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Russian Team Championship and Leagues in Dagomys
06.04.2009 – The world financial crisis has led to a reduction of the teams, but still there are plenty of high-calibre players to get excited about. The Premier League has the “crème de la crème”, the Higher League is also full of strong GMs, and the Women's League features some of the strongest player in the world. We bring you an extraordinary photo report by WGM Irina Sudakova and Elena Mikheeva. |
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Tomsk-400 leads in Russian Team Championship
08.04.2009 – After four rounds in the Premiere League the team of Tomsk-400 with Jakovenko, Timofeev, Inarkiev, Tiviakov and others is in the lead, followed by ShSM-64 and Ecomomist SGSEU-1. In the Women's tournament Spartak leads after five rounds with four wins and a draw, and in the Higher League it is Polytechnik and Yugra with 10/12 points. Video and photo report from Dagomys. |
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Spartak wins Russian Women's League – narrowly
10.04.2009 – The women's section is over. Spartak, which had been coasting, suffered a big setback by losing in the final round. Their main rival AVS drew their match, leaving both teams tied for first. But Spartak had 18 board points to AVS's 17 and so took gold. IM Tatiana Kosintseva scored 6.0/7 on board two with an incredible 2750 performance. Pictures and statistics. |
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Arboretum and Dolphinarium – something fishy in Sochi
11.04.2009 – The Russian Team Championships were exciting and yielded five big reports, mainly with portraits of chess players. But the southern city of Dagomys is not just about chess. On the free days players and journalists were able to visit the world famous Arboretum and a Doplhinarium that features painting Beluga whales. Irina Sudakova and Elena Mikheeva sent us this beautiful pictorial report. |
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Tomsk-400 wins the Russian Premier League
11.04.2009 – This team won the highest Russian Team Championship in 2007, but did badly last year. Now they are back with a convincing two-point victory, with ShSm-64 and Ural taking silver and bronze behind them. The second-level "Higher League" was won by Polytechnik, ahead of Economist-SGSEU-2 and Yugra. We bring you a closing report of the tournament with portraits of the players. |
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Big pictorial: Après Chess in Dagomys
16.04.2009 – For the third time we bring you a "final report" on the Russian Team Championship and Leagues in Dagomys-Sochi, southern Russian. It features pictures taken mainly after the end of the event – prize giving and medal distribution, the closing party. There are a number of faces you probably have not seen before. Here's a megabyte and a half of pictures by Irina Sudakova and Elena Mikheeva. |
