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Russian Olympiad Team Info by N. Pogonina

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Natalia Pogonia just posted the following on her website:

Russia (main team, men), sorted by rating:
Vladimir Kramnik (2790)
Alexander Grischuk (2760)
Sergey Karjakin (2739)
Peter Svidler (2735)
Vladimir Malakhov (2722)

Russia (main team, women), sorted by rating:
Nadezhda Kosintseva (2553)
Tatiana Kosintseva (2534)
Alexandra Kosteniuk (2519)
Natalia Pogonina (2501)
Alisa Galliamova (2487)

Russia (second team, men), sorted by rating:
Alexander Morozevich (2715)
Evgeny Tomashevsky (2708)
Nikita Vitiugov (2707)
Evgeny Alekseev (2700)
Ian Nepomniatchi (2695)

Russia (second team, women), sorted by rating:
Valentina Gunina (2457)
Anastasia Savina (2412)
Anastasia Bodnaruk (2410)
Olga Girya (2353)
Alina Kashlinskaya (2346)

Russia (“local” team, men), sorted by rating:
Dmitry Jakovenko (2725)
Sergei Rublevsky (2704)
Ernesto Inarkiev (2669)
Alexei Pridorozhni (2554)
Nikolai Kabanov (2517)

Source: http://pogonina.com

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6 Comments

  1. Anonymous Reply

    Kramnik – Grischuk – Karjakin – Svidler – Malakhov => dream team

  2. Anonymous Reply

    How come Jakovenko isn’t on the A team? He’s higher rated than Malakhov.

  3. Anonymous Reply

    I hope Russia will put the Kosintseva sisters on board 1 and 2 as their ratings are superior to Kosteniuk. I hope Kosteniuk won’t pull a prima donna stunt and demand to play on board 1. This would be a slap on the face on the 2 sisters. Chess doesn’t need prima donnas. Russia failed to win gold with Kosteniuk on board in the past few Olympiad. She was a total disaster. Let’s give Nadezhda and Tatiana a chance to show what they can do.

  4. Anonymous Reply

    Glad to see Pogonina on the team again. Good luck Natalia!

  5. Peter Zhdanov Reply

    Thanks, Anonymous 🙂

    The 3rd team is composed of local players (some of them are quite strong though, e.g. Jakovenko, Rublevsky, Inarkiev). Otherwise we would have seen other Russian top-100 players on the 3rd team, not 2500+ -level GM Kabanov and IM Pridorozhni.

    Malakhov is a great team player, very solid. That counts in such events more than 3 meager rating points.

  6. Anonymous Reply

    Peter Zhdanov :

    Can you explain how Inarkiev can be considered a “local” player : he’s born in Kyrgyzstan and lives in Kalmykia if i’m not mistaken ?

    Thank you,

    Steven

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