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🏆 Russian Team Championship (2016)

PARTICIPANTS (sorted by highest achieved rating; click on name to see player's games) Vladimir Kramnik, Alexander Grischuk, Sergey Karjakin, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Peter Svidler, Leinier Dominguez Perez, Gata Kamsky, Dmitry Jakovenko, Evgeny Tomashevsky, Nikita Vitiugov, Vladimir Fedoseev, Maxim Matlakov, Vladimir Malakhov, Ernesto Inarkiev, Vladislav Artemiev, Xiangzhi Bu, Anton Korobov, Sanan Sjugirov, Maxim Rodshtein, Daniil Dubov, Evgeny Najer, Sergei Rublevsky, Igor Lysyj, Vadim Zvjaginsev, Alexandr Predke, Artyom Timofeev, Grigoriy Oparin, Ildar Khairullin, Ivan Popov, Dmitry Kokarev, Dmitry Bocharov, Dmitry Frolyanov, Yuri Yakovich, Michail Brodsky, Jakov Geller, Valeri Yandemirov, Ramil Hasangatin, Ramil Faizrakhmanov, Maksim Samusenko, Azat Sharafiev

Russian Team Championship (2016) The 23rd Russian Team Championship was held in Zhemchuzhina Hotel, Sochi, between May 1 and May 10, 2016. It was a 5-team double round robin with eight-man teams, six players on both sides playing in each match; teams scored two points for a match win and one point for a tie. Sibir (Novosibirsk), who had won the 2015 championship with a perfect score, returned with a strong team led by Kramnik and Grischuk; the other top teams were ShSM Legacy Square Capital (Moscow), led by Karjakin and Nepomniachtchi, and Mednyy vsadnik (St. Petersburg), with Svidler on the top board. Results ShSM Legacy Square Capital defeated Sibir 4.5-1.5 in round 2, but dropped points with 3-3 ties against Mednyy vsadnik in round 1 and Zhiguli (Samara Oblast) in round 5; Sibir remained in contention with wins in all their other early matches. After the first round robin, ShSM Legacy Square Capital and Sibir shared the lead with 6 points, with Mednyy vsadnik on 5, Zhiguli on 3 and Ladya (Tatarstan) with no points. The competition stayed close throughout the second half, with ShSM Legacy Square Capital losing 2.5-3.5 to Mednyy vsadnik in round 6 but recovering with a second win against Sibir in round 7. Mednyy vsadnik, who had lost 2.0-4.0 to Sibir in their first encounter, won the rematch in round 9 by a clear 4.5-1.5 margin, moving into a one-point lead with one round to go; they secured the championship with a 3.5-2.5 victory over Ladya in the final round, finishing with 13 points out of 16 possible. ShSM Legacy Square Capital took second place one point behind, with Sibir third on 10 points. Zhiguli, who placed fourth with 5 points, played the role of spoilers; their only point against any of the top three teams, the fifth-round 3-3 tie with ShSM Legacy Square Capital, ended up deciding the championship. SPB ShSM Sibir Zhiguli Ladya MP GP 1st Mednyy vsadnik (St. Petersburg) *** *** 3.0 3.5 2.0 4.5 3.5 4.5 5.0 3.5 13 29.5 2nd ShSM Legacy Square Capital (Moscow) 3.0 2.5 *** *** 4.5 4.0 3.0 5.0 4.5 5.0 12 31.5 3rd Sibir (Novosibirsk) 4.0 1.5 1.5 2.0 *** *** 4.0 4.5 5.0 4.5 10 27.0 4th Zhiguli (Samara Oblast) 2.5 1.5 3.0 1.0 2.0 1.5 *** *** 3.5 4.0 5 19.0 5th Ladya (Tatarstan) 1.0 2.5 1.5 1.0 1.0 1.5 2.5 2.0 *** *** 0 13.0   Team line-ups Mednyy vsadnik (St. Petersburg): Svidler (3.5/7), Dominguez (3.5/8), Vitiugov (4.0/6), Bu Xiangzhi (5.5/8), Matlakov (4.0/6), Rodshtein (3.5/6), Fedoseev (3.0/3) and Khairullin (2.5/4) ShSM Legacy Square Capital (Moscow): Karjakin, Nepomniachtchi, Inarkiev, Najer, Zvjaginsev, Dubov, Malakhov and Popov Sibir (Novosibirsk): Kramnik, Grischuk, Tomashevsky, Jakovenko, Rublevsky, Korobov, Kokarev and Bocharov Zhiguli (Samara Oblast): Sjugirov, Lysyj, Oparin, Predke, Frolyanov, Brodsky, Yakovich and Geller Ladya (Tatarstan): Kamsky, Artemiev, Timofeev, Yandemirov, Hasangatin, Sharafiev, Faizrakhmanov and Samusenko Time control 90 minutes for the first 40 moves and 30 minutes for the rest of the game, with a 30-second increment from move 1. Pairings and detailed results http://chess-results.com/tnr219768.... Previous edition Russian Team Championship (2015) Next edition Russian Team Championships (2017)  page 1 of 5; games 1-25 of 120  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. Svidler vs