Chess Queen Alexandra Kosteniuk and Team win all top awards at Russian Team Chess Championship 2011 (Updated)

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Hi everyone,


This is great news. We have the very talented Chess Queen Alexandra Kosteniuk leading her team SHSM-RSCU (Moscow) to the first place in the Russian Team Chess Championships. Also, another great part, she has won the top award for the best performance of 2746 ELO with a fantastic score of 6.0 in seven rounds playing Board 1. She also has the best performance overall in the women's section too.

The winning teams. (We await more photos.)

SHSM-RSCU (top) in the women's section with Chess Queen Alexandra Kosteniuk (highest performance of 2746) and SHSM-64 in the men's section.

It wasn't easy as going into the last round, the SHSM-RSCU was in a must-win situation and also Board 1 Chess Queen Alexandra Kosteniuk had to take on former Women's World Chess Champion Antoaneta Stefanova. Needless to add, coming up with a scintillating performance, Chess Queen Alexandra Kosteniuk won the game and so did the rest of her team beating team ABC by 3-1 in the last round.


This gives us the final standings in the women's team section as follows:

		Points	TB1	TB2
1	SHSM - RSCU	10	18.0	2
2	Giprorechtrans	10	18.0	0
3	ABC	10	16.0	0
4	Rook	10	15.5	0
5	Polytechnic	6	12.0	0
6	SPbShF	4	13.5	0
7	Club Chigorina	3	10.0	0
8	Ugra	3	9.0	0

The SHSM-RSCU (Moscow) team included: Chess Queen Alexandra Kosteniuk, Valentina Gunina, Marina Romanko, Olga Girya and Alina Kashlinskaya. 


In the men's section, the SHSM-64 that scored 20 points overall to win included: Boris Gelfand, Wang Hao, Fabiano Caruana, Anish Giri, Alexander Riazantsev, Vladimir Potkin, Boris Grachev, Evgeniy Najer. 


You can access all the results at the official website here.

The Russian Club Championship was held in the village of Olginka (Krasnodar Territory), Russia, from April 11 to 23.The men's tournament is a round-robin with twelve clubs participating. Each team consists of six players with two reserves.

Time Control: 40 moves in 90 minutes followed by 30 minutes KO and a 30-second increment as of the first move. There were eight teams in the women's section.

Now, some nice games from the last round. Just select the game you want to view from the pull-down menu.

The final individual standings from the teams giving Chess Queen a 2746 Elo performance.

