After all the discussions, utasok and evidence or not evidence of the participation of FIDE, as reported in its official press release, announced the composition of the whole six placed teams in average the sum of the coefficients Elo all participants. So let’s start in order: China (2717), team Europe (2687), Russia (2662), USA (2641), India (2605) and team rest of the world (2557).
Very strong look Chinese, among them two participants of the tournament-2020 – Ding Liren and Wang Hao. And another pleasant surprise. If we saw in the tournaments four-time women’s world champion HOU Yifan in the competition, only as a commentator. A few years ago, it dramatically changed the fate of knowledge grant of the University of Oxford, was interrupted career. But now Oxford on forced vacation, and here return. HOU Yifan pushed the current owner of the title Ju Wenjun to spare. The world champion does not even enter in the main part of four. It is no coincidence that team China is seeded.
as part of the European team, also two participants of the tournament-2020 – Frenchman Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Anish Giri of Niderlandov and familiar Levon Aronian, Armenia’s representative.
Perfectly playing the last time Ian Nepomniachtchi is the undisputed first number of Russian national team. Further, as part Vladislav Artemiev, Sergey Karjakin, Alexander Goryachkin, Andreikin Dmitry and Olga Girya. The captain of the Russian team Alexander Motylev.
the U.S. team on first Board one of the two leaders of the tournament of pretendentov-2020 Fabiano Caruana. And the best, perhaps, in rapid chess – Hikaru Nakamura is a threat to all players – the classics.
Owning the title of world champion Viswanathan Anand tops the list of team players of India. And its captain – Vladimir Kramnik.
the captain of the team the rest of the world became FIDE President, Arkady Dvorkovich. Among his charges 16-year-old Iranian Prodigy Alizadeh Perugia and Teimour Radjabov from Azerbaijan.
