Final position GM Svidler (2746) – GM Alekseev (2711) [C65]12.04.2008Russian Team Championship 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6 4.d3 d6 5.0–0 g6 6.d4 Bd7 7.d5 Ne7 8.Bxd7+ Nxd7 9.c4 Bg7 10.Nc3 0–0 11.Be3 h6 12.Ne1 f5 13.f3 g5 14.Nd3...
An excellent attacking game
Fine victory for BorisBy Malcolm PeinLast Updated: 12:01am BST 10/04/2008 A defeat for Ural of Yekaterinburg in the sixth round did not deprive them of the leading position at the Russian Team Championships taking place at Dagomys in the...
Radjabov wins, Kamsky loses
Interesting results from 2 of the top teams at the Russian Team Championship: Economist 1 2½-3½ Ural Alekseev vs. Radjabov 0-1Tomashevsky vs. Shirov ½-½Eljanov vs. Kamsky 1-0Ni Hua vs. Grischuk ½-½Roiz vs. Malakhov ½-½Moiseenko vs. Dreev 0-1 http://www.russiachess.org/ Chess...
The amazing Russian Team Championship
According to ChessBase, here are some stats from the 2008 Russian Team Championship: Try and picture an event where all of the following hold true: Every one of the 94 participants is a grandmaster;61 of these grandmasters are rated...
Karpov and Korchnoi on the same team?
Shocking but true! The feud between Kasparov and Karpov seemed to vanish and now Korchnoi is playing on the same team as Karpov in the Russian Team Championship! It seems that the Chess For Peace idea has become a...