		Name	ELO	Club	Pts.
1	GM	Kosteniuk Alexandra	2503	SHSM - RSCU	85.7	7	1
2	IM	Munguntuul Batkhuyag	2434	"Giprorechtrans"	85.7	7	2
3	WGM	Kashlinskaya Alina	2320	SHSM - RSCU	80.0	5	4
4	IM	Turova Irina	2428	Rook	78.6	7	4
5	IM	Zaiatz Elena	2426	"Giprorechtrans"	71.4	7	3
6	GM	Stefanova Antoaneta	2523	ABC	70.0	5	1
7	IM	Vasilevich Irina	2324	"Giprorechtrans"	70.0	5	4
8	WGM	Gunina Valentina	2472	SHSM - RSCU	66.7	6	2
9	IM	Muzychuk Mariya	2476	ABC	66.7	3	3
10	WGM	Pogonina Natalija	2446	ABC	64.3	7	2
11	WIM	Novikova Anna	2240	Polytechnic	64.3	7	3
12	IM	Gaponenko Inna	2435	Rook	64.3	7	3
13	GM	Cmilyte Viktorija	2526	SPbShF	60.0	5	1
14	GM	Lahno Kateryna	2531	ABC	58.3	6	1
15	IM	Bodnaruk Anastasia	2423	SPbShF	57.1	7	3
16	IM	Galliamova Alisa	2497	Rook	50.0	7	1
17	WGM	Nebolsina Vera	2305	"Ugra"	50.0	7	1
18	WGM	Girya Olga	2425	SHSM - RSCU	50.0	4	3
19	WFM	Gileva Irina	2133	Polytechnic	50.0	2	4
20	WIM	Fominykh Maria	2303	"Giprorechtrans"	50.0	2	4
21	WIM	Ivkina Olga	2289	Club im.M.I.Chigorina	42.9	7	2
22	WGM	Kovanova Baira	2376	SPbShF	42.9	7	4
23	WFM	Kabanova Ekaterina	2190	"Ugra"	41.7	6	3
24	IM	Atalik Ekaterina	2444	SPbShF	40.0	5	2
25	WFM	Rassokhina Ekaterina	2055	Polytechnic	40.0	5	4
26	GM	Socko Monika	2495	SPbShF	37.5	4	1
27	GM	Zhukova Natalia	2443	"Giprorechtrans"	35.7	7	1
28	IM	Ovod Evgenija	2405	Club im.M.I.Chigorina	35.7	7	1
29	WIM	Kharashuta Ekaterina	2270	Polytechnic	35.7	7	2
30	WIM	Bronnikova Elizaveta	2251	Club im.M.I.Chigorina	35.7	7	3
31	WGM	Savina Anastasia	2383	ABC	35.7	7	4
32	IM	Romanko Marina	2402	SHSM - RSCU	33.3	6	2
33	WIM	Tomilova Elena	2315	Polytechnic	28.6	7	1
34	WGM	Paikidze Nazi	2425	Rook	28.6	7	2
35	WIM	Gromova Iulia	2214	Club im.M.I.Chigorina	28.6	7	4
36	WGM	Iljushina Olga	2352	"Ugra"	25.0	6	1
37	WIM	Bezgodova Svetlana	2147	"Ugra"	20.0	5	2
38		Yakupova Aysyla	2115	"Ugra"	12.5	4	4

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Russian team chess championships: Hard-fought games all around

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Hi everyone,

The tough Russian Team Chess Championships are a showcase for some of the world's best chess played. You love to watch every single game! You can find the complete open section results here and the complete women's section results here.

In the open section we have SHSM-64 and Tomsk-400 leading jointly with 17 points each and the rest of the teams a good three points away.

In the women's section we have SHSM-RSCU (Chess Queen Alexandra Kosteniuk's team) in joint lead with Giprorechtrans and ABC with 8 points each. Rook team is just one point behind. The SHSM-RSCU team is just a 0.5 points ahead on tiebreak 2. Five rounds have been played in the women's section while nine rounds have been played in the open section.

Some post-match analysis.

You can access the official website here and a link to all the live games of the current round here.

Now, sample some exciting chess. Of course, we bet you're tracking Chess Queen Alexandra Kosteniuk playing Board 1 for her Moscow team. What if we tell you that this Thursday, the Chess Queen had a real lazy day at the Board... Because her King did all the hard work! You can also access her games at www.chessqueen.com also. Enjoy the games.

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Russian Team Chess Championships: SHSM-64, Tomsk-400 tied for lead after eight rounds

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Hi everyone,

Some more updates from the Russian Team Chess Championships: After eight rounds in the open section, Tomsk-400 and SHSM-64 are tied with 15 points each for the lead after eight rounds. SHSM-64 was trailing by just half a point and it did well to catch up in the eighth round. Even though GM Anish Giri lost to IM Dmitrij Sitnikov, SHSM-64 won all their other games. 

In the women's section, after four rounds we have Giprorechtrans leading with 11.5 points with SHSM-RSCU just half a point behind. You can access the crosstables for the men's section here and the women's section here. There is a day off in the women's section on Wednesday. You can access the official website of the Russian Chess Federation here.

We bet you're following Chess Queen Alexandra Kosteniuk playing Board 1 for the SHSM-RSCU (Moscow) team. So check out all her games played so far in the tournament at this link. Needless to add, the Chess Queen is top scorer with a 100% win performance.

For all those of you who joined us late, the Russian Club Championship is being held in the village of Olginka (Krasnodar Territory), Russia, from April 11 to 23. Stay tuned for updates, magic moves and great games from the event.

