The World Team Chess Championship is an international team chess event, eligible for the participation of 10 countries whose chess federations dominate their continent. It is played every two years. In chess, this tournament and the Chess Olympiads are the most important international tournaments for teams.
22-477: The strongest national teams in the world participate, and also some teams represent an entire continent. A full round is played by the teams, meaning that each team plays against every other team. At the first tournament, in 1985, teams consisted of six players; since then, teams have been reduced to four players. Reserve players are permitted. From 1985, the championship was held every four years; since 2011, it has been held every two years. Since 2007, there has been
44-3557: A separate championship for women teams, which is also held every two years. Since 2007, the final scores depend on the team results; before 2007, the individual scores determined the final ranking. All data from OlimpBase World Team Chess Championship . Alexander Grischuk Dmitry Jakovenko Alexander Morozevich Evgeny Tomashevsky Vladimir Malakhov Nikita Vitiugov Hikaru Nakamura Alexander Onischuk Yuri Shulman Varuzhan Akobian Robert Hess Ray Robson Pentala Harikrishna Surya Shekhar Ganguly Krishnan Sasikiran Geetha Narayanan Gopal Subramanian Arun Prasad Baskaran Adhiban Levon Aronian Sergei Movsesian Vladimir Akopian Gabriel Sargissian Robert Hovhannisyan Wang Hao Wang Yue Li Chao Yu Yangyi Ding Liren Vassily Ivanchuk Pavel Eljanov Zahar Efimenko Alexander Moiseenko Alexander Areshchenko Vladimir Kramnik Sergey Karjakin Alexander Grischuk Ian Nepomniachtchi Nikita Vitiugov Li Chao Ding Liren Wang Yue Bu Xiangzhi Yu Yangyi Vassily Ivanchuk Anton Korobov Alexander Moiseenko Yuriy Kryvoruchko Alexander Areshchenko Ding Liren Yu Yangyi Bu Xiangzhi Wei Yi Wen Yang Ruslan Ponomariov Vassily Ivanchuk Pavel Eljanov Yuriy Kryvoruchko Alexander Moiseenko Levon Aronian Gabriel Sargissian Sergei Movsesian Vladimir Akopian Hrant Melkumyan Ding Liren Yu Yangyi Wei Yi Li Chao Wen Yang Peter Svidler Ian Nepomniachtchi Nikita Vitiugov Maxim Matlakov Vladimir Fedoseev Radosław Wojtaszek Jan-Krzysztof Duda Kacper Piorun Mateusz Bartel Grzegorz Gajewski Sergey Karjakin Ian Nepomniachtchi Alexander Grischuk Dmitry Andreikin Vladislav Artemiev Michael Adams Luke McShane David Howell Gawain Jones Jon Speelman Ding Liren Yu Yangyi Wei Yi Bu Xiangzhi Ni Hua Lu Shanglei Xu Xiangyu Bai Jinshi Li Di Wen Yang Nodirbek Yakubboev Javokhir Sindarov Shamsiddin Vokhidov Jakhongir Vakhidov Ortik Nigmatov Jaime Santos Latasa David Antón Guijarro Alexei Shirov Daniil Yuffa Miguel Santos Ruiz The next edition
66-452: Is a Chinese chess player. In 2008, he became China's 25th Grandmaster . He achieved the norms required for the grandmaster title at the 2006 World Junior Chess Championship and the 2007 Asian Chess Championship . He has competed in two FIDE World Cups . In 2007 , Wen Yang was defeated ½-1½ by Zoltán Almási in the first round and as a result was eliminated from the tournament. In the 2015 edition, he knocked out Igor Kovalenko in
88-502: Is also a three-time world blitz chess champion (in 2006, 2012 and 2015). He has competed in five Candidates Tournaments: in 2007, 2011 (when he reached the final), 2013 , 2018 and 2020 . He also reached the semifinals of the 2000 FIDE World Championship. Grischuk has won two team gold medals, three team silvers, one team bronze, and one individual bronze medal at Chess Olympiads . He also holds three team gold medals, one team silver and individual gold, two silver and one bronze from
110-642: Is played in Poland in September of 2023. The table contains the men's teams ranked by the medals won at the World Team Championships. The table contains the women's teams ranked by the medals won at the World Team Championships. Alexander Grischuk Alexander Igorevich Grischuk (born October 31, 1983) is a Russian chess grandmaster . Grischuk was the Russian champion in 2009. He
