Russian Individual Championship starts in Kazan
01.09.2005 It doesn't have Kasparov or Kramnik, but there are 66 strong players, 20 over 2600. They are gathering together in the Tatar city of Kazan for the semi-final phase of the Russian Individual Championship and a prize fund of $100,000. The seven top players proceed to the Super-Final in December. You can watch the games on the official site and on Playchess.com.
58th
Russian Individual Championship (Semi-Final)
The Russian Championship Qualifier will be staged in in Kazan from September
2nd – 12th, 2005. The event is a nine-round Swiss tournament. The first
round is on September 3rd, the last on September 11th, with the games starting
at 15:00h Moscow time (13:00h CEST, 7:00 a.m. NY). The final round begins two
hours earlier.
Time controls are 100 minutes for 40 moves, then 50 minutes for 20 moves and
10 minutes for the rest of the game. There is a 30 seconds increment after
each move, from the first move on. The prize fund is US $100,000.
Kazan is in the Republic of Tatarstan, approximately 700 km east of Moscow.
The population of Tatarstan is close to four million. of which more than 50%
are ethnic Tatar.
Downtown Kazan is divided in two by Bolaq channel and the Qaban lake
Petropavlovski Cathedra dates back to 18th century
There are 66 players in the Kazan Semi-Finals. The first seven will qualify
for the Super-Final, which is scheduled to take place from December 2nd –
16th, 2005 and will include Svidler, Morozevich, Grischuk and Dreev.
The participants
1 |
Bareev Evgeny |
2688 |
2 |
Motylev, Alexander |
2675 |
3 |
Sakaev, Konstantin |
2669 |
4 |
Timofeev, Artyom |
2661 |
5 |
Zvjaginsev, Vadim |
2659 |
6 |
Khalifman, Alexander |
2653 |
7 |
Rublevsky, Sergei |
2645 |
8 |
Smirnov, Pavel |
2635 |
9 |
Jakovenko, Dmitry |
2627 |
10 |
Tkachev, Vladislav |
2625 |
11 |
Alekseev, Evgeny |
2625 |
12 |
Volkov, Sergey |
2622 |
13 |
Filippov, Valerij |
2621 |
14 |
Kharlov, Andrei |
2619 |
15 |
Inarkiev, Ernesto |
2618 |
16 |
Kobalia, Mikhail |
2614 |
17 |
Najer, Evgeniy |
2614 |
18 |
Tregubov, Pavel V. |
2607 |
19 |
Korotylev, Alexey |
2604 |
20 |
Epishin, Vladimir |
2600 |
21 |
Riazantsev, Alexander |
2599 |
22 |
Tseshkovsky, Vitaly |
2599 |
23 |
Galkin, Alexander |
2598 |
24 |
Belov, Vladimir |
2596 |
25 |
Shariyazdanov, Andrey |
2592 |
26 |
Dvoirys, Semen I. |
2589 |
27 |
Lastin, Alexander |
2583 |
28 |
Khismatullin, Denis |
2583 |
29 |
Bocharov, Dmitry |
2574 |
30 |
Popov, Valerij |
2570 |
31 |
Sorokin, Maxim |
2567 |
32 |
Magomedov, Magaram |
2565 |
33 |
Grigoriants, Sergey |
2562 |
|
|
34 |
Yakovich, Yuri |
2560 |
35 |
Lugovoi, Aleksei |
2556 |
36 |
Tomashevsky, Evgeny |
2555 |
37 |
Vorobiov, Evgeny E. |
2552 |
38 |
Kurnosov, Igor |
2549 |
39 |
Bezgodov, Alexei |
2548 |
40 |
Kosyrev, Vladimir |
2540 |
41 |
Khairullin, Ildar |
2538 |
42 |
Yevseev, Denis |
2537 |
43 |
Savchenko, Boris |
2534 |
44 |
Novikov, Stanislav |
2534 |
45 |
Shaposhnikov, Evgeny |
2533 |
46 |
Iljushin, Alexei |
2531 |
47 |
Yemelin, Vasily |
2530 |
48 |
Loginov, Valery A |
2527 |
49 |
Vitiugov, Nikita |
2519 |
50 |
Chebotarev, Oleg |
2517 |
51 |
Kosteniuk, Alexandra |
2516 |
52 |
Yandemirov, Valeri |
2515 |
53 |
Kabanov, Nikolai |
2508 |
54 |
Iljin, Artem |
2500 |
55 |
Nevostruev, Vladimir |
2490 |
56 |
Bryzgalin, Kirill |
2480 |
57 |
Chuprov, Dmitry |
2477 |
58 |
Balashov, Yuri S |
2469 |
59 |
Gavrilov, Alexei |
2464 |
60 |
Galliamova, Alisa |
2453 |
61 |
Shabanov, Yuri |
2451 |
62 |
Grebionkin, Vladimir |
2438 |
63 |
Obolenskikh, Dmitry |
2437 |
64 |
Feoktistov, Alexey A. |
2424 |
65 |
Pokazanjev, Nikolai |
2410 |
66 |
Bragin, Alexander |
2396 |
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- Official
Web Site
This has links prepared for live coverage and games, but thes are
not active yet. A selection of games will also be broadcast on Playchess.com.
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