Russian Championship Semifinals Finishes, And More
Sunday, September 5, 2010 at 3:02PM
Dennis Monokroussos

The Russian Championship Higher League is a qualifier for the "Super League" later in the year. Some players are already seeded there, and five more are to come from this event. The 10th and final round finished earlier today, and Ian Nepomniachtchi took clear first with 7 points. Nine players have 6.5: Denis Khismatullin, Vadim Zvjaginsev, Vladimir Potkin, Evgeny Tomashevsky, Igor Kurnosov, Ildar Khairullin, Alexander Riazantsev, Evgeny Alekseev and Vladimir Belov. I don't know if they're going to run a playoff or if the qualifiers have already been decided based on tiebreaks - maybe a reader of Russian can figure it out from the event website?

Also, to tidy up on an event I had mentioned a week and a half or so ago, the US Senior Championship finished; GM Alex Ivanov won with 5.5/6, half a point ahead of GM Sergey Kudrin and FM Luis Barredo.

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