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The Russian Team Championships are taking place from 1st–10th April 2010. There are three competitions: the Premier, Higher and Women's Championships. Top seed in the Premier is Economist-SGSEU-1 with Wang Yue, Eljanov, Tomashevsky, Alekseev, Ni Hua, etc., SPb Chess Fed with Ivanchuk, Svidler, Vitiugov, Movsesian, Zvjansev, etc., and ShSM-64 with Gelfand, Karjakin, Wang Hao, Caruana, etc. The teams of Yugra and Ural also bears watching, as do the defending champions Tomsk-400 with Ponomariov, Motylev, Bologan, etc.
For the Premier and Higher Leagues the rate of play is 100 minutes for 40 moves, 50 minutes for twenty move and ten minutes + 30 seconds increment for all the remaining moves. In the Women's League the time controls are 90 minutes for 40 moves and 30 minutes + 30 seconds increment for the rest. There are nine rounds in the Premier League, seven in the Higher League and seven for the Women's (according to the official site, athough there are only seven teams).
The venue is the the district of Dagomys, which is 18 km from the centre
of the city of Sochi
Dagomys-Sochi is very close to the Russian border with Georgia. It is famous for its botanical garden, tea plantations and factories, as well as for its spectacular scenery, with the snow-capped peaks of the Caucasus Mountains overlooking the gentle shores of the Black Sea. The resort has a temperate climate and boasts many sanatoria and mineral baths.
The hotel and playing venue in Dagomys
Players arriving at the hotel
A view from the top – a city covered in fog
A view of the Black Sea
Players warming up for the event by practising the fine art of stone
skipping
Players in the heated circular swimming pool of the hotel...
...which can be viewed from hundreds of miles up in this Google
Map
The temperature in Dagomys: 10° Centigrade = 50° Fahrenheit
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Higher League (four rounds)
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Women's League (five rounds)
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Individual results, standings, |
Individual results, standings, tables are available here. |
Premier League (five rounds)
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Higher League (three rounds)
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Women's League (five rounds)
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Links
A selection of games are being broadcast live on the official web site and a selection on the chess server Playchess.com. If you are not a member you can download the free PGN reader ChessBase Light, which gives you immediate access. You can also use the program to read, replay and analyse the PGN games. |
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