FIDE World Chess Team Championship 2013 begins Nov 24 in Antalya, Turkey

Chess Blog for Daily Chess News and Trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2013

Hello everyone,

Here's an update (via Chessdom) for all chess lovers wondering what to do now once that the Anand - Carlsen World Chess Championship 2013 is over. No sweat, the FIDE World Team Chess Championship 2013 is going to take place November 24th – December 6th in Antalya, Turkey. 

Participants are Armenia, Russia, USA, Germany, Turkey, Azerbaijan, China, Ukraine, Holland, and Egypt.

The tournament is a single round robin with games played daily at 15:00 local time (14:00 CET).

Armenia

Levon Aronian
Sergei Movsesian
Vladimir Akopian
Gabriel Sargissian
Tigran L. Petrosian

Russia

Vladimir Kramnik
Alexander Grischuk
Sergey Karjakin
Ian Nepomniachtchi
Nikita Vitiugov

USA

Hikaru Nakamura
Gata Kamsky
Alexander Onischuk
Varuzhan Akobian
Ray Robson

China

Li Chao
Ding Liren
Wang Yue
Bu Xiangzhi
Yu Yangyi

Holland

Anish Giri
Loek Van Wely
Ivan Sokolov
Sergei Tiviakov
Erwin L’ami

Ukraine

Vassily Ivanchuk
Alexander Moiseenko
Alexander Areshchenko
Anton Korobov
Yuriy Kryvoruchko

Turkey

Alexander Ipatov
Dragan Solak
Baris Esen
Mustafa Yilmaz
Emre Can

Germany

Arkadij Naiditsch
Daniel Fridman
Georg Meier
David Baramidze
Igor Khenkin

Azerbaijan

Eltaj Safarli
Rauf Mamedov
Gadir Guseinov
Nidjat Mamedov
Vasif Durarbayli

Egypt

Ibrahim Hasan Labib

Samy Shoker
Khaled Abdel Razik
Amin Bassem
Mohamed Ezat

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