Nepomniachtchi ½-½ 40 2016 Russian Team Championship E60 King's Indian Defense 2. E Inarkiev vs Dominguez Perez 1-0 41 2016 Russian Team Championship D83 Grunfeld, Grunfeld Gambit 3. Vitiugov vs E Najer 1-0 54 2016 Russian Team Championship D78 Neo-Grunfeld, 6.O-O c6 4. Zvjaginsev vs X Bu ½-½ 87 2016 Russian Team Championship B25 Sicilian, Closed 5. M Matlakov vs Dubov   ½-½ 40 2016 Russian Team Championship A15 English 6. V Malakhov vs M Rodshtein   ½-½ 40 2016 Russian Team Championship B12 Caro-Kann Defense 7. Grischuk vs Kamsky ½-½ 49 2016 Russian Team Championship C63 Ruy Lopez, Schliemann Defense 8. V Artemiev vs Tomashevsky 0-1 58 2016 Russian Team Championship C50 Giuoco Piano 9. Jakovenko vs A Timofeev   ½-½ 46 2016 Russian Team Championship B81 Sicilian, Scheveningen, Keres Attack 10. R Hasangatin vs Rublevsky   0-1 55 2016 Russian Team Championship A06 Reti Opening 11. D Kokarev vs A Sharafiev   1-0 50 2016 Russian Team Championship C65 Ruy Lopez, Berlin Defense 12. R Faizrakhmanov vs D Bocharov 0-1 47 2016 Russian Team Championship E15 Queen's Indian 13. Karjakin vs Grischuk   ½-½ 40 2016 Russian Team Championship A33 English, Symmetrical 14. Tomashevsky vs Nepomniachtchi   ½-½ 35 2016 Russian Team Championship D80 Grunfeld 15. E Inarkiev vs Jakovenko 1-0 39 2016 Russian Team Championship C67 Ruy Lopez 16. Dubov vs A Korobov 1-0 41 2016 Russian Team Championship A06 Reti Opening 17. D Kokarev vs V Malakhov   ½-½ 43 2016 Russian Team Championship C67 Ruy Lopez 18. G Oparin vs Vitiugov   ½-½ 41 2016 Russian Team Championship C19 French, Winawer, Advance 19. D Frolyanov vs M Matlakov   ½-½ 41 2016 Russian Team Championship C89 Ruy Lopez, Marshall 20. X Bu vs A Predke   ½-½ 50 2016 Russian Team Championship D38 Queen's Gambit Declined, Ragozin Variation 21. Dominguez Perez vs I Lysyj 1-0 92 2016 Russian Team Championship E06 Catalan, Closed, 5.Nf3 22. Rublevsky vs Zvjaginsev   0-1 66 2016 Russian Team Championship C42 Petrov Defense 23. S Sjugirov vs Svidler 1-0 58 2016 Russian Team Championship C85 Ruy Lopez, Exchange Variation Doubly Deferred (DERLD) 24. V Fedoseev vs J Geller   1-0 43 2016 Russian Team Championship D30 Queen's Gambit Declined 25. I Lysyj vs Grischuk   ½-½ 18 2016 Russian Team Championship D84 Grunfeld, Grunfeld Gambit Accepted  page 1 of 5; games 1-25 of 120    REFINE SEARCH:   White wins (1-0) | Black wins (0-1) | Draws (1/2-1/2)   < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 2 OF 2 ·  Later Kibitzing> May-05-16    Bruce Graham: <sonia91> You are most welcome. May-06-16    Mr. V: <sonia91> Bruce Graham is right! You're on every page with info. Thanks so much! May-06-16    siggemannen: Hear hear, <Bruce Graham>! May-06-16    jphamlore: Artemiev is having a very rough event. May-06-16    Mr. V: And for once Kamsky's actually trying May-07-16    jphamlore: Very few can defeat Svidler it seems to me recently in his various forms of the non-Berlin Ruy Lopez as Black. Unfortunately at Candidates 2016 he ran into one of those players, the immortal Anand. May-07-16    WorstPlayerEver: In Soviet Russia team plays in you. May-07-16    Mr. V: wow Ian is in great form May-08-16    jphamlore: An absolutely brutal loss for Artemiev as White vs Inarkiev, apparently in mutual time pressure. May-08-16    jphamlore: It's amazing how these old lines are being rehabilitated. Kramnik's kingside fianchetto after a Berlin as Black versus Sjugirov reminds me of a favored approach of a younger Emanuel Lasker, and I suspect that approach was old when Lasker was young. May-09-16    sonia91: Both Artemiev and Jakovenko are in terrible form... May-09-16    notyetagm: <jphamlore: An absolutely brutal loss for Artemiev as White vs Inarkiev, apparently in mutual time pressure.> Artemiev blundered a terrible <KNIGHT FORK> tactic and lost a piece. May-09-16    notyetagm: <sonia91: Both Artemiev and Jakovenko are in terrible form...