Russian team chess championship round 6

Ural lost but still in the lead. Results, standings, games

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Powerful Ural succumbed to "64" Moscow but retained two points lead as other results favored them. Shirov and Grischuk lost against Gelfand and Wang Hao respectively and Malakhov scored the only full point for Ural. Teimour Radjabov didn't play this round.

Chinese are playing extremely well, this time Ni Hua brought home decisive point for Economist 1 in the tight match with Shatar Buryatia. Economist 1 joined the bulk of teams on the 2nd place tie.

Alexander Morozevich booked third consecutive win and enabled Tomsk 400 to get two points from otherwise even match against SHSM. South Ural stunned Politekhnik when two IMs on the lower boards beat Grandmasters for clean 4-2 match win.

Round 6 results:

64 (Moscow) - Ural (Yekaterinburg) 3.5-2.5

GM Boris Gelfand - GM Alexei Shirov 1-0
GM Pentala Harikrishna - GM Gata Kamsky draw
GM Wang Hao - GM Alexander Grischuk 1-0
GM Evgeny Bareev - GM Vladimir Malakhov 0-1
GM Alexander Khalifman - GM Vladimir Akopian draw
GM Maxim Rodshtein - GM Alexander Motylev draw

Shatar Buryatia - Economist 1 (Saratov) 2.5-3.5

GM Vugar Gashimov - GM Evgeny Alekseev draw
GM Bu Xiangzhi - GM Evgeny Tomashevsky draw
GM Pavel Tregubov - GM Pavel Eljanov draw
GM Boris Avrukh - GM Ni Hua 0-1
GM Farukh Ammonatov - GM Michael Roiz draw
GM Alexander Lastin - GM Alexander Galkin draw

South Ural (Chelabinsk) - Politekhnik (Nizhny Tagil) 4-2

GM Anatoly Karpov - GM Zahar Efimenko draw
GM Alexander Riazantsev - GM Alexander Areshchenko draw
GM Viktor Korchnoi - GM Boris Grachev draw
GM Igor Kurnosov - GM Igor Lysyj draw
IM Pavel Ponkratov - GM Dimitri Bocharov 1-0
IM Sergei Matsenko - GM Dimitry Kokarev 1-0

SHSM (Moscow) - Tomsk 400 2.5-3.5

GM Alexander Onischuk - GM Alexander Morozevich 0-1
GM Karen Asrian - GM Sergey Karjakin draw
GM Sergey Grigoriants - GM Dimitry Jakovenko draw
GM Vladimir Potkin - GM Loek Van Wely draw
GM Michal Krasenkow - GM Artyom Timofeev draw
GM Stanislav Novikov - GM Andrei Belozerov draw

TPS Saransk (Saransk) - Economist 2 (Saratov) 4-2

GM Vassily Ivanchuk - GM Dimitry Andreikin draw
GM Konstantin Sakaev - GM Alexander Evdokimov draw
GM Andrei Volotkin - GM Alexei Iljushin 1-0
GM Emil Sutovsky - GM Evgeny Shaposhnikov draw
GM Mikhail Kobalia - GM Alexei Korneev 1-0
GM Sergey Volkov - IM Mihail Lushenkov draw

Finek Gazprom (Sankt Petersburg) - Spasio-Swiss (Moscow) 3-3

GM Peter Svidler - GM Ruslan Ponomariov draw
GM Sergey Movsesjan - GM Igor Khekin draw
GM David Navara - GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov 1-0
GM Nikita Vitiugov - GM Ernesto Inarkiev 0-1
GM Vassily Yemelin - GM Vladislav Tkachiev draw
GM Marat Makarov - GM Alexei Aleksandrov draw

Current Standings

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

1. Ural (Yekaterinburg) 10 (22.5)
2-5. Finek Gazprom (Sankt Petersburg) 8 (20.0)
2-5. Economist 1 (Saratov) 8 (20.0)
2-5. TPS Saransk (Saransk) 8 (19.5)
2-5. Shatar Buryatia 8 (19.0)
6. 64 (Moscow) 7 (17.5)
7. SHSM (Moscow) 6 (19.0)
8. Spasio-Swiss (Moscow) 5 (17.0)
9. Tomsk 400 4 (16.5)
10-11. Politekhnik (Nizhny Tagil) 3 (15.5)
10-11. Economist 2 (Saratov) 3 (14.0)
12. South Ural (Chelyabinsk) 2 (15.5)