Sber is the strongest in the Big Business Cup

On Sunday, November 8, the second tournament within the framework of the XI season of the International Chess Online Business League — the Big Business Cup — was held on the Lichess online platform. The strongest teams were determined among 48 teams from companies and enterprises in the fields of transport, construction, trade, finance, law, and insurance from Russia and Belarus. The tournament’s rating favourites, the Sber team (Moscow, consisting of: Maxim Koreshchikov, Dmitry Akimov, Alexander Slepushkin), finished first with a result of 27.5 points out of 33 possible. Three points behind the winners, the second place was shared by the KDV Group teams (Tomsk, consisting of: Danil Davletkhanov, Anton Shamne, Evgeny Deev) and the EKS Group (Moscow, consisting of: Ilgis Tyukaev, Alexander Ratushnyak, Igor Ratsa). However, due to additional criteria, the Tomsk team took the silver, and the Moscow team took the bronze. In addition to the winning teams, 8 teams advanced to the final tournament of the XI season of the league: B1 Belarus (Minsk, Belarus), Departmental Security PM (Moscow), BKS Company - 2 (Novosibirsk), Department of Transport and Development of the Moscow Department of Transport and Infrastructure Development (Moscow), Department of Transport and Development of the Moscow Department of Transport and Infrastructure Development - 3 (Moscow), Trust Technologies (Kazan), KDV Group - 2 (Tomsk), KDV Group - 3 (Tomsk). The final tournament of the league will be held on December 19, also on the Lichess online platform.