Time for some nice games. Enjoy. Watch out for some magic moves.

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Russian Team Chess Championships: Tomsk-400 leads in men's section

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Hi everyone,


The Russian Team League Championships are interestingly poised. After six rounds, in the men's section, we have Tomsk-400 leading with 12 match points followed closely by SHSM-64 at 11 and Ugra at 10 match points. 


Monday is a rest day for the men's section. In the women's section, we have three teams - the SHSM-RSCU, Giprorechtrans and Rook leading with 4 match points each. Following them are Ugra and ABC with 2 match points each. You can see the interesting Round 3 line-up in the women's section here. Chess Queen GM Alexandra Kosteniuk takes on IM Alisa Galliamova on board one for SHSM-RSCU against team Rook. The scoring pattern of the championship is 2 points for a win, one for a draw and none for a lost. You can access all the results here. For now some photos by Maria Bolshakova from the official website. The link for the online broadcast of games is here.

 The SHSM-RSCU team heading for the tournament hall.

Nazi Paikidze and Inna Gaponenko for team Rook

Anish Giri and Fabiano Caruana for SHSM-64

The playing hall

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All excitement at the Russian club team chess championships

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Hi everyone,

We're trying to bring you all the news from the Russian Club Team Chess Championship which is fielding some of the strongest and creative chess players of the world. You can check the women's team compositions at this link and follow Chess Queen Alexandra playing board one for Moscow. The women's team section started on Saturday. We will update the results shortly.



Meanwhile, in the men's section Tomsk-400 (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).

The 18th Russian Team Championship is taking place 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). You can track the performance of the teams in the men's section here.

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. Sixteen-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.

You can access the official website here.

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Russian Team Chess Championship 2010, Last Round Preview

Hello my friends!

After my unexpected loss in the 4th round to Natalia Zhukova, I came back nicely by beating Viktorija Cmilyte today with Black. So I'm at 2 wins, 2 losses and 1 draw, that's 50% and a performance just below 2500, and one game to go tomorrow. My team of Moscow drew their match today and overall is 4th, but tomorrow hopefully we can do well against the Chigorin Chess Club and pass in front of AVS who is not playing tomorrow, and get a medal. I'll let you know how it goes. For the moment the team Giprorechtrans with Zhukova, Munguntuul, Zaiatz, Vasilevich and Fominykh are leading with 8 match points, and very good chances for the Gold!

All the games, past and live, can be seen on http://livechess.chessdom.com/site/. Here below is my game against Cmilyte, I hope you like it (especially my move 36...f3!):

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Russian Team Chess Championship 2010

Hello everyone!

3 rounds to go at the Russian Team Championships. Tomorrow Monday April 5 will be a key match: the Moscow team (Kosteniuk, Kovalevskaya, Gunina, Matveeva, Girya) will play the Giprorechtrans team (Zhukova, Munguntuul, Zaiats, Vasilevich, Fominykh).

Since there is an odd number of teams, each team does not play a round, and that's the case of Giprorechtrans, who is "off" the last round. So if tomorrow, Giprotechtrans wins, they will be able to solidify their edge. If they lose, the fight for first place will be open to 2-3 teams.

Follow the games live on ChessBomb (7 AM New York time).

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Dagomys After 3 Rounds

Hello everybody!

Today was a nice day for me and my team, as we won 3.5 - 0.5 and are now in second position. Since there is an odd number of teams, we're off tomorrow, but the key match will be the day after tomorrow, when we will play Giprorechtrans, who is leading with only 1 match point more (up to now we drew twice and won 1 match). See my team record and see the tournament results table.

Below is my game against Marina Romanko, which I won in nice attacking style with Black:

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Dagomys First Round

Hello dear chess fans,

Today was the first round of the very strong Russian Team Championships, taking place in Dagomys, close to Sochi, Russia. Many of the strongest women chess players of the planet are participating, with 5 holding the Grandmaster (GM) title, and the average tournament rating above 2400 ELO. Even though it's the Russian Team Championship, many non-Russian top women are playing for Russian clubs, making it extra strong and interesting.

