SK KPRF and ShSM Lead FONBET Russian Team Championship
Moscow Chess Team is ahead in the women's event.
Friday, May 3, the Round 3 games of the FONBET Russian Team Championship finished at the Grand Hotel Zhemchuzhina in the city of Sochi.
Premier League – Results:
Moscow Oblast – Novosibirsk Oblast, 3:3
Voronezh – Russian Chess School, 1½:4½
Republic of Belarus – ShSM, 2½:3½
Sports School Chess and Checkers (St. Petersburg) – Temus Team, 4:2
KPRF Sports Club – Kimmeria (The Republic of Crimea), 5½:½
The teams of KPRF Sports Club and ShSM won all three of their first matches.
Round 4 pairings are as follows:
Novosibirsk Oblast – Kimmeria
Temus Team – SK KPRF
ShSM – Sports School Chess and Checkers (St. Petersburg)
Russian Chess School – Republic of Belarus
Moscow Oblast – Voronezh
Women's Championship – Results of matches played by rating favourites:
Kimmeria – ShSM, 0:4
ZhK Tatarstan – Krasnodar Krai, 2:2
Sima-Land – Moscow Oblast, 3:1
Sports School Chess and Checkers-1 (St. Petersburg) – Parma, 2:2
The ShSM team has become the sole leader. They won all three of their first matches. Sima-Land and ZhK Tatarstan scored 5 match points each.
Top team pairings of Round 4:
ShSM – ZhK Tatarstan
Krasnodar Krai – Sima-Land
Sports School Chess and Checkers-1 (St. Petersburg) – Kimmeria
Yamal – Zhemchuzhina Povolzhya
The Higher League has teams of Yenisei, Formula Chess, Sima-Land and Russian Chess School with 6 team points apiece.
The Russian Championship among boys born 2010 and younger has teams Youth Sports School named after. M. Botvinnik and Molniya 64 in the lead with 6 match points each.
The Russian Championship among girls born 2010 and younger has team SK Yunost Moskvy in the lead with 6 match points. Krasnodar Krai and KASULYA scored 5 match points.
Tournament on Chess-Results
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Live games
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
