Final standing of the Italian chess team championship in Spoleto.
Pesaro (GMs Sutovski, Marin, Vocaturo, Brunello, and IMs Denis and Axel Rombaldoni) won all the matches.
1. Scavolini-Siviglia Pesaro 14 out of 14 team points and 20.5 out of 28 individual points.
2. Obiettivo Risarcimento Padova 10 and 17 (GMs Caruana, Georgiev, IMs Bellini, Collutiis, GM Efimov);
3. Libertas Nereto 9 and 15.5 (GMs Antonievsky, Kogan, IMs Shytaj, Braga, Piscopo, Bruno)
4. Vimar marostica 8 and 15
etc. (14 teams)
Women (8 teams): Chieti (wgm Martha Fierro, wgm Elena Sedina, fm Maria De Rosa, Eugenia Di Primio) won thanks to the better technical tie-break on Vitinia/Roma (Roberta Messina, Adriana Nikolova, Alessandra Sautto, Fiammetta Panella). Both finished with 11 team points out of 12 and 15.5 out of 18 individual points.
Third the team of Modena, with 3 sisters: Miriam, Ester and Sara Venturelli.
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Caruana is best.