Russian Championship Higher League (2007)

PARTICIPANTS (sorted by highest achieved rating; click on name to see player's games) Evgeny Tomashevsky, Evgeny Bareev, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Nikita Vitiugov, Vladimir Malakhov, Evgeny Najer, Alexey Dreev, Alexander Motylev, Boris Grachev, Sergei Rublevsky, Sergey Volkov, Vadim Zvjaginsev, Vladimir Potkin, Artyom Timofeev, Mikhail Kobalia, Konstantin Landa, Igor Kurnosov, Konstantin Sakaev, Denis Khismatullin, Maxim Turov, Ildar Khairullin, Alexander Lastin, Pavel Tregubov, Igor Lysyj, Boris Savchenko, Farrukh Amonatov, Dmitry Kokarev, Dmitry Bocharov, Vladimir Belov, Evgeny Romanov, Pavel Smirnov, Pavel Maletin, Ivan Popov, Alexander Galkin, Evgeny E Vorobiov, Alexey Korotylev, Viacheslav Zakhartsov, Dmitry Kryakvin, Petr Kiriakov, Yuri Yakovich, Dmitry Chuprov, Valerij Popov, Sergey Grigoriants, Andrey Rychagov, Alexei Kornev, Anton Shomoev, Daniil Lintchevski, Stanislav Novikov, Mikhail Panarin, Roman Ovetchkin, Sergei Zablotsky, Roman Nechepurenko, Pavel Anisimov, Marat Makarov, Nikolai Kabanov, Sergei Iskusnyh, Alexei Gavrilov, Arseny Alavkin, Alexandr Voinov, Gennadij Kiselev, Anatoly Sidorov, Denis Petrukhin, Alexey Kostin, Konstantin Keosidi, Lev Pevzner, Anatoly M Kremenietsky

page 1 of 15; games 1-25 of 358  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. A Kremenietsky vs I Khairullin   ½-½ 22 2007 Russian Championship Higher League B50 Sicilian 2. Dreev vs A Gavrilov 1-0 66 2007 Russian Championship Higher League D37 Queen's Gambit Declined 3. R Nechepurenko vs D Bocharov   ½-½ 75 2007 Russian Championship Higher League D43 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav 4. B Grachev vs N Kabanov   0-1 45 2007 Russian Championship Higher League A48 King's Indian 5. A Alavkin vs P Tregubov   ½-½ 26 2007 Russian Championship Higher League B30 Sicilian 6. F Amonatov vs S Zablotsky 1-0 37 2007 Russian Championship Higher League C41 Philidor Defense 7. S Iskusnyh vs Y Yakovich   ½-½ 39 2007 Russian Championship Higher League E04 Catalan, Open, 5.Nf3 8. Grigoriants vs P Anisimov   ½-½ 36 2007 Russian Championship Higher League E15 Queen's Indian 9. V Belov vs D Lintchevski   ½-½ 50 2007 Russian Championship Higher League D11 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav 10. A Sidorov vs A Lastin   ½-½ 40 2007 Russian Championship Higher League D45 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav 11. I Kurnosov vs G Kiselev   ½-½ 30 2007 Russian Championship Higher League C58 Two Knights 12. A Kostin vs I Lysyj   ½-½ 44 2007 Russian Championship Higher League C01 French, Exchange 13. V Popov vs A Voinov   ½-½ 23 2007 Russian Championship Higher League D10 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav 14. D Petrukhin vs B Savchenko   ½-½ 47 2007 Russian Championship Higher League B00 Uncommon King's Pawn Opening 15. E Vorobiov vs L Pevzner   1-0 40 2007 Russian Championship Higher League D15 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav 16. M Makarov vs N Vitiugov   ½-½ 10 2007 Russian Championship Higher League D19 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav, Dutch 17. A Galkin vs E Romanov   ½-½ 49 2007 Russian Championship Higher League C99 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Chigorin, 12...cd 18. A Kornev vs Rublevsky   ½-½ 16 2007 Russian Championship Higher League D45 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav 19. V Malakhov vs P Maletin   1-0 39 2007 Russian Championship Higher League B33 Sicilian 20. D Khismatullin vs K Landa   1-0 55 2007 Russian Championship Higher League E36 Nimzo-Indian, Classical 21. S Volkov vs S Novikov   0-1 62 2007 Russian Championship Higher League E94 King's Indian, Orthodox 22. A Shomoev vs V Zvjaginsev   ½-½ 20 2007 Russian Championship Higher League C63 Ruy Lopez, Schliemann Defense 23. E Tomashevsky vs M Turov   ½-½ 47 2007 Russian Championship Higher League A29 English, Four Knights, Kingside Fianchetto 24. V Zakhartsov vs Bareev   ½-½ 20 2007 Russian Championship Higher League D12 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav 25. A Timofeev vs R Ovetchkin 1-0 32 2007 Russian Championship Higher League B01 Scandinavian  page 1 of 15; games 1-25 of 358    REFINE SEARCH:   White wins (1-0) | Black wins (0-1) | Draws (1/2-1/2)

