Tomsk-400 and SHSM-64 lead at Russian Team Championship

At the Russian Team Championship Tomsk-400 (the team led by Ponomariov and Motylev) and SHSM-64 (with Gelfand, Wang Hao, Caruana, Giri, and Potkin) are sharing the lead after four rounds. Other top names active in Olginka, Russia are Ivanchuk and Svidler, playing for St. Petersburg, and Nepomniachtchi and Eljanov (Economist).

Alexander Moiseenko, Dmitry Andreikin and Evgeny Alekseev playing for Economist | Photo © Maria Bolshakova

The 18th Russian Team Championship takes place April 11-13 in Olginka (Krasnodar Territory), Russia. The organizers had to leave the traditional hotel complex “Dagomys”, close to Sochi, Russia because this is under reconstruction.

Each team consists of 6 players and 2 reserves. The rate of play is 90 minutes for the first 40 moves and then 30 minutes to end the game with 30 seconds increment from move one. Each day the rounds start at 14.30 local time (12.30 CET).

The line-ups of the teams:

Russian Team Championship 2011 | Teams

Atom
Board	Title	Name	Rating	Fed
1	GM	Chadaev Nikolai	2573	RUS
2	FM	Grishchenko Sergey	2475	RUS
3	FM	Nakhapetiane Pogos	2495	RUS
4		Manukyan Sargis V	2272	ARM
5	GM	Kalugin Sergey V	2390	RUS
6		Rodin Dmitrij	2442	RUS
7	FM	Pogosian Georgy	2157	RUS
8		Perekhodkin Vladimir	2232	RUS
SPb Chess Fed
Board	Title	Name	Rating	Fed
1	GM	Ivanchuk Vassily	2779	UKR
2	GM	Svidler Peter	2730	RUS
3	GM	Vitiugov Nikita	2720	RUS
4	GM	Movsesian Sergei	2716	ARM
5	GM	Efimenko Zahar	2708	UKR
6	GM	Zvjaginsev Vadim	2663	RUS
7	GM	Khairullin Ldar	2634	RUS
8	GM	Matlakov Maxim	2625	RUS
Club MI Chigorin
Board	Title	Name	Rating	Fed
1	GM	Romanov Evgeny	2624	RUS
2	GM	Shimanov Aleksandr	2550	RUS
3	GM	Makarov Marat	2520	RUS
4	GM	Popov Valerij	2565	RUS
5	GM	Ionov Sergey	2541	RUS
6	GM	Lintchevski Daniil	2539	RUS
7	IM	Anisimov Pavel	2532	RUS
8	GM	Levin Evgeny A	2472	RUS
SHSM-64
Board	Title	Name	Rating	Fed
1	GM	Gelfand Boris	2733	ISR
2	GM	Wang Hao	2728	CHN
3	GM	Caruana Fabiano	2716	ITA
4	GM	Giri Anish	2690	NED
5	GM	Riazantsev Alexander	2679	RUS
6	GM	Potkin Vladimir	2653	RUS
7	GM	Grachev Boris	2675	RUS
8	GM	Najer Evgeniy	2638	RUS
OSDYUSSHOR Kemerovo
Board	Title	Name	Rating	Fed
1	GM	Nevostrujev Vladimir	2475	RUS
2	IM	Sitnikov Dmitrij	2470	RUS
3	IM	Pokazanjev Nikolai	2423	RUS
4		Konyshev Artem	2379	RUS
5		Kljucharev Sergey	2375	RUS
6	WFM	Cheremnova Tamara	2221	RUS
7	IM	Shuraev Andrei	2371	RUS
8	FM	Feofanov Vladimir	2287	RUS
Yamal
Board	Title	Name	Rating	Fed
1	IM	Potapov Pavel	2474	RUS
2	IM	Kuznetsov Viktor	2427	RUS
3	FM	Zolotukhin Valery	2338	RUS
4	FM	Belyakov Bogdan	2301	RUS
5	FM	Gafner Evgeny J	2296	RUS
6	IM	Scerbin Dmitrij	2349	RUS
7		Pranizin Gennady	2171	RUS
8	WFM	Semenova Elena	2170	RUS
Tomsk-400
Board	Title	Name	Rating	Fed
1	GM	Ponomariov Ruslan	2743	UKR
2	GM	Motylev Alexander	2677	RUS
3	GM	Areshchenko Alexander	2687	UKR
4	GM	Inarkiev Ernesto	2674	RUS
5	GM	Bologan Viktor	2671	MDA
6	GM	Khismatullin Denis	2662	RUS
7	GM	Kurnosov Igor	2653	RUS
YSU - VISTA
Board	Title	Name	Rating	Fed
1	GM	Frolyanov Dmitry	2610	RUS
2	GM	Zontakh Andrey	2568	UKR
3	GM	Vysochin Spartak	2526	UKR
4	IM	Airapetian Gor	2460	RUS
5	IM	Gladyszev Oleg	2482	RUS
6		Venevtsev Andrey	2330	RUS
7	IM	Ajrapetian Gevorg	2419	RUS
8	IM	Zimmerman Yuri	2321	RUS
Polytechnic
Board	Title	Name	Rating	Fed
1	GM	Bocharov Dmitry	2595	RUS
2	GM	Maletin Pavel	2584	RUS
3	GM	Kokarev Dmitry	2576	RUS
4	GM	Kryakvin Dmitry	2573	RUS
5	GM	Ovetchkin Roman	2487	RUS
6	GM	Vokarev Sergey	2455	RUS
7	GM	Khasin Alexander	2501	RUS
8	GM	Yudin Sergei	2518	RUS
Economist
Board	Title	Name	Rating	Fed
1	GM	Nepomniachtchi Ian	2729	RUS
2	GM	Eljanov Pavel	2724	UKR
3	GM	Tomashevsky Evgeny	2707	RUS
4	GM	Alekseev Evgeny	2688	RUS
5	GM	Andreikin Dmitry	2686	RUS
6	GM	Moiseenko Alexander	2673	UKR
7	GM	Roiz Michael	2661	ISR
8	GM	Ni Hua	2646	CHN
NIU "BSU"
Board	Title	Name	Rating	Fed
1	GM	Savchenko Boris	2616	RUS
2	GM	Malaniuk Vladimir P	2494	UKR
3	IM	Danin Alexandre	2543	RUS
4	GM	Smirnov Pavel	2539	RUS
5	GM	Ivanov Alexander Al	2460	RUS
6	IM	Bogdanovich Stanislav	2512	UKR
7	GM	Bryzgalin Kirill	2461	RUS
8	IM	Lushenkov Mikhail	2441	RUS
"UGRA"
Board	Title	Name	Rating	Fed
1	GM	Jakovenko Dmitry	2718	RUS
2	GM	Malakhov Vladimir	2714	RUS
3	GM	Rublevsky Sergei	2678	RUS
4	GM	Dreev Aleksey	2697	RUS
5	GM	Zhigalko Sergei	2680	BLR
6	GM	Sjugirov Sanan	2643	RUS
7	GM	Pridorozhni Aleksei	2542	RUS
8	GM	Kabanov Nikolai	2524	RUS