My team (Moscow) drew today against the team of Economist Saratov 2-2 . I drew my game, playing Black against Chinese Grandmaster Zhao Xue (see photos), rated 2490 FIDE. You can see the game below.

Tomorrow will be an important day, as our team will play AVS Krasnoturyinsk, which is the rating favorite, boasting an average ELO of 2508.

Important links:

- Official Organizer Page

- The Tournament Table Page

- The Board Results Page

- My results Page

- My team results Page

- Live Games (3 PM local time = 1 PM Paris time = 7 AM New York time)

- PGN Player so you can copy/paste PGN moves to view games.

The team compositions are as follows:

SNo.	Team	Fed.	Local	SNo.	Title	Name	Fed.	FIDE	Birthday
1	SPb Chess Fed	RUS	2461
				1*	IM	Cmilyte, Viktorija	LTU	2485	1983- -
				2*	GM	Socko, Monika	POL	2465	1978- -
				3*	GM	Arakhamia-Grant, Ketevan	SCO	2447	1968- -
				4*	IM	Atalik, Ekaterina	TUR	2445	1982- -
				5	WGM	Bodnaruk, Anastasia	RUS	2384	1992- -
				6	WGM	Demina, Julia	RUS	2339	1969- -
2	M.Chigorin Chess Club	RUS	2296
				1*	WIM	Molchanova, Tatjana	RUS	2369	1980- -
				2*	WIM	Akatova, Ekaterina	RUS	2275	1987- -
				3*	WIM	Bronnikova, Elizaveta	RUS	2271	1985- -
				4*	WIM	Ivkina, Olga	RUS	2268	1985- -
				5	WIM	Solovjova, Valentina	RUS	2256	1986- -
				6	WIM	Gromova, Iulia	RUS	2226	1985- -
3	Economist-SGSEU	RUS	2446
				1*	GM	Zhao, Xue	CHN	2490	1985- -
				2*	IM	Ushenina, Anna	UKR	2452	1985- -
				3*	IM	Paehtz, Elisabeth	GER	2486	1985- -
				4*	WGM	Iljushina, Olga	RUS	2356	1981- -
				5	WGM	Kovanova, Baira	RUS	2385	1987- -
				6	WIM	Tarasova, Viktoriya	RUS	2261	1989- -
4	AVS	RUS	2508
				1*	GM	Stefanova, Antoaneta	BUL	2555	1979- -
				2*	IM	Muzychuk, Anna	SLO	2533	1990- -
				3*	WGM	Pogonina, Natalija	RUS	2501	1985- -
				4*	IM	Muzychuk, Mariya	UKR	2444	1992- -
				5	WGM	Savina, Anastasia	RUS	2391	1992- -
				6	WGM	Shadrina, Tatiana	RUS	2431	1974- -
5	Dvorets	RUS	2294
				1*	IM	Romanko, Marina	RUS	2409	1986- -
				2*	WIM	Paikidze, Nazi	GEO	2322	1993- -
				3*	WFM	Repina, Varvara	RUS	2240	1992- -
				4*		Bukhteeva, Viktoria	RUS	2206	1993- -
6	ShSM	RUS	2448
				1*	GM	Kosteniuk, Alexandra	RUS	2524	1984- -
				2*	IM	Kovalevskaya, Ekaterina	RUS	2438	1974- -
				3*	WFM	Gunina, Valentina	RUS	2457	1989- -
				4*	IM	Matveeva, Svetlana	RUS	2373	1969- -
				5	WGM	Girya, Olga	RUS	2362	1991- -
7	Giprorechtrans	RUS	2409
				1*	WGM	Zhukova, Natalia	UKR	2492	1979- -
				2*	WGM	Munguntuul, Batkhuyag	MGL	2428	1987- -
				3*	IM	Zaiatz, Elena	RUS	2391	1969- -
				4*	IM	Vasilevich, Irina	RUS	2324	1985- -
				5	WIM	Fominykh, Maria	RUS	2268	1987- -

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