Russian team chess championship round 9

Ural wins, derby Economist-TPS ended even 3-3. Results, standings, games

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Economist 1 and TPS Saransk have split the honors in the derby, but this only helped Ural to extend the leading margin to two points. Pavel Eljanov again was the only to score for Economist, this time against fellow Ukrainian Andrei Volokitin, but Evgeny Najer from the 6th board managed to even up the score. SHSM practically resigned the match against leading Ural by resting top two boards. Shirov and Dreev won with black pieces for comfortable 4-2.

Tomsk 400 is clearly out of form, they lost another match and sunk down to 10th place. Ruslan Ponomariov beat Alexander Morozevich with black pieces, replay the game bellow. Karpov and his coach Riazantsev skipped this round, but even without top two boards South Ural was capable of upsetting favored Shatar Buryatia. Viktor Korchnoi used French McCutcheon to beat Grand-Prix participant Vugar Gashimov, and another veteran, Evgeny Sveshnikov, famous of his variation in Sicilian defence and fight for games copyright, secured two points by scoring against Kamil Miton.

Round 9 results:

Economist 2 (Saratov) - 64 (Moscow) 1.5-4.5

GM Dimitry Andreikin - GM Sergei Rublevsky draw
GM Alexander Evdokimov - GM Ian Nepomniachtchi 0-1
GM Alexei Iljushin - GM Pentala Harikrishna draw
GM Alexei Korneev - GM Wang Hao 0-1
GM Alexander Kovchan - GM Evgeny Bareev 0-1
IM Mikhail Lushenkov - GM Maxim Rodstein draw

Tomsk 400 - Spasio-Swiss (Moscow) 2-4

GM Alexander Morozevich - GM Ruslan Ponomariov 0-1
GM Sergey Karjakin - GM Igor Khenkin draw
GM Dimitry Jakovenko - GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov draw
GM Loek Van Wely - GM Ernesto Inarkiev draw
GM Artyom Timofeev - GM Vladislav Tkachiev draw
GM Andrei Belozerov - GM Denis Khismatullin 0-1

Politekhnik (Nizhny Tagil) - Finek Gazprom (Sankt Petersburg) 3-3

GM Zahar Efimenko - GM Peter Svidler draw
GM Alexander Areshchenko - GM Vadim Zvjaginsev 0-1
GM Boris Grachev - GM Sergey Movsesjan draw
GM Igor Lysyj - GM David Navara draw
GM Dmitry Bocharov - GM Nikita Vitiugov 1-0
GM Roman Ovetchkin - GM Vassily Yemelin draw

Economist 1 (Saratov) - TPS Saransk (Saransk) 3-3

GM Evgeny Alekseev - GM Vassily Ivanchuk draw
GM Evgeny Tomashevsky - GM Konstantin Sakaev draw
GM Pavel Eljanov - GM Andrei Volotkin 1-0
GM Ni Hua - GM Emil Sutovsky draw
GM Alexander Moiseenko - GM Mikhail Kobalia draw
GM Ildar Khairullin - GM Evgeny Najer 0-1

Ural (Yekaterinburg) - SHSM (Moscow) 4-2

GM Teimour Radjabov - GM Ivan Popov draw
GM Alexei Shirov - GM Sergey Grigoriants 1-0
GM Gata Kamsky - GM Vladimir Potkin draw
GM Alexander Grischuk - GM Michał Krasenkow draw
GM Vladimir Malakhov - GM Boris Savchenko draw
GM Alexei Dreev - GM Stanislav Novikov 1-0

Shatar Buryatia - South Ural (Chelyabinsk) 2.5-3.5

GM Vugar Gashimov - GM Viktor Korchnoi 0-1
GM Bu Xiangzhi - GM Igor Kurnosov draw
GM Kamil Miton - GM Evgeny Sveshnikov 0-1
GM Anton Shomoev - GM Evgeny Romanov draw
GM Farukh Ammonatov - IM Pavel Ponkratov draw
GM Alexander Lastin - IM Sergey Matsenko 1-0

Current Standings

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

1. Ural (Yekaterinburg) 15 (33.5)
2. Economist 1 (Saratov) 13 (31.0)
3-5. TPS Saransk (Saransk) 11 (30.5)
3-5. Finek Gazprom (Sankt Petersburg) 11 (29.0)
3-5. Spasio-Swiss (Moscow) 11 (29.0)
6-7. Shatar Buryatia 10 (27.5)
6-7. 64 (Moscow) 10 (27.0)
8. SHSM (Moscow) 8 (27.5)
9-10. Politekhnik (Nizhny Tagil) 6 (24.0)
9-10. Tomsk 400 6 (23.0)
11. South Ural (Chelyabinsk) 4 (22.5)
12. Economist 2 (Saratov) 3 (19.5)