - GM Alexander Khalifman draw

Politekhnik (Nizhny Tagil) - Economist 2 (Saratov) 4-2

GM Zahar Efimenko - GM Dimitry Andreikin 1-0
GM Alexander Areshchenko - GM Alexander Evdokimov draw
GM Boris Grachev - GM Alexei Iljushin 1-0
GM Igor Lysyj - GM Alexei Korneev draw
GM Dmitry Bocharov - GM Alexander Kovchan draw
GM Dimitry Kokarev - IM Mikhail Lushenkov draw

Economist 1 (Saratov) - Spasio-Swiss (Moscow) 3.5-2.5

GM Evgeny Alekseev - GM Ruslan Ponomariov draw
GM Evgeny Tomashevsky - GM Igor Khenkin draw
GM Pavel Eljanov - GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov draw
GM Ni Hua - GM Ernesto Inarkiev 1-0
GM Alexander Moiseenko - GM Vladislav Tkachiev draw
GM Alexander Galkin - GM Denis Khismatullin draw

Ural (Yekaterinburg) - Finek Gazprom (Sankt Petersburg) 3-3

GM Teimour Radjabov - GM Peter Svidler draw
GM Gata Kamsky - GM Vadim Zvjaginsev draw
GM Vladimir Malakhov - GM Sergey Movsesjan draw
GM Vladimir Akopian - GM David Navara draw
GM Alexei Dreev - GM Nikita Vitiugov draw
GM Alexander Motylev - GM Vassily Yemelin draw

Shatar Buryatia - TPS Saransk (Saransk) 2.5-3.5

GM Vugar Gashimov - GM Vassily Ivanchuk draw
GM Bu Xiangzhi - GM Konstantin Sakaev draw
GM Anton Shomoev - GM Andrei Volotkin draw
GM Boris Avrukh - GM Emil Sutovsky draw
GM Farukh Ammonatov - GM Mikhail Kobalija draw
GM Alexander Lastin - GM Evgeny Najer 0-1

South Ural (Chelyabinsk) - SHSM (Moscow) 2-4

GM Alexander Riazantsev - GM Alexander Onischuk draw
GM Viktor Korchnoi - GM Karen Asrian draw
GM Evgeny Sveshnikov - GM Vladimir Potkin draw
GM Evgeny Romanov - GM Michal Krasenkow 0-1
IM Pavel Ponkratov - GM Boris Savchenko 0-1
IM Sergey Matsenko - GM Stanislav Novikov draw

Final Standings:

Team / Match points / Game points (click here for the team lists)

1. Ural (Yekaterinburg) 17 (39.5)
2. Economist 1 (Saratov) 15 (37.0)
3-4. TPS Saransk (Saransk) 14 (37.0)
3-4. Finek Gazprom (Sankt Petersburg) 14 (35.5)
5-6. Spasio-Swiss (Moscow) 12 (34.5)
5-6. Shatar Buryatia 12 (34.0)
7. 64 (Moscow) 11 (32.0)
8-9. SHSM (Moscow) 10 (33.5)
8-9. Tomsk 400 10 (31.0)
10. Politekhnik (Nizhny Tagil) 9 (31.0)
11. South Ural (Chelyabinsk) 5 (27.5)
12. Economist 2 (Saratov) 3 (23.5)