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Top players at the Russian team chess championship

Ural and Tomsk favorites for the title

The Russian team chess championships start today, April 1, in Sochi, Russia.Many of the top players will participate, including the Grand Prix participants - Rajabov, Mamedyarov, Svidler, Karjakin, Kamsky, Grischuk, and Navara, as well as the Mtel Masters 2008 participants Bu Xiangzhi and Vassily Ivanchuk.

Here are the teams and their top players. Initial info was published a few days ago, here are the complete lists.

Finek - Gazprom (Sankt Peterburg)

Peter Svidler
David Navara
Vadim Zvjaginsev
Sergey Movsesjan
Nikita Vitiugov
Maxim Turov
Vassily Yemelin
Marat Makarov

Shsm (Moscow)

Alexander Onischuk
Michał Krasenkow
Karen Asrian
Ivan Popov
Sergey Grigoriants
Vladimir Potkin
Boris Savchenko
Stanislav Novikov

Economist Saratov 1

Evgeny Alekseev
Ni Hua
Pavel Eljanov
Evgeny Tomashevsky
Michael Roiz
Alexander Moiseenko
Alexander Galkin
Ildar Khairullin

Economist Saratov 2

Alexei Korneev
Sergey Dyachkov
Evgeny Shaposhnikov
Dimitry Andreikin
Alexander Kovchan
Mihail Lushenkov
Alexei Iljushin

Shatar Buryatia

Bu Xiangzhi
Vugar Gashimov
Farrukh Amonatov
Kamil Milton
Pavel Tregubov
Anton Shomoev
Boris Avrukh
Alexander Lastin

64 (Moscow)

Boris Gelfand
Sergey Rublevski
Evegeny Bareev
Pentala Harikrishna
Alexander Khalifman
Ian Nepomniachtchi
Wang Hao
Maxim Rodshtein

Tomsk 400

Alexander Morozevich
Sergey Karjakin
Dimitrii Jakovenko
Loek Van Wely
Artiom Timofeev
Andrei Kharlov
Andrei Belozerov

South Ural

Anatoly Karpov
Viktor Korchnoi
Boris Spaski
Igor Kurnosov
Evgeny Sveshnikov
Evgeny Romanov
Pavel Ponkratov
Sergei Matsenko

Politekhnik (Nizhny Tagil)

Dmitry Bocharov
Alexander Areshenko
Zahar Efimenko
Boris Grachev
Igor Lysyj
Dimitri Bocharov
Pavel Maletin
Dimitri Kokorev
Roman Ovetchkin

TPS- Saransk (Saransk)

Vassily Ivanchuk
Sergey Volkov
Andrei Volotkin
Konstantin Sakaev
Emil Sutovsky
Mikhail Kobalia
Evgeniy Najer
Valerj Popov

Ural (Ekaterininburg)

Gata Kamsky
Teimour Radjabov
Alexei Shirov
Alexander Grischuk
Vladimir Akopian
Alexei Dreev
Alexander Motylev
Vladimir Malakhov

Spasio-Swiss (Moscow)

Shakhriyar Mamedyarov
Ruslan Ponomariov
Vladislav Tkachiev
Igor Khekin
Ernesto Inakriev
Alexei Aleksandrov
Denis Khismatullin
Vladimir Kosyrev