Russian Championship Qualifier September 3-11 Kazan, Russia : http://www.russiachess.ru/mods.php?name=section&oid=1032&bid=31&# : (Russian and English)
http://www.chesspro.ru/events/kazan05.shtml (Russian)
9 round swiss 66 players : Games start 7:00 AM except last round 5:00 AM : Live coverage on ICC, if possible
Final standings after 9 rounds : Top 7 qualified (*) listed in tiebreak order : 1- 2 6.5 *Bareev *Khalifman
3- 9 6.0 *Volkov *Rublevsky *Jakovenko *Najer : *Zvaginsev Tomashevsky Motylev : TWIC and Chess Today report Motylev advanced, not Zvjaginsev
10-15 5.5 Kobalia Bocharov Timofeev Alekseev : Korotylev Galkin :
Grischuk and Dreev qualify by placing 2 and 3 in last years : Russian Championship "finger Russia04". Kasparov won, but : has retired
Svidler and Morozevich qualify by rating. : The organizers "hold a place" for Kramnik. : Tomashevsky is first reserve.
Time: start with 100 minutes. Add 50 minutes after move 40. : Add 10 minutesd after move 60. Add 30 seconds after every move.
Map http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?country=ru&city=kazan&zoom=1 : Type "liblist Kazan05" for games.