SHSM-64 and Ekonomist with average ELO above 2700 in the Russian Team Chess Championship 2012

SHSM-64 and Ekonomist will be with average ELO above 2700 in the Russian Team Chess Championship 2012 that starts tommorow. For SHSM-64 the players on the board will be Caruana, Hao Wang, Peter Leko, Anish Giri, Riazantsev, Grachev, Potkin, and Najer, with ELO average of 2708. Ekonomist will be represented by Morozevich, Tomashevsky, Nepomniachtchi, Moiseenko, Eljanov, Andreikin, Alekseev, and Michael Roiz with ELO average 2705.

Their main opposition comes from Tomsk-400 (led by Karjakin, ELO average 2695), SPB (led by Svidler, ELO average 2690), and Ugra (led by Shirov, ELO average 2653).

The first round of the tournament is April 9th at 15:00 local time. Games will be live here daily with analysis, expect full information, preview, and reports about the championship on Chessdom.com (in English) and Chessdom.ru (in Russian)

Full list of participants here / Live games with analysis

SHSM-64 (2708)

Caruana 2767
Wang Hao 2733
Leko 2720
Giri 2717
Riazantsev 2710
Grachev 2705
Potkin 2669
Najer 2640

Ugra (2653)

Shirov 2701
Jakovenko 2729
Malakhov 2705
Rublevsky 2686
Dreev 2698
Korobov 2679
Pridorozhny 2524
Kabanov 2502

Ekonomist (2705)

Morozevich 2765
Tomashevsky 2736
Nepomniachtchi 2718
Moiseenko 2706
Eljanov 2704
Andreikin 2689
Alekseev 2673
Roiz 2652

Politechnik (2546)

Kokarev 2637
Bocharov 2609
Smirnov 2599
Maletin 2586
Kryakvin 2566
Ovechkin 2499
Vokarev 2439
Pogromsky 2435

Tomsk-400 (2695)

Karjakin 2766
Ponomariov 2727
Bologan 2687
Motylev 2683
Areshchenko 2688
Inarkiev 2695
Khismatullin 2656
Kurnosov 2657

Navigator (2544)

Sutovsky 2700
Sasikiran 2703
Dubov 2536
Mozharov 2474
Moskalenko 2532
Demidov 2441
Mesropov 2424

SPB (2690)

Svidler 2744
Vitiugov 2709
Dominguez 2730
Movsesian 2702
Efimenko 2695
Zviagintsev 2683
Khairullin 2626
Matlakov 2632

Belorechensk (2531)

Landa 2645
Tregubov 2599
Brodsky 2558
Burmakin 2592
Poluljakhov 2505
Panarin 2523
Mayorov 2377
Beshukov 2449

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