Day 3 of Russian Superfinals

There were no real surprises on day 3 unlike day 1 and 2 in the Russian Championship superfinals mens section.

Morozevich crushed Tomashevsky with the black pieces. The class of players like Svidler and Moro can be seen in the games after losing. They simply come back stronger. If you have ever observed other players who are not that sure of themselves in other tournaments, they lose a game, they will desparately try to draw the next. The the difference is the class !

OK and back to the results and Jakovenko beat Timofeev. The remaining games were drawn with Amonatov holding the strong Svidler.

The women's section was an all clobbering day with 6/6 results. No, draw is not considered a decent result :-). Thousands of threads on the Sofia rule, how to eliminate draws and many such.

A notable win was Matveeva's over N. Kosintseva.

The results:

Men

Tomashevsky, Evgeny - Morozevich, Alexander 0-1
Vitiugov, Nikita - Sakaev, Konstantin ½-½
Inarkiev, Ernesto - Grischuk, Alexander ½-½
Amonatov, Farrukh - Svidler, Peter ½-½
Jakovenko, Dmitry - Timofeev, Artyom 1-0
Dreev, Alexey - Rychagov, Andrey ½-½

Women

Pogonina, Natalija - Kovalevskaya, Ekaterina 1-0
Ovod, Evgenija - Shadrina, Tatiana 1-0
Matveeva, Svetlana - Kosintseva, Nadezhda 1-0
Tairova, Elena - Kosintseva, Tatiana 0-1
Gunina, Valentina - Stepovaia, Tatiana 0-1
Girya, Olga - Korbut, Ekaterina 0-1

Russian Superfinals - Women

The results of this tournament are very hard to get. But anyway, here are some highlights of the second round of the women's section.

Tatiana Kosintseva seems to have started her rampage with a win over Olga Girya. But her sister Nadezhda, lost quite unexpectedly to Elena Tairova. Tairova is no pushover herself, but she had a bad patch tournament a while ago. Its a good sign probably that it has not continued.

In other games, Shadrina beat Matveeva in a very long game lasting 84 moves and Pogonina defeated Korbut in a miniature.

Anyone volunteering to translate the official site that is Russian ?

Any idea about Kosteniuk's activities ?

Russian Superfinals Round One

The Russian superfinals got off to an explosive start with Andrey Rychagov beating fancied Peter Svidler. Rated almost 200 points below Svidler, Rychagov converted an advantage of a rook and knight endgame with an extra central pawn to win in 51 moves.

Morozevich played his usual brand of chess to completely outplay Jakovenko but could not finish smoothly. They settled for a draw in 69 moves.

There were wins by Farrukh Amonatov against Artyom Timofeev and Evgeny Tomashevsky against Nikita Vitugov (with Black) while Grishchuk drew his game against the solid Alexey Dreev.

In the women's Russian superfinals, there were four first round winners, Svetlana Matveeva won against Tatiana Stepovaia, Natalija Pogonina beat Olga Girya, Elena Tairov defeated Tatiana Shadrina and Ekaterina Korbut beat Valentina Gunina. The two Kosintseva sisters drew their match in just 9 moves.

The official site in Russian - http://russiachess.org/content/blogcategory/93/385/