> Wow, you weren't kidding about Artemiev: <+0 =1 -5>, a winless -5. Russian Team Championship (2016)/Vladislav Artemiev May-09-16    not not: Kramnik, aged 40, elo 2800+ these so called "better than old masters" top chess players are lucky Kasparov is retired and Fischer is dead May-10-16    siggemannen: Actually Artemiev got in a win in the end against Lysyj, who also had a pretty bad tourney May-10-16    siggemannen: Jakovenko also got schooled May-10-16    et1: Congratulations to Peter Svidler and Co. they were really great, recovering very well from their defeat against Moscow in early stages. Well done. And what a fierce competition it was between the first 3 teams, decided by the fourth ! May-10-16    Keyser Soze: <not> Yeah, I really liked Kramnik play here. May-10-16    visayanbraindoctor: <not not> I understand what you are implying in your allegorical manner. People who automatically say that a modern master must be better than an older one just because they live in the here and now have the same kind of mentality as people who say that the actors and actresses nowadays are the best dancers ever, when they haven't seen past performances such as https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qn7... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUh... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTw... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBb... or that modern pop music must be the best because they're composed more recently, when they haven't heard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIM... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiJ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qq... The best for any genre may occur in the past, present, or future. To say that it always occurs in the here and now is false. May-10-16    Clemens Scheitz: If somebody out there is writing the book " Memorable bloopers by grandmasters" they can definitively add Yakovich vs. Malakhov to the collection. Truly hard to believe in classical time control. May-10-16    PawnSac: Kramnik is sure picking up some rating points in this team event. He just bested his own highest rating May-10-16    Sally Simpson: Hi Clem, I was looking at that one myself. Y Yakovich vs V Malakhov, 2016 It appears White resigned the moment he played 18.hxg5. click for larger view Which is good because as Black I'd be sitting there wondering what I am missing. Or lose on time wondering which is best. 18...Rxh1 or 18...Nxd3+ Nice post Vishy, the piano pieces were amazing. I know what you mean. Think chess is slightly different because today's masters have everything the olden masters did at their finger tips. They can copy exactly one of their ideas. You cannot copy that dancing or piano playing. That is gifted talent and years of practise. But on the whole I agree. The old masters have many things to teach today's players. Some of their games are timeless. May-16-16    visayanbraindoctor: Good afternoon <Sally Simpson> More or less I agree with you. Just two peculiar points. <They can copy exactly one of their ideas.> I think it's a matter of temporal serendipity. If Morphy were born in in the modern era, and Carlsen born in the 19th century, I have a strong suspicion that 19th century Carlsen would have been as strong as Morphy and 21st century Morphy as strong as Carlsen. Some of the past talents from all accounts had stunningly fantastic abilities. Morphy from numerous accounts was an astonishingly fast player, and had the ability to memorize law books cover to cover. There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that had he been born after WW2 we would see him playing chess as well as the more recent World Champions. <They can copy exactly one of their ideas. You cannot copy that dancing or piano playing.> I was thinking that both piano and chess have certain rules that limits them. There is a finite number of ways by which one can move one's pieces. Same for piano, there is a finite number of keys. A modern master can copy ideas, but creating a masterpiece like Rotlewi vs Rubinstein, 1907 takes talent and practice. Frankly, I've never seen a more beautiful tactical attack than this, and it was played in 1907. In the same vein, notice that no one has ever composed better solo piano masterpieces than the two pieces by Liszt above. It's quite possible that piano composing and playing hit a stonewall way back in the 19th century. Nowadays, people