11 August 2016
Russian National Teams for Baku Olympiad Announced
The Chess Olympiad will take place on September 1-14 in Azerbaijan.
The official website of the Chess Olympiad published the lineups of the participating teams.
Russian men's team:
Vladimir Kramnik (2808)
Sergey Karjakin (2769)
Alexander Grischuk (2754)
Evgeny Tomashevsky (2731)
Ian Nepomniachtchi (2740)
Head coach and captain – RCF President, FIDE Vice-President Andrey Filatov.
Russian women's team:
Alexandra Kosteniuk (2538)
Valentina Gunina (2520)
Aleksandra Goryachkina (2475)
Natalia Pogonina (2484)
Olga Girya (2452)
Head coach and captain – Sergey Rublevsky.