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      Home  >  Daily News • General News • Major Tournaments  >  The amazing Russian Team Championship

      The amazing Russian Team Championship

      Russian Team Championship, Sochi


      According to ChessBase, here are some stats from the 2008 Russian Team Championship:

      Try and picture an event where all of the following hold true:

      Every one of the 94 participants is a grandmaster;
      61 of these grandmasters are rated higher than 2600; 16 are 2700 or higher;
      Number 62 in the list according to playing strength is Viktor Korchnoi;
      Anatoly Karpov is number 35 on the list;
      Karpov and Korchnoi are playing in the same team.

      Here is the official website.

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      6 Comments

      1. Anonymous Reply
        April 6, 2008 at 6:45 pm

        94 participants, amazing, ranking #1 Alexander Morozevich 2774, ranking #94 Sergei Matsenko 2421.

      2. Anonymous Reply
        April 6, 2008 at 6:48 pm

        Karpov and Kortchnoi on the same team!

        I had to look at the team rosters myself to believe it.

      3. Anonymous Reply
        April 6, 2008 at 7:08 pm

        How did you figure that all are grandmasters? My buddy Lushenkov is not.

        http://www.fide.com/ratings/card.phtml?event=4162129

        So why write like that? Copying and pasting?

      4. Anonymous Reply
        April 6, 2008 at 8:21 pm

        What does the American and Hungarian team look like? I am sure Leko should be leading the Hungarian team.

      5. Anonymous Reply
        April 6, 2008 at 8:34 pm

        Wow, players from 16 nations, is this a strongest team championship in the world?

      6. Anonymous Reply
        April 6, 2008 at 10:05 pm

        thank you comrade. unless my brain is completely damaged you sent me to a site where content is Cyrillic.

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