132-985: The Biel MTO Open in July finished 11th with 7/10. At the Porto San Giorgio Grischuk finished 4th with 6.5/9. In November 1999, Grischuk scored 7/9 to share first place with Sergei Volkov at the Chigorin Memorial. He made four draws as reserve board at the European Team Championship held in Batumi then was knocked out of the Russian Championship in the quarterfinals by Alexei Bezgodov . Grischuk made his first Grandmaster norm in January 2000 at
154-763: The FIDE Grand Prix 2022 . In the first leg, he placed third in Pool A with a 3/6 result. In the second leg, he finished fourth in Pool A with a result of 2/6, finishing 22nd in the standings with two points. In 2006 Grischuk won the World Blitz Chess Championship in Rishon Lezion , Israel, with 10½/15. He won his second World Blitz Championship in 2012 in Astana , Kazakhstan, with 20 points out of 30 games. In October 2015, Grischuk won
176-730: The Russian Chess Championship . Later that year he won the Linares tournament on tiebreak over Vasyl Ivanchuk after being invited as replacement for Veselin Topalov , who was in the Challenger's Match against Gata Kamsky. Grischuk finished third in the 2008-10 FIDE Grand Prix , qualifying him as the first alternate for the Candidates Tournament of the 2012 World Chess Championship cycle. Upon
198-891: The World Team Chess Championship . In 1996, Grischuk finished in 21st place in the Boys Under-14 section of the World Youth Festival and tied for third place in the same section of the Disney Rapid Chess Championships. By January 1998 Grischuk had become a FIDE Master , finished 24th in the Moscow leg of the Russian Cup with 6/9, and finished 18th at Nizhnij Novgorod. He finished 44th in his first Russian Chess Championship , scoring 5/11 points, and
220-716: The Candidates Tournament, interrupted by FIDE after 7th day due to the COVID-19 pandemic . At the time of the interruption he was one point behind the leading pair made up of his compatriot Ian Nepomniachtchi and the French Grandmaster Maxime Vachier-Lagrave . From April 19 to 27 2021 Grischuk played again at the Candidates Tournament, resumed by FIDE after more than a year. He concluded in sixth place, with 7 points out of 14. Through February and March 2022, Grischuk played in
242-765: The China-Russia Chess Grandmaster Summit Match held in Jiayuguan , China. In December 2017, Grischuk won the men's Basque chess event of the IMSA Elite Mind Games in Huai'an , China. In late May 2019, Grischuk participated in the Moscow FIDE Grand Prix tournament, which is part of the qualification cycle for the 2020 World Chess Championship . The tournament was a 16-player event. Grischuk
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#1732802534015264-737: The Hotel Ubeda Open scoring 7/10 for 4th place then placed 4th at the Reykjavik Open, scoring 6.5/9. At the New York Open he finished 10th with 6.5/9. In June 2000, he won the Lausanne Young Masters, defeating Ruslan Ponomariov in the final. His success gave him his first appearance in the FIDE Top 100 at 78th, with 2606 and third top Junior in July 2000. Grischuk finished 4th on tiebreaks with 5/9 at
286-805: The North Sea Cup. Now a Grandmaster, he finished third with 6/11 at the 4th Russian Cup Final in Elista and won the Torshavn International in October on tiebreak with Ponomariov. He claimed individual bronze medal for his second reserve board result at the Chess Olympiad in Istanbul. In the 2000 FIDE World Chess Championship , Grischuk reached the semifinals, losing to Alexei Shirov . In September 2001, Grischuk scored 4/6 at
308-657: The Tashir Chess Tournament in memory of Tigran Petrosian in Moscow. This enabled him to cross the 2800 Elo rating mark. In July 2016, Grischuk won a four-game match against Ding Liren in Wenzhou , 2½–1½. In February 2017 Grischuk tied for first place with Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Shakhriyar Mamedyarov in the first event of the FIDE Grand Prix series , held in Sharjah , UAE, taking first place on tiebreak. In July 2017, he beat Yu Yangyi 3–1 in