The teams Tomsk-400 and SHSM-64 both started with four victories. For Tomsk-400, Ponomariov, Motylev, Khismatullin and Kurnosov all scored 3/4 so far, while Bologan is on +1. SHSM-64's Evgeny Najer is the top scorer in the whole competition so far, with 4/4. His team member Caruana is on 3/4 and Potkin, Giri and Grachev scored 2.5 points. 16-year-old Anish Giri is making his début in the Russian Team Championship and had a solid start. He drew his three black games, and then won with the white pieces in round 4.

Photos © Maria Bolshakova, more here

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Russian Team Championship 2011 | Round 4 Standings

#	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	TB1	TB2	TB3
1	Tomsk-400	*			3½		4		4½				5½	8	17.5	0
2	SHSM-64		*	3½					4½	4		5		8	17.0	0
3	Economist		2½	*				4			5½		5	6	17.0	0
4	Ugra	2½			*	3½	5½					4½		6	16.0	2
5	SPb Chess Fed				2½	*		4		4½		5		6	16.0	0
6	YSU - VISTA	2			½		*				3½		5½	4	11.5	0
7	Club MI Chigorin			2		2		*		3½		4		4	11.5	0
8	Polytechnic	1½	1½						*		3½		3½	4	10.0	0
9	NIU BSU		2			1½		2½		*	5			2	11.0	0
10	Kemerovo			½			2½		2½	1	*			0	6.5	0
11	Atom		1		1½	1		2				*		0	5.5	0
12	Yamal	½		1			½		2½				*	0	4.5	0

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