World Team Chess Championship

World Team Championship will be held from October 31st till November 11th in Beer-Sheva, Israel.

Armenia has strong lineup, as usual. Aronian and Anastasian had great performances in recently ended Karabakh 2005 tournament. Current Asian Chess Champion Zhang Zhong is playing for China, while Cuba and Georgia are coming as very compact teams. Israel has same team as for European championship, Russia is stronger for Grischuk and Morozevich while USA are bringing 6 immigrants, again.


Team Information:

Armenia
1 Levon, Aronian GM 2724
2 Vladimir, Akopian GM 2707
3 Asrian, Karen GM 2645
4 Rafael A, Vaganian GM 2614
5 Smbat G, Lputian GM 2614
6 Ashot, Anastasian GM 2596

China
1 Bu, Xiang Zhi GM 2637
2 Liang, Chong GM 2524
3 Zhang, Zhong GM 2608
4 Zhang, Peng Xiang GM 2613
5 Zhou, Jian Chao GM 2516
6 Ni, Hua GM 2603

China Women
1 Hou, Yi Fan NA
2 Zhao, Xue NA 2473
3 Wang, Yue NA 2585
4 Gong, Qian Yun NA 2374
5 Huang, Qian NA 2398
6 Shen, Yang NA 2326

Cuba
1 Lenier, Dominguez Perez GM 2635
2 Lazaro, Bruzon Batista GM 2677
3 Neuris , Delgado Ramirez GM 2551
4 Jesus, Nogueiras Santiago GM 2547
5 Walter, Arencibia Rguez GM 2510
6 Yuniesky, Quezada Perez GM 2505

Georgia
1 Zurah, Azmaiparashvili GM 2658
2 Baadur, Jobava GM 2601
3 Giorgi, Giorgadze GM 2601
4 Levan, Pantsulaia GM 2578
5 Mchedlishvili, Mikheil GM 2564
6 Merab, Gagunashvili GM 2542

Israel
1 Boris, Gelfand GM 2717
2 Emil, Sutovsky GM 2654
3 Ilia, Smirin GM 2673
4 Boris, Avrukh GM 2653
5 Sergey, Erenburg GM 2582
6 Michael, Roiz GM 2600

Netherlands
Not Available

Russia
1 Peter, Svidler GM 2740
2 Alexander, Grischuk GM 2720
3 Alexey, Dreev GM 2694
4 Alexander, Morozevich GM 2707
5 Alexander, Motylev GM 2032
6 Evgeny, Bareev GM 2675

Ukraine
1 Vassily, Ivanchuk GM 2752
2 Ruslan, Ponomarow GM 2704
3 Andriy, Volokytin GM 2671
4 Oleksander, Moiseyenko GM 2664
5 Pavlo, Eljanov GM 2639
6 Sergey, Karjakin GM 2645

USA
1 Alexander, Goldin GM 2615
2 Alexander, Onischuk GM 2628
3 Boris, Gulko GM 2589
4 Gregory, Kaidanov GM 2614
5 Igor, Novikov GM 2589
6 Ildar, Ibragimov GM 2605