| 16th Russian Chess Premier League: Sochi 2009 |
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| 16th Russian Chess Premier League (see all-time tournament summary) |
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| Date: | 4th - 10th April 2009 |
| City: | Sochi, Russia |
| Venue: | Dagomys Hotel |
| Tournament Director: | N/A |
| Chief Arbiter: | IA Igor Bolotinsky (RUS) |
| Teams participating: | 8 From 2008 premier league: top 9 teams (Spasio Moscow and Shatar Buryatia did not arrive, ShSM Moscow and «64» merged to form ShSM-64 Moscow) From 2008 higher league: Eurasia Logistics Moscow and M.Chigorin Sankt Petersburg (SDYuSShOR Kemerovo did not arrive) |
| Players participating: | 61 (incl. 52 GMs, 7 IMs and 1 FM) |
| Games played: | 168 |
| Competition format: | Six board round robin. |
| Final order decided by: | 1. Match points; 2. Game points |
| Time control: | 40 moves in 100 minutes, then 20 moves in 50 minutes then 10 minutes for the rest of the game. 30 sec. increment per move starting from move 1. |
| Website: | http://www.russiachess.org |
| Other websites: | ChessBase reports: part1, part2, part3, part4, part5 |
| Downloadable game file: | 09rus.zip |
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| no. | name | flag | code | pts | gms | % |
| 1. | GM Belov, Vladimir | |
ELMS | 4½ | 7 | 64.3 |
| 2. | GM Gelfand, Boris | |
S64M | 3 | 5 | 60.0 |
| 3. | GM Yakovenko, Dmitry | |
TMSK | 3½ | 6 | 58.3 |
| 3. | GM Svidler, Peter | |
SPET | 3½ | 6 | 58.3 |
| no. | name | flag | code | pts | gms | % |
| 1. | GM Shirov, Alexei |  |
USVD | 5 | 7 | 71.4 |
| 2. | GM Volokytin, Andriy |  |
TPSR | 4½ | 7 | 64.3 |
| 3. | GM Timofeev, Artiom | |
TMSK | 4 | 7 | 57.1 |
| no. | name | flag | code | pts | gms | % |
| 1. | GM Tomashevsky, Evgeny | |
EKSA | 4 | 6 | 66.7 |
| 2. | GM Malakhov, Vladimir | |
USVD | 4 | 7 | 57.1 |
| 2. | GM Deviatkin, Andrei | |
ELMS | 4 | 7 | 57.1 |
| no. | name | flag | code | pts | gms | % |
| 1. | GM Caruana, Fabiano |  |
S64M | 5 | 6 | 83.3 |
| 2. | GM Rublevsky, Sergei | |
USVD | 4½ | 7 | 64.3 |
| 3. | GM Tregubov, Pavel | |
TPSR | 4 | 7 | 57.1 |
| no. | name | flag | code | pts | gms | % |
| 1. | GM Grachev, Boris | |
S64M | 4 | 5 | 80.0 |
| 2. | GM Eljanov, Pavel | |
EKSA | 3½ | 5 | 70.0 |
| 3. | GM Tkachiev, Vladislav |  |
TMSK | 4 | 6 | 66.7 |
| no. | name | flag | code | pts | gms | % |
| 1. | GM Efimenko, Zahar | |
SPET | 5 | 7 | 71.4 |
| 2. | GM Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime | |
EKSA | 3½ | 5 | 70.0 |
| 3. | GM Amonatov, Farrukh |  |
TMSK | 4 | 6 | 66.7 |