Sep-06-07    chessgames.com: The 60th Championship of Russia ("Higher League") takes place in Krasnoyarsk 3rd-11th September 2007 Official site: http://russiachess.org/ These games are broadcast live at this page: http://russiachess.org/online/ Sep-06-07    malthrope: Good move CG.com! Round #4 is now underway and the games started at 3 AM EDT (just over one hour ago). ;-) Sep-06-07    percyblakeney: No wins for Rublevsky yet, today he lost with white against Zakhartsov (2559). Sep-08-07    percyblakeney: Top boards in round 5: Dreev-Timofeev ½-½ (13 moves) Vitiugov-Najer 1-0 Korotylev-Amonatov ½-½ (9 moves) Khismatullin-Zvjaginsev 0-1 Sep-08-07    Karpova: Bareev won against Lastin and Rublevsky scored against Voinov Sep-08-07    percyblakeney: Apart from board 1 and 3 a hard-fought round, and most of the games on the top 15 boards were decisive. Sep-09-07    queener: After the 5th round, Vitiugov and Dreev lead with 4.0, while Malakhov, Bareev and some other GMs trail by half a point. http://russiachess.org/content/view... Sep-10-07    percyblakeney: Zvjaginsev's more than a year long unbeaten sequence was ended today by Rychagov. The other six top boards were drawn. Sep-10-07    DCP23: <percyblakeney: No wins for Rublevsky yet, today he lost with white against Zakhartsov (2559).> Looks like Rublevsky heard your critique, because he won 3 in a row right after that. Sep-11-07    Troller: Two of the biggest favourites are playing now in Drejev-Rublevskij. Play has ground to a halt after 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c5 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Qb3 dc4 5.Qc4 Bg4 6.Bf4 Nbd7 7.Nbd2 e6 8.e3 Be7 9.Ne5: click for larger view I like Bareev's position as black against Amonatov, position after 22..Ndf6: click for larger view But maybe that's just because I play the Caro-Kann myself. Sep-11-07    Troller: OK, so Drejev-Rublevskij took a long time since they drew at move 9. Wow. Sakaev seems to have an edge against Malakhov. Grigoriants as white has an isolani on the d-file against Motylev compensated by some activity, but black looks better imo. Kobalia-Khismatullin is highly interesting after 12..e5: click for larger view Sep-11-07    percyblakeney: Zvjaginsev wants revenge today and has a promising position against Grachev after playing 19. Nc5: click for larger view Sep-11-07    Karpova: Nepomnyashiy-Makarov after 22...Bd8 click for larger view Sep-11-07    Karpova: Nepomnyashiy-Makarov after 33...Bg7 click for larger view Zvjaginsev-Grachev 1-0 after 32 moves. Sep-14-07    percyblakeney: In the last round Zvjaginsev quickly sacrificed a knight and won, ending up as one of eleven players that shared first with 7/11. Sep-14-07    percyblakeney: Zvjaginsev chose a line where the Opening Explorer had 9 black wins and 1 draw in 10 games after black's fifth move. Here comes the knight sacrifice with 11. d4 (and after 30 moves Chuprov resigned): click for larger view Sep-14-07    tal lover: <percyblakeney> i think that this line is actually a blunder, and Zvjaginsev was caught in the opening but outplayed his oponent in the middle game Sep-16-07    notyetagm: <percyblakeney: In the last round Zvjaginsev quickly sacrificed a knight and won, ending up as one of eleven players that shared first with 7/11.> Clutch win by the Z-man, and in excellent style no less.

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