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Russian Championship Higher League (2007) The 60th Russian Championship Higher League tournament was a 66-player 11-round Swiss held in Krasnoyarsk, Russia, 3-14 September 2007. Rest day: September 7. Time control: 100 minutes for the first 40 moves, then 50 more minutes to move 60, then 10 more minutes to the end of the game, with 30 seconds added per move from move 1. Prize fund: 2.5 million rubles. Chief organizer: Russian Chess Federation. Chief arbiter: Alexander Khasin. No less than 11 players ended on 7/11, of which Nikita Vitiugov had the best Buchholz tiebreak score. He and the next six on the list (Rychagov, Dreev, Amonatov, Tomashevsky, Timofeev and Sakaev) went to the Russian Championship Superfinal (2007). Official site: http://ruchess.ru/championship/deta... ChessBase: https://de.chessbase.com/post/totes... ChessPro: https://chesspro.ru/_events/2007/vl... TWIC: https://theweekinchess.com/html/twi... FIDE: https://ratings.fide.com/tournament... 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Next: Russian Championship Higher League (2008)  page 1 of 15; games 1-25 of 361  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. A Kornev vs Rublevsky   ½-½ 16 2007 Russian Championship Higher League D45 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav 2. V Malakhov vs P Maletin   1-0 39 2007 Russian Championship Higher League B33 Sicilian 3. Khismatullin vs Landa   1-0 55 2007 Russian Championship Higher League E36 Nimzo-Indian, Classical 4. S Volkov vs S Novikov   0-1 62 2007 Russian Championship Higher League E92 King's Indian 5. A Shomoev vs Zvjaginsev   ½-½ 20 2007 Russian Championship Higher League C63 Ruy Lopez, Schliemann Defense 6. Tomashevsky vs Turov   ½-½ 47 2007 Russian Championship Higher League A29 English, Four Knights, Kingside Fianchetto 7. V Zakhartsov vs Bareev   ½-½ 20 2007 Russian Championship Higher League D12 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav 8. A Timofeev vs R Ovetchkin 1-0 32 2007 Russian Championship Higher League B01 Scandinavian 9. A Rychagov vs Motylev   ½-½ 19 2007 Russian Championship Higher League D12 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav 10. P Smirnov vs Chuprov   ½-½ 52 2007 Russian Championship Higher League B32 Sicilian 11. D Kryakvin vs M Kobalia   ½-½ 58 2007 Russian Championship Higher League B44 Sicilian 12. Sakaev vs D Kokarev 1-0 27 2007 Russian Championship Higher League E94 King's Indian, Orthodox 13. P Kiriakov vs E Najer   ½-½ 30 2007 Russian Championship Higher League D47 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav 14. A Korotylev vs M Panarin   1-0 42 2007 Russian Championship Higher League D18 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav, Dutch 15. I Popov vs Nepomniachtchi   ½-½ 61 2007 Russian Championship Higher League C12 French, McCutcheon 16. A Galkin vs E Romanov ½-½ 49 2007 Russian Championship Higher League C99 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Chigorin, 12...cd 17. Makarov vs Vitiugov   ½-½ 10 2007 Russian Championship Higher League D18 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav, Dutch 18. Dreev vs A Gavrilov 1-0 66 2007 Russian Championship Higher League D37 Queen's Gambit Declined 19. R Nechepurenko vs D Bocharov   ½-½ 75 2007 Russian Championship Higher League D44 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav 20. B Grachev vs N Kabanov   0-1 45 2007 Russian Championship Higher League A48 King's Indian 21. A Alavkin vs P Tregubov   ½-½ 26 2007 Russian Championship Higher League B30 Sicilian 22. F Amonatov vs S Zablotsky 1-0 37 2007 Russian Championship Higher League C41 Philidor Defense 23. S Iskusnyh vs Yakovich   ½-½ 39 2007 Russian Championship Higher League E04 Catalan, Open, 5.Nf3 24. Grigoriants vs P Anisimov   ½-½ 36 2007 Russian Championship Higher League E15 Queen's Indian 25. V Belov vs Lintchevski   ½-½ 50 2007 Russian Championship Higher League D11 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav  page 1 of 15; games 1-25 of 361    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. NOTE: Create an account today to post replies and access other powerful features which are available only to registered users. Becoming a member is free, anonymous, and takes less than 1 minute! If you already have a username, then simply login login under your username now to join the discussion. Please observe our posting guidelines: No obscene, racist, sexist, or profane language. No spamming, advertising, duplicate, or gibberish posts. 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