12th Russian Chess Premier League: Sochi 2005

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Basic data

12th Russian Chess Premier League
(see all-time tournament summary)
Date: 18th - 29th April 2005
City: Sochi, Russia
Venue: Dagomys Hotel
Tournament Director: N/A
Chief Arbiter: N/A
Teams participating: 12
From 2004 premier league: top 9 teams
From 2004 first league: TPS Saransk, Ekonomist SGSEU Saratov, Yunilain Samara
Norilsky Nikel and Sankt Petersburg did not arrive and were replaced by Red October Voronezh (first not to qualify directly from 2004 first league) and Moscow Chess Federation (this team took most players from Norilsky Nikel).
Players participating: 96 (incl. 74 GMs, 16 IMs and 3 FMs)
Games played: 396
Competition format: Six board round robin.
Final order decided by: 1. Match points; 2. Game points
Time control: N/A
Website: http://www.chessliga.ru (dead)
Other websites: Report from The Guardian
Downloadable game file: 05rus.zip


Tournament review

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Best board results

1st Board
no. name flag code pts gms %
1. GM Svidler, Peter LKZN 10 65.0
2. GM Gelfand, Boris TSSM 6 10 60.0
2. GM Ivanchuk, Vasyl TPSR 6 10 60.0

2nd Board
no. name flag code pts gms %
1. GM Areschenko, Alexander LADA 10 65.0
2. GM Sutovsky, Emil TPSR 9 61.1
3. GM Zviagintsev, Vadim MSCF 6 10 60.0

3rd Board
no. name flag code pts gms %
1. GM Aronian, Levon TMSK 9 83.3
2. GM Akopian, Vladimir USVD 6 9 66.7
2. GM Efimenko, Zahar LADA 6 9 66.7

4th Board
no. name flag code pts gms %
1. GM Diachkov, Sergei EKSA 10 75.0
2. GM Timofeev, Artiom LKZN 11 68.2
3. GM Sakaev, Konstantin USVD 7 11 63.6

5th Board
no. name flag code pts gms %
1. GM Motylev, Alexander USVD 10 65.0
1. GM Smirnov, Pavel TMSK 10 65.0
3. GM Khenkin, Igor MSCF 9 61.1

6th Board
no. name flag code pts gms %
1. GM Tomashevsky, Evgeny EKSA 10 75.0
2. GM Popov, Valery TPSR 7 64.3
3. GM Inarkiev, Ernesto TMSK 6 10 60.0

1st Reserve Board
no. name flag code pts gms %
1. GM Yakovenko, Dmitry TMSK 8 10 80.0
2. GM Alexandrov, Alexei USVD 8 68.8
3. GM Grigoriants, Sergei MSCF 4 6 66.7

2nd Reserve Board
no. name flag code pts gms %
1. Lysyi, Igor PTNT 4 7 57.1
2. GM Yemelin, Vasily TPSR 4 8 50.0
3. GM Belov, Vladimir TSSM 3 8 37.5


Interesting games


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