330-707: The World Blitz Championship for the third time in Berlin with a score of 15½/21, half a point ahead of Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Vladimir Kramnik . In 2023, he won Tata Steel India Blitz open ahead of joint second place finishers Nodirbek Abdusattorov and Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu . Grischuk was formerly married to Ukrainian chess grandmaster Natalia Zhukova . He is now married to Ukrainian-Russian grandmaster Kateryna Lagno and they have three children together. Wen Yang (chess player) Wen Yang ( Chinese : 温阳 ; born 7 July 1988)
352-565: The blitz playoff by 1½–½ to advance to the final, where he faced 2009 Chess World Cup winner Boris Gelfand for the right to play Viswanathan Anand for the World Championship. After five draws, Gelfand won the final game to win the match, 3½–2½. Grischuk played in the 2013 Candidates Tournament in London from 15 March to 1 April. He finished sixth, with a score of 6½/14 (+1=11-2). In November 2014 he took first place with 5½/7 at
374-463: The inaugural Russia-Chess Summit. In January 2002, he finished second at his first Corus event with 8.5/13, half a point behind Evgeny Bareev . In the 2004 FIDE World Chess Championship he made it to the quarterfinals, where he lost 3−1 to eventual champion Rustam Kasimdzhanov . Also he shared 1st place in the traditional tournament at Poikovsky (with Sergey Rublevsky); 2nd place at the Russian Championship (behind Kasparov). Grischuk finished in
396-578: The inaugural round to reach the second, where he lost to Peter Leko . In 2018 Wen won the Chinese Chess Championship edging out Bai Jinshi on tiebreak score, after both players finished on 7½/11 points. Wen was a member of the gold medal-winning Chinese team in the World Team Chess Championship of 2017. In 2012 he played for China's second team in the Asian Team Chess Championship . In 2008 Wen Yang
418-474: The top 10 in the 2005 FIDE World Cup , qualifying him for the 2007 Candidates Tournament in May–June 2007. He won his matches against Vladimir Malakhov (+2 −0 =3) and Sergei Rublevsky (tied at +1 −1 =4, winning the rapid playoff +2 −0 =1), to advance to the eight-player 2007 FIDE World Chess Championship . In that tournament he scored 5½ out of 14, placing last in the eight-player field. In 2009, Grischuk won
440-445: The withdrawal of world No. 2 Magnus Carlsen from the candidates tournament, Grischuk was appointed to take his place. In the 2011 candidates tournament, Grischuk was seeded 6th out of eight players, and faced Levon Aronian in the first round. After splitting the four regular games 2–2, Grischuk won the rapid playoff 2½–1½ to advance to the semifinals, where he faced world No. 4 and former World Champion Vladimir Kramnik . Grischuk won
462-669: Was International Master and rating favourite when he tied for 8th place at the Boys Under 16 section of the World Youth Championships. In January 1999, Grischuk tied for 13th at the Hotel Anibal Open, defeating third seed Artashes Minasian in the third round. He started strongly at the Hotel Ubeda Open but slipped to tie for 7th place with 6.5/10. At Bled Open in March he finished 9th with 6/9 and at
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#1732802534015484-590: Was defeated by compatriot GM Ian Nepomniachtchi in rapid tiebreaks during the tournament finale. By finishing second in the tournament, Grischuk netted 7 Grand Prix points. Grischuk then reached the semi-finals at Riga, and won the Hamburg tournament, for a total of 20 Grand Prix points. He was confirmed as a qualifier for the Candidates Tournament 2020 after the second day of the Jerusalem Grand Prix. From March 16 to March 26 2020, Grischuk played
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