18th Russian Chess Premier League: Olginka 2011

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Basic data

18th Russian Chess Premier League
(see all-time tournament summary)
Date: 11th - 23rd April 2011
City: Olginka, Krasnodarsk region, Russia
Venue: N/A
Tournament Director: Mr. Evgeny Bareev (RUS)
Chief Arbiter: IA Viacheslav Namruev (RUS)
Teams participating: 12
From 2010 premier league: 7 teams (Ural Sverdlovsk, Etiud Moscow, Ekonomist SGSEU-2 did not arrive)
From 2010 higher league: Politekhnik Nizhny Tagil and Perspektiva Lipetsk (SC MEPhI Moscow and Narzan Moscow did not arrive)
Other: Atom Desnogorsk (8th in 2010 higher league), Yamal Yamalo-Nenets region and OSDYuShOR Kemerovo (brand new teams; did not participate in 2010 - it is no explained why these two were allowed to participate)
Players participating: 95 (incl. 65 GMs, 14 IMs, 7 FMs and 2 WFMs)
Games played: 396
Competition format: Six board round robin.
Final order decided by: 1. Match points; 2. Game points
Time control: 40 moves in 90 minutes, then 30 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: 11rus.zip


Tournament review

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Best board results

1st Board
no. name flag code pts gms %
1. GM Ponomariov, Ruslan TMSK 10 75.0
2. GM Yakovenko, Dmitry YUGR 9 72.2
3. GM Ivanchuk, Vasyl SPET 6 9 66.7

2nd Board
no. name flag code pts gms %
1. GM Motylev, Alexander TMSK 10 75.0
2. GM Svidler, Peter SPET 8 68.8
3. GM Shimanov, Alexander MCSP 6 10 60.0

3rd Board
no. name flag code pts gms %
1. GM Caruana, Fabiano S64M 8 10 80.0
2. GM Vitiugov, Nikita SPET 7 9 77.8
3. FM Nakhapetian, Pogos ATOM 9 72.2

4th Board
no. name flag code pts gms %
1. GM Dreev, Alexei YUGR 8 81.3
2. GM Smirnov, Pavel BLGU 8 11 72.7
3. GM Giri, Anish S64M 9 61.1

5th Board
no. name flag code pts gms %
1. GM Bologan, Viorel TMSK 9 72.2
2. GM Ionov, Sergei MCSP 8 68.8
3. GM Ovechkin, Roman PTNT 11 68.2

6th Board
no. name flag code pts gms %
1. GM Zviagintsev, Vadim SPET 7 9 77.8
2. GM Khismatullin, Denis TMSK 9 72.2
3. GM Potkin, Vladimir S64M 8 68.8

1st Reserve Board
no. name flag code pts gms %
1. GM Kurnosov, Igor TMSK 9 94.4
2. GM Roiz, Michael EKSA 5 6 83.3
3. GM Grachev, Boris S64M 6 8 75.0

2nd Reserve Board
no. name flag code pts gms %
1. GM Naer, Evgeny S64M 10 85.0
2. GM Matlakov, Maxim SPET 5 6 83.3
3. GM Ni Hua EKSA 6 75.0


Interesting games


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