KPRF, ShSM and Mednyi Vsadnik Lead Race at Russian Team Championship Premier League
ShSM, Yugra, and Southern Ural are heading the women's event.
The second round of the Russian Team Championships was held in the Grand Hotel Zhemchuzhina, Sochi, on 2 May.
The results in the Premier League are as follows:
M. Botvinnik School (Moscow) - Southern Ural (Chelyabinsk Oblast) 3.5-2.5
Gogolevsky, 14 (Moscow) - Mednyi Vsadnik (Saint Petersburg) 2.5-3.5
Ladya (Tatarstan) - Moscow Chess Team 1-5
KPRF Sports Club (Moscow) - SShOR ShSh (Saint Petersburg) 5.5-0.5.
KPRF (9 individual points), ShSM (8.5), and Mednyi Vsadnik (7) won the first two matches. 3 May is a rest day in the Premier League.
The results in the key matches in the women's championship are as follows:
SShOR ShSh-1 (Saint Petersburg) - Moscow Chess Team 1.5-2.5
Yugra - Moscow Oblast 3-1
M. Botvinnik School (Moscow) - Southern Ural-1 (Chelyabinsk Oblast) 0.5-3.5.
ShSM, Yugra, and Southern Ural-1 won the staring matches. Round 3 pairings: ShSM - Yugra, Southern Ural-1 - Krasnodar-Crimea, and Moscow Oblast - SShOR ShSh-1.
Five teams are leading the race in the Higher League: the Novosibirsk Oblast Team, Inleksis (Voronezh Oblast), Russian Seniors' Team, Temus Team (Moscow), and M. Botvinnik School (Moscow) have scored 4 match points each.
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Photos by Vladimir Barsky
