And the rest is playing in... Spain

While a certain tournament is taking place in Bilbao right now, many world class players have better things to do than watch the games of their colleagues online. In Palma de Mallorca, players such as Shirov, Adams, Gelfand, Ponomariov and Gashimov are playing in the Spanish Team Championship.

At the moment, the twelve best teams of Spain are competing in Palma de Mallorca, the capital of the Spanish island of Mallorca.

At stake are four places in the final weekend which will be played October 31st to November 3rd. The last four, on the other hand, will have to leave the top league.

Live games here. Below you'll find a selection of top level games played in the first two rounds, followed by some photos, the full list of teams and the results of rounds 1-2.



The Spanish Team Ch!

Van Wely - Ponomariov

Gashimov - Harikrishna

Reigning champion Linex-Magic with Shirov, Adams and Ponomariov

Photos thanks to the Spanish Chess Federation.

These are the teams. After two rounds, Cajacanarias is leading despite the fact that the first two boards are physically unable to help their team this week:

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1.1	1	IRETZA GROS		4?Ǭ? - 1?Ǭ?	6	BINISSALEM
1	GM	Gelfand, Boris	2720	1 : 0	GM	Rublevsky, Sergei	2699
2	GM	Kasimdzhanov, Rustam	2679	?Ǭ? : ?Ǭ?	GM	Mamedov, Rauf	2627
3	GM	Van Wely, Loek	2644	1 : 0	IM	Fernandez Romero, Ernesto	2455
4	GM	Bauer, Christian	2583	1 : 0	IM	Glud, Jakob Vang	2441
5	GM	Cifuentes Parada, Roberto	2529	?Ǭ? : ?Ǭ?	GM	Bellon Lopez, Juan Manuel	2425
6	IM	Argandona Riveiro, Inigo	2375	?Ǭ? : ?Ǭ?	FM	Mascaro March, Pedro	2367
1.2	2	LINEX MAGIC EXTREMADURA		3 - 3	5	ESCUELA INT. KASPAROV-MARCOTE
1	GM	Shirov, Alexei	2741	?Ǭ? : ?Ǭ?	GM	Vallejo Pons, Francisco	2650
2	GM	Adams, Michael	2735	?Ǭ? : ?Ǭ?	GM	Graf, Alexander	2621
3	GM	Ponomariov, Ruslan	2718	?Ǭ? : ?Ǭ?	GM	Gustafsson, Jan	2620
4	GM	Cheparinov, Ivan	2687	0 : 1	GM	Malakhatko, Vadim	2612
5	GM	Akopian, Vladimir	2673	1 : 0	GM	Giorgadze, Giorgi	2592
6	IM	Perez Candelario, Manuel	2537	?Ǭ? : ?Ǭ?	GM	Salgado Lopez, Ivan	2532
1.3	3	SESTAO NATURGAS ENERGIA		2 - 4	4	CAJACANARIAS
1	GM	Roiz, Michael	2680	?Ǭ? : ?Ǭ?	GM	Bareev, Evgeny	2655
2	GM	Avrukh, Boris	2656	?Ǭ? : ?Ǭ?	GM	Korneev, Oleg	2631
3	GM	Moiseenko, Alexander	2632	1 : 0	GM	Illescas Cordoba, Miguel	2603
4	GM	Spraggett, Kevin	2601	0 : 1	GM	Kuzubov, Yuriy	2578
5	GM	Romero Holmes, Alfonso	2534	0 : 1	GM	Aleksandrov, Aleksej	2574
6	GM	Gomez Esteban, Juan Mario	2503	0 : 1	GM	San Segundo Carrillo, Pablo	2560

2.1	6	BINISSALEM		1?Ǭ? - 4?Ǭ?	4	CAJACANARIAS
1	GM	Rublevsky, Sergei	2699	?Ǭ? : ?Ǭ?	GM	Bareev, Evgeny	2655
2	GM	Mamedov, Rauf	2627	1 : 0	GM	Korneev, Oleg	2631
3	IM	Fernandez Romero, Ernesto	2455	0 : 1	GM	Illescas Cordoba, Miguel	2603
4	IM	Glud, Jakob Vang	2441	0 : 1	GM	Granda Zuniga, Julio E	2599
5	GM	Bellon Lopez, Juan Manuel	2425	0 : 1	GM	Kuzubov, Yuriy	2578
6	FM	Mascaro March, Pedro	2367	0 : 1	GM	San Segundo Carrillo, Pablo	2560
2.2	5	ESCUELA INT. KASPAROV-MARCOTE		4 - 2	3	SESTAO NATURGAS ENERGIA
1	GM	Vallejo Pons, Francisco	2650	1 : 0	GM	Roiz, Michael	2680
2	GM	Graf, Alexander	2621	?Ǭ? : ?Ǭ?	GM	Avrukh, Boris	2656
3	GM	Gustafsson, Jan	2620	?Ǭ? : ?Ǭ?	GM	Moiseenko, Alexander	2632
4	GM	Malakhatko, Vadim	2612	1 : 0	GM	Spraggett, Kevin	2601
5	GM	Giorgadze, Giorgi	2592	?Ǭ? : ?Ǭ?	GM	Romero Holmes, Alfonso	2534
6	GM	Salgado Lopez, Ivan	2532	?Ǭ? : ?Ǭ?	GM	Gomez Esteban, Juan Mario	2503
2.3	1	IRETZA GROS		2 - 4	2	LINEX MAGIC
1	GM	Gelfand, Boris	2720	?Ǭ? : ?Ǭ?	GM	Shirov, Alexei	2741
2	GM	Kasimdzhanov, Rustam	2679	?Ǭ? : ?Ǭ?	GM	Adams, Michael	2735
3	GM	Van Wely, Loek	2644	?Ǭ? : ?Ǭ?	GM	Ponomariov, Ruslan	2718
4	GM	Zhang, Pengxiang	2643	0 : 1	GM	Cheparinov, Ivan	2687
5	GM	Cifuentes Parada, Roberto	2529	0 : 1	GM	Akopian, Vladimir	2673
6	IM	Argandona Riveiro, Inigo	2375	?Ǭ? : ?Ǭ?	IM	Perez Candelario, Manuel	2537

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