World Team Championship pairings Print
Monday, 04 January 2010 14:06


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.

Here are the pairings for the event, the participants and full teams are available here.

Round 1

1 AZERBAIJAN - ARMENIA
2 TURKIYE - UNITED STATES
3 INDIA - GREECE
4 RUSSIA - BRAZIL
5 EGYPT - ISRAEL

 

Round 2

1 ARMENIA - ISRAEL
2 BRAZIL - EGYPT
3 GREECE - RUSSIA
4 UNITED STATES - INDIA
5 AZERBAIJAN - TURKIYE

 

Round 3

1 TURKIYE - ARMENIA
2 INDIA - AZERBAIJAN
3 RUSSIA - UNITED STATES
4 EGYPT - GREECE
5 ISRAEL - BRAZIL

 

Round 4

1 ARMENIA - BRAZIL
2 GREECE - ISRAEL
3 UNITED STATES - EGYPT
4 AZERBAIJAN - RUSSIA
5 TURKIYE - INDIA

 

Round 5

1 INDIA - ARMENIA
2 RUSSIA - TURKIYE
3 EGYPT - AZERBAIJAN
4 ISRAEL - UNITED STATES
5 BRAZIL - GREECE

 

Round 6

1 ARMENIA - GREECE
2 UNITED STATES - BRAZIL
3 AZERBAIJAN - ISRAEL
4 TURKIYE - EGYPT
5 INDIA - RUSSIA

 

Round 7

1 RUSSIA - ARMENIA
2 EGYPT - INDIA
3 ISRAEL - TURKIYE
4 BRAZIL - AZERBAIJAN
5 GREECE - UNITED STATES

 

Round 8

1 ARMENIA - UNITED STATES
2 AZERBAIJAN - GREECE
3 TURKIYE - BRAZIL
4 INDIA - ISRAEL
5 RUSSIA - EGYPT

 

Round 9

1 EGYPT - ARMENIA
2 ISRAEL - RUSSIA
3 BRAZIL - INDIA
4 GREECE - TURKIYE
5 UNITED STATES - AZERBAIJAN