Russian team chess championship round 8

Ural and Economist 1 singled out on the top

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After the yesterday's sensational win over Tomsk 400, TPS Saransk failed to follow the pace and lost to lower placed Politekhnik. Ivanchuk beat fellow Ukrainian Efimenko, but Sutovsky and Volkov lost to Lysyj and Bocharov. Team from Yekaterinburg convincingly won the Ural derby, Kamsky outplayed Korchnoi in his beloved Open Ruy Lopez, Akopian and Dreev secured a win soon after.

The finely balanced team of Economist 1 is firmly holding the 2nd position, only a point behind Ural. Tomsk 400 recovered and beat the strong Finek Gazprom 4-2, this time without losing a single game.

Round 8 results:

64 (Moscow) - Shatar Buryatia 3-3

GM Boris Gelfand - GM Vugar Gashimov draw
GM Sergei Rublevsky - GM Bu Xiangzhi draw
GM Pentala Harikrishna - GM Anton Shomoev 1-0
GM Wang Hao - GM Boris Avrukh draw
GM Evgeny Bareev - GM Farukh Ammonatov 0-1
GM Alexander Khalifman - GM Alexander Lastin draw

South Ural (Chelyabinsk) - Ural (Yekaterinburg) 2-4

GM Alexander Riazantsev - GM Teimour Radjabov draw
GM Viktor Korchnoi - GM Gata Kamsky 0-1
GM Igor Kurnosov - GM Vladimir Malakhov 1-0
GM Evgeny Romanov - GM Vladimir Akopian 0-1
IM Pavel Ponkratov - GM Alexei Dreev 0-1
IM Sergey Matsenko - GM Alexander Motylev draw

SHSM (Moscow) - Economist 1 (Saratov) 2.5-3.5

GM Alexander Onischuk - GM Evgeny Tomashevsky draw
GM Karen Asrian - GM Pavel Eljanov 0-1
GM Ivan Popov - GM Ni Hua draw
GM Sergey Grigoriants - GM Michael Roiz draw
GM Michał Krasenkow - GM Alexander Galkin 1-0
GM Boris Savchenko - GM Ildar Khairullin 0-1

TPS Saransk (Saransk) - Politekhnik (Nizhny Tagil) 2.5-3.5

GM Vassily Ivanchuk - GM Zahar Efimenko 1-0
GM Konstantin Sakaev - GM Alexander Areshchenko draw
GM Andrei Volotkin - GM Boris Grachev draw
GM Emil Sutovsky - GM Igor Lysyj 0-1
GM Sergey Volkov - GM Dmitry Bocharov 0-1
GM Evgeny Najer - GM Roman Ovetchkin draw

Finek Gazprom (Sankt Petersburg) - Tomsk 400 2-4

GM Peter Svidler - GM Alexander Morozevich draw
GM Vadim Zvjaginsev - GM Sergey Karjakin 0-1
GM Sergey Movsesjan - GM Dimitry Jakovenko draw
GM David Navara - GM Loek Van Wely draw
GM Nikita Vitiugov - GM Artyom Timofeev 0-1
GM Maxim Turov - GM Andrei Belozerov draw

Spasio-Swiss (Moscow) - Economist 2 (Saratov) 4-2

GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov - GM Dimitry Andreikin draw
GM Ernesto Inarkiev - GM Alexander Evdokimov draw
GM Vladislav Tkachiev - GM Alexei Iljushin 1-0
GM Alexei Aleksandrov - GM Evgeny Shaposhnikov draw
GM Denis Khismatullin - GM Alexei Korneev 1-0
GM Vladimir Kosyrev - GM Alexander Kovchan draw

Current Standings

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

1. Ural (Yekaterinburg) 13 (29.5)
2. Economist 1 (Saratov) 12 (28.0)
3-5. TPS Saransk (Saransk) 10 (27.5)
3-5. Finek Gazprom (Sankt Petersburg) 10 (26.0)
3-5. Shatar Buryatia 10 (25.0)
6. Spasio-Swiss (Moscow) 9 (25.0)
7-8. SHSM (Moscow) 8 (25.5)
7-8. 64 (Moscow) 8 (22.5)
9. Tomsk 400 6 (21.0)
10. Politekhnik (Nizhny Tagil) 5 (21.0)
11. Economist 2 (Saratov) 3 (18.0)
12. South Ural (Chelyabinsk) 2 (19.0)