watch such stuff as dancing with the stars, and end up believing that what they see is the best there is. I admit i had the same idea, until I discovered Russian dances and old performances such as those from Astaire and the Nicholas brothers. (Links in my post above.) My jaw must have dropped. The local youth nowadays watch a lot of showbiz personalities sing, and aspire to join singing contests live on TV (like 'Got Talent' kind of thing.) They never watch operatic performances, since it's ingrained in them that it's old has-been stuff, sung be senior citizens. Same thinking that any chess from pre-WW2 must be obsolete, and for the old. It never occurs to them that opera singers when they started were once young people too. Suppose a young woman who looks like a college student enters one of the 'I've Got Talent ' contests as entry # 1 among 10 similarly youthful contestants. She delivers this kind of performance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWM... I wonder what contestant entry # 2 would do after witnessing that? Lots of films based on dancing nowadays. but can they beat the performances of the 1940s dance kings and queens of the film? Here's a more recent but still 'old' dance performance that looks hard to beat, even nowadays. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-L... They're nice lessons to those suffering from the narcissistic generation syndrome. It's always good to watch these past performances, just to give us a more objective perspective of the state of the arts nowadays. May-18-16    Clemens Scheitz: Hi <Visayanbraindoctor>, <...creating a masterpiece like Rotlewi vs. Rubinstein, 1907 takes talent and practice.> I think it takes much more than talent and practice, it requires a special gift reserved for a minority of players in each generation. Many of us possess chess talent and play very often but I sincerely doubt that we can produce that kind of "art" at the chessboard. <...notice that no one has ever compose better solo piano masterpieces than the two pieces by Liszt above.> Taste is subjective, but composers and musicians for the most part think of Liszt as a "minor" genius (a bit of a showman and a crowd pleaser, with too much flashiness and not a lot of substance in a great number of his compositions). Looking at your selections in music and dance, it seems that you like certain vivacity and exuberance in the arts. Myself, I prefer, emphatically: - The supreme architecture of Bach's keyboard music ( the Partitas , the W.T.C., the French Suites, the Goldberg variations, the Inventions). - The depth and pathos found in the best of the Beethoven's Sonatas. - Intimate and soul touching pieces like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=327... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Y6... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Il6... To exemplify how varied musical taste could be, I confess to being captivated also by otherwordly compositions like these (I wonder what you think): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Il6... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLn... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilK... May-18-16    Clemens Scheitz: Sorry, instead of the Schubert Andantino for the second time I meant to show this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHm... search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 2 OF 2 ·  Later Kibitzing> NOTE: Create an account today to post replies and access other powerful features which are available only to registered users. Becoming a member is free, anonymous, and takes less than 1 minute! If you already have a username, then simply login login under your username now to join the discussion. Please observe our posting guidelines: No obscene, racist, sexist, or profane language. No spamming, advertising, duplicate, or gibberish posts. No vitriolic or systematic personal attacks against other members. Nothing in violation of United States law. No cyberstalking or malicious posting of negative or private information (doxing/doxxing) of members. No trolling. 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