The team from Ural easily wins the super Russian Team Championships. Here is the line up for the Ural team:
Board 1: Radjabov
Board 2: Shirov
Board 3: Kamsky
Board 4: Grischuk
Board 5: Malakhov
Board 6: Akopian
Reserves: Dreev and Motylev
Final Standings:
1. Ural (Yekaterinburg) 16 (36½)
2. Economist-1 (Saratov) 13 (33½)
3. Finek (St Petersburg) 13 (32½)
4. TPS (Saransk) 12 (33½)
5. Spasio-Swiss (Moscow) 12 (32)
6. Shatar (Buryatia) 12 (31½)
7. ’64’ (Moscow) 11 (30)
8. SHSM (Moscow) 8 (29½)
9. Tomsk-400 (Tomsk) 8 (27)
10. Politekhnik (N. Tagil) 7 (27), etc.
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
With Gata Kamsky on the team where else would they end up but first.
Looking at the picture… it looks like a typical Ural summer!
Yup.
Those are not the final standings but the ones from the penultimate round.
But frankly, the 3:3 draw by Ural in the last round where none of the games reached 20 moves does not require to be recorded for posterity.
I am really struck by the scant coverage of the women competing along with the men in Sochi. You have to strain to find out anything about this competition.