8 April 2015

Grischuk leads the Russian team at the World Team championship

The event begins on April 18.

Alexander Grischuk
Alexander Grischuk
The World Team Championship takes place on April 18-28 is Tsaghkadzor, Armenia. The lineups of the participating teams are published on the official site.  

Team Russia:

Alexander Grischuk (2794)
Sergey Karjakin (2757)
Evgeny Tomashevsky (2745)
Dmitry Jakovenko (2744)
Nikita Vitiugov (2736)

The other teams playing in the event are Ukraine, Armenia, China, Israel, Hungary, Cuba, India, USA, and Egypt.

Russia is the current World Champion. Our team won the title in 2013 in Turkey.