The 2009 World Team Championship will take place 5th-14th January in Bursa, Turkey. The Federations qualified to participate in the Championship are Continental Champions - Russia, Brazil, India (replacing China) and Egypt, top three teams from the 2008 Chess Olympiad - Armenia, Israel and USA, two teams invited by the FIDE President's approval - Azerbaijan and Greece, and the host Turkey.
The World Team Championship is a round robin event with time control 90 min/40 moves +30 min/end, with 30 seconds additional time per move, starting from move one.
Official site: wtcc2009.tsf.org.tr
Armenia
Levon Aronian 2786 Vladimir Akopian 2700 Gabriel Sargissian 2676 Arman Pashikian 2656 Tigran Petrosian 2615 Tigran Kotanjian 2542
Israel
Boris Gelfand 2758 Michael Roiz 2659 Ilia Smirin 2662 Emil Sutovsky 2666 Evgeny Postny 2650 Maxim Rodhstein 2650
USA
Hikaru Nakamura 2715 Alexander Onischuk 2672 Yuri Shulman 2623 Varuzhan Akobian 2624 Robert L. Hess 2572 Ray Robson 2567
Russia
Alexander Morozevich 2750 Alexander Grischuk 2736 Vladimir Malakhov 2706 Dmitry Jakovenko 2736 Evgeny Tomashevsky 2708 Nikita Vityugov 2694
Brazil
Giovanni Vescovi 2648 Rafael Leitao 2621 Alexandr Fier 2653 Gilberto Milos 2603 Andre Diamant 2493 Darcy Lima 2504
Egypt
Ahmed Adly 2583 Bassem Amin 2553 Mohamed Ezat 2472 Khaled Abdel Razik 2469 Imed Abdelnabbi 2447 Walaa Sarwat 2405
Azerbaijan
Vugar Gashimov 2758 Teimour Radjabov 2748 Shakhriyar Mamedyarov 2719 Rauf Mamedov 2634 Gadir Guseinov 2625 Nidjat Mamedov 2617
Greece
Vassilios Kotronias 2599 Ioannis Papaioannou 2628 Hristos Banikas 2615 Stelios Halkias 2573 Dimitrios Mastrovasilis 2569 Athanasios Mastrovasilis 2513
Turkey
Kivanc Haznedaroglu 2497 Mert Erdogdu 2489 Mustafa Yilmaz 2468 Emre Can 2449 Baris Esen 2493 Burak Firat 2392
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