Russian team chess championship round 7

Tomsk 400 torpedoed by TPS Saransk, Ural held to another draw

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The rest day at the Russian team championship surely helped the players to charge their batteries as we saw a burst of wonderful chess in today's matches. The highlight of the day is demolition of last year's champion Tomsk 400 who went 0.5-5.5 against inspired TPS Saransk. Vassily Ivanchuk beat Alexander Morozevich and Sergey Karjakin saved a single draw for Tomsk 400.

The leading Ural split the honors with Shatar Buryatia 3-3. Gata Kamsky wins his first game and Alexander Grischuk was effective with the Marshall Attack, but Farukh Ammonatov and in-form Alexander Lastin equalised the match. Economist 1 and South Ural both lacked some of the key players, but team from Saratov proved to have 'longer bench' as substitutions took a clear 4.5-1.5 win. Spasio-Swiss gained momentum after beating '64' Moscow with a sound 4-2. Shakhriyar Mamedyarov wins against disheartened Ian Nepomniachtchi and the second executor was Denis Khismatullin.

Round 7 results:

Spasio-Swiss (Moscow) - 64 (Moscow) 4-2

GM Ruslan Ponomariov - GM Boris Gelfand draw
GM Igor Khekin - GM Sergei Rublevsky draw
GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov - GM Ian Nepomniachtchi 1-0
GM Ernesto Inarkiev - GM Pentala Harikrishna draw
GM Vladislav Tkachiev - GM Wang Hao draw
GM Denis Khismatullin - GM Maxim Rodshtein 1-0

Economist 2 (Saratov) - Finek Gazprom (Sankt Petersburg) 2-4

GM Dimitry Andreikin - GM Vadim Zvjaginsev draw
GM Alexander Evdokimov - GM Sergey Movsesjan 0-1
GM Alexei Iljushin - GM David Navara draw
GM Sergey Dyachkov - GM Nikita Vitiugov 0-1
GM Alexander Kovchan - GM Maxim Turov draw
IM Mihail Lushenkov - GM Vassily Yemelin draw

Tomsk 400 - TPS Saransk (Saransk) 0.5-5.5

GM Alexander Morozevich - GM Vassily Ivanchuk 0-1
GM Sergey Karjakin - GM Konstantin Sakaev draw
GM Dimitry Jakovenko - GM Andrei Volotkin 0-1
GM Loek Van Wely - GM Emil Sutovsky 0-1
GM Artyom Timofeev - GM Mikhail Kobalia 0-1
GM Andrei Belozerov - GM Evgeny Najer 0-1

Politekhnik (Nizhny Tagil) - SHSM (Moscow) 2-4

GM Zahar Efimenko - GM Alexander Onischuk draw
GM Alexander Areshchenko - GM Karen Asrian 0-1
GM Boris Grachev - GM Ivan Popov draw
GM Igor Lysyj - GM Vladimir Potkin draw
GM Pavel Maletin - GM Boris Savchenko 0-1
GM Dimitry Kokarev - GM Stanislav Novikov draw

Economist 1 (Saratov) - South Ural (Chelyabinsk) 4.5-1.5

GM Evgeny Alekseev - GM Alexander Riazantsev draw
GM Ni Hua - GM Viktor Korchnoi draw
GM Michael Roiz - GM Igor Kurnosov 1-0
GM Alexander Moiseenko - GM Evgeny Sveshnikov 1-0
GM Alexander Galkin - GM Evgeny Romanov 1-0
GM Ildar Khairullin - IM Pavel Ponkratov draw

Ural (Yekaterinburg) - Shatar Buryatia 3-3

GM Teimour Radjabov - GM Vugar Gashimov draw
GM Alexei Shirov - GM Bu Xiangzhi draw
GM Gata Kamsky - GM Kamil Miton 1-0
GM Alexander Grischuk - GM Anton Shomoev 1-0
GM Alexei Dreev - GM Farukh Ammonatov 0-1
GM Alexander Motylev - GM Alexander Lastin 0-1

Current Standings

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

1. Ural (Yekaterinburg) 11 (25.5)
2-4. TPS Saransk (Saransk) 10 (25.0)
2-4. Economist 1 (Saratov) 10 (24.5)
2-4. Finek Gazprom (Sankt Petersburg) 10 (24.0)
5. Shatar Buryatia 9 (22.0)
6. SHSM (Moscow) 8 (23.0)
7-8. Spasio-Swiss (Moscow) 7 (21.0)
7-8. 64 (Moscow) 7 (19.5)
9. Tomsk 400 4 (17.0)
10-11. Politekhnik (Nizhny Tagil) 3 (17.5)
10-11. Economist 2 (Saratov) 3 (16.0)
12. South Ural (Chelyabinsk) 2 (17.0)