KPRF, ShSM and Mednyi Vsadnik Lead Race at Russian Team Championship Premier League
ShSM, Yugra, and Southern Ural are heading the women's event.
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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