Sima-Land Wins FONBET Women's Russian Team Championship with 1 Round to Go
The Premier League goes into the decisive round.
Thursday, May 9, the penultimate round eight games of the FONBET Russian Team Championship were played at the Grand Hotel Zhemchuzhina in the city of Sochi. Before the game started, the participants observed a minute of silence in memory of those who had died during the Great Patriotic War.
The winner of the FONBET Women's Russian Team Championship is determined: it is the Sima-Land team. The chess players from the Sverdlovsk Oblast confidently won their match, while their closest pursuers from the ShSM team lost, after which Sima-Land was out of reach. Congratulations to the national champions!
Women's Championship – Results of the matches played by rating favourites:
Sports School Chess and Checkers-1 (St. Petersburg) – Sima-Land, 0.5:3.5
ShSM (Moscow) – Moscow Oblast, 1.5:2.5
ZhK Tatarstan – Republic of Belarus, 3:1
Kimmeria (Republic of Crimea) – Krasnodar Krai, 2.5:1.5
Standings after Round 8:
1. Sima-Land – 14 match points (24.5), 2. ShSM – 11 (22.5); 3. ZhK Tatarstan – 11 (18).
Top team pairings of Round 9:
Sima-Land – Yamal (Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug)
ZhK Tatarstan – Sports School Chess and Checkers-1
Zhemchuzhina Povolzhya (Saratov Oblast) – ShSM
Moscow Oblast – Kimmeria
In the Premier League, the intrigue continues and the champion and prize-takers will only be known on the final day.
Round 8 results:
Novosibirsk Oblast – ShSM (Moscow), 2:4
Russian Chess School (Moscow) – Temus Team (Moscow), 4:2
Moscow Oblast – Kimmeria (Republic of Crimea), 3.5:2.5
Voronezh – SK KPRF (Moscow), 1.5:4.5
Republic of Belarus – Sports School Chess and Checkers (St. Petersburg), 3.5:2.5
Tournament standings going into the final round:
1. ShSM – 15 match points (31 board points); 2. SK KPRF – 14 (33.5), 3. Russian Chess School – 13 (29.5).
Round 9 pairings are as follows:
Sports School Chess and Checkers – Novosibirsk Oblast
SK KPRF – Republic of Belarus
Kimmeria – Voronezh
Temus Team – Moscow Oblast
ShSM – Russian Chess School
Higher League:
1. Sima-Land (Sverdlovsk Oblast) – 14 (20.5); 2. Yenisei (Krasnoyarsk Krai) – 13 (23); 3. Chess Academy of Arthur Muromtsev – GB - 12 (23.5); 4. Tatarstan-1 – 12 (22); 5. Chess school of Yaroslav Prizant (Moscow Oblast) – 12 (20).
Russian Youth Championship 2010 and younger:
1. Zhansaya Abdumalik Chess Academy-1 (Kazakhstan) – 13 (21.5), 2. Youth Sports School named after M. Botvinnik (Moscow) – 13 (21.5); 3. Moscow Oblast – 11 (20), 4. Sports School Chess and Checkers (St. Petersburg) – 11 (18.5).
Russian Youth Championship among girls born in 2010 and younger:
1. SC Youth of Moscow – 16 (26), 2. Moscow Oblast – 12 (22.5); 3. KASULYA (Nizhny Novgorod Oblast) – 12 (20).
The team of the sports school "Youth of Moscow" has won the Russian championship with one round to go. Our congratulations!
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The general partner of the Russian Team Championships is FONBET. The general partner of the CFR is PhosAgro. The media partner of the tournament is a social network Odnoklassniki.
Photos by Vladimir Barsky
