Women's World Team Chess Championship 2009

From September 1 to September 12 the 2nd Women's World Team Chess Championship will take place in Ningbo, China. 10 of the best women's teams from around the world will take part in this prestigious event. Here is the list of the teams and participants:

Armenia:

Elina Danielyan

Lilit Mkrtchyan

Lilit Galoyan

Nelli Aghinyan

Siranush Andriasyan

China Team One:

Hou Yifan
Zhao Xue
Shen Yang
Ju Wenjun
Huang Qian

China Team Two:

Tan Zhongyi
Zhang Xiaowen
Wang Yu
Ding Yixin
Wang Xiaohui

Georgia:

Maia Chiburdanidze

Nana Dzagnidze

Lela Javakhisvili

Maia Lomineishvili

Reserve:

Sopiko Khukhashvili

or

Salome Melia

or

Nino Khurtsidze

India:

Harika Dronavalli

Tania Sadchev

Kruttika Nadig

Eesha Karavade

Gomes Mary Ann

Poland:

Iweta Rajlich

Jolanta Zawadzka

Joanna Majdan

Joanna Dworakowska

Karina Szczepkowska-Horowska

Russia:

Tatiana Kosintseva

Nadezhda Kosintseva

Elena Tairova

Marina Roman’ko

Reserve:

Valentina Gunina

or Ekaterina Kovalevskaya

Ukraine:

Natalia Zhukova

Anna Ushenina

Inna Gaponenko

Maria Muzychuk

Natalia Zdebskaia

USA:

Irina Krush

Anna Zatonskykh

Rusudan Goletiani

Alisa Melekhina

Reserve: Tatev Abrahamian

Vietnam:

HOANG THI BAO TRAM

PHAM LE THAO

NGUYENHOANG THI NHU Y

PHAM BICH NGOC

VO THI KIM PHUNG

This should be a very interesting event and I will make sure to let you know the results as they play out.

Posted by Alexandra Kosteniuk

Women's World Chess Champion

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