“We will beat them all” says Ramco Sponsored Indian Team ahead of World Teams Championship 2019

Team India will be gunning for what could be a historic gold medal at the World Team Chess Championship that is slated to begin 5th March in Astana, Kazakhstan. The team will be sponsored and supported by Ramco Systems.

The Indian men’s team consists of GM B Adhiban, GM Krishnan Sasikiran, GM S.P. Sethuraman, GM Aravindh Chithambaram, and GM Surya Shekhar Ganguly. The team will be accompanied by coach and non playing captain GM Srinath Narayanan.

In the men’s section, India’s main rivals are bound to be Russia and China because the other contenders have not fielded their best players. The team feels this is a golden opportunity. Srinath sounded very confident as he commented, “We as a team are motivated and looking forward to beating them all.”

Speaking about the tournament strategies, Srinath said, “Unlike Olympiad, this is a closed, round robin event. Therefore, consistency and solidity is important. A few stray wins won’t be decisive, it will be a question of who stays solid and consistent over 9 rounds.”

India will be missing the services of the top three players but the team as  whole is not perturbed. A player anonymously commented, “It is true that Anand, Hari, and Vidit are giving the tournament a miss. But this gives us a different kind of an advantage — that of being flexible without complaints. It also gives us the element of surprise.”

In the women’s section, the team consists of IM Soumya Swaminathan, IM Tania Sachdev, IM Eesha Karavade, WGM Bhakti Kulkarni, and IM Padmini Rout. The team is coached and captained by GM Swapnil Dhopade.

Starting line ups:

Open Teams
Azerbaijan
4650891	1	Naiditsch, Arkadij	GM	2732
13401653	2	Mamedov, Rauf	GM	2703
13402129	3	Safarli, Eltaj	GM	2681
13401378	4	Guseinov, Gadir	GM	2664
13402960	5	Abasov, Nijat	GM	2630
13400150	6	Sideifzade, Fikret (C)	IM	2391
Egypt
10601457	1	Amin, Bassem	GM	2710
10601619	2	Adly, Ahmed	GM	2611
10600183	3	Hesham, Abdelrahman	GM	2448
10613129	4	Fawzy, Adham	IM	2447
10600035	5	Abdelnabbi, Imed	IM	2444
4152417	6	Oleksiyenko, Mykhaylo (C)	GM	2592
England
400041	1	Adams, Michael	GM	2705
409561	2	Jones, Gawain C B	GM	2689
404853	3	McShane, Luke J	GM	2663
410608	4	Howell, David W L	GM	2689
400033	5	Speelman, Jon S	GM	2504
400289	6	Pein, Malcolm (C)	IM	2313
Russia
14109603	1	Karjakin, Sergey	GM	2753
4168119	2	Nepomniachtchi, Ian	GM	2771
4126025	3	Grischuk, Alexander	GM	2771
4158814	4	Andreikin, Dmitry	GM	2725
24101605	5	Artemiev, Vladislav	GM	2709
4121830	6	Motylev, Alexander (C)	GM	2644
India
5018471	1	Adhiban, B.	GM	2689
5004985	2	Sasikiran, Krishnan	GM	2678
5021596	3	Sethuraman, S.P.	GM	2651
5072786	4	Aravindh,Chithambaram VR.	GM	2601
5002150	5	Ganguly, Surya Shekhar	GM	2636
5018420	6	Narayanan, Srinath (C)	GM	2572
Iran
12539929	1	Maghsoodloo, Parham	GM	2666
12573981	2	Firouzja, Alireza	GM	2618
12510130	3	Idani, Pouya	GM	2604
12521213	4	Tabatabaei, M.amin	GM	2590
12500739	5	Ghaem Maghami, Ehsan	GM	2540
14400030	6	Sokolov, Ivan (C)	GM	2590
Kazakhstan
13702661	1	Jumabayev, Rinat	GM	2604
13700316	2	Kazhgaleyev, Murtas	GM	2587
13701525	3	Ismagambetov, Anuar	GM	2545
13707647	4	Makhnev, Denis	IM	2495
13700669	5	Kostenko, Petr	GM	2466
13700278	6	Kotsur, Pavel (C)	GM	2527
China
8603677	1	Ding, Liren	GM	2812
8603820	2	Yu, Yangyi	GM	2764
8601445	3	Bu, Xiangzhi	GM	2731
8601160	4	Ni, Hua	GM	2683
8603405	5	Wei, Yi	GM	2733
8600031	6	Xu, Jun (C)	GM	2487
Sweden
1710400	1	Grandelius, Nils	GM	2679
1709437	2	Blomqvist, Erik	GM	2483
1706446	3	Tikkanen, Hans	GM	2518
1707930	4	Smith, Axel	GM	2487
1711113	5	Johansson, Linus	IM	2479
United States of America
1126881	1	Swiercz, Dariusz	GM	2655
14101025	2	Onischuk, Alexander	GM	2647
2040506	3	Sevian, Samuel	GM	2642
2021285	4	Lenderman, Aleksandr	GM	2637
13601733	5	Izoria, Zviad	GM	2603
2000709	6	Donaldson, John (C)	IM	2412

Women Teams
Egypt
10609970	1	Wafa, Shrook	WGM	2152
10609962	2	Wafa, Shahenda	WGM	2171
10615873	3	Moaataz, Ayah	WIM	2033
10606700	4	Elansary, Eman	WIM	1942
10623310	5	Ehab, Tasneem	WIM	1840
10600736	6	Elgendy, Hesham (C)		2049
Hungary
12400149	1	Hoang, Thanh Trang	GM	2449
709751	2	Gara, Anita	IM	2385
717444	3	Gara, Ticia	WGM	2326
708780	4	Terbe, Julianna	WIM	2275
704814	5	Havanecz, Bianka	WIM	2283
717312	6	Antal, Gergely (C)	GM	2546
Armenia
13300210	1	Danielian, Elina	GM	2427
13300601	2	Mkrtchian, Lilit	IM	2390
13308130	3	Sargsyan, Anna M.	WFM	2337
13300270	4	Gevorgyan, Maria	WIM	2251
13300946	5	Ghukasyan, Siranush	WIM	2221
13302000	6	Andriasian, Zaven (C)	GM	2600
Georgia
13602640	1	Khotenashvili, Bela	GM	2491
13602993	2	Batsiashvili, Nino	GM	2459
13601458	3	Javakhishvili, Lela	IM	2452
13604040	4	Arabidze, Meri	IM	2387
13602446	5	Melia, Salome	IM	2385
13600052	6	Ubilava, Elizbar (C)	GM	2495
India
5008123	1	Soumya, Swaminathan	WGM	2402
5016193	2	Tania, Sachdev	IM	2400
5007844	3	Karavade, Eesha	IM	2365
5012600	4	Kulkarni Bhakti	WGM	2348
5029295	5	Padmini, Rout	IM	2315
5019184	6	Swapnil, S. Dhopade (C)	GM	2488
Ukraine
14111330	1	Muzychuk, Anna	GM	2558
14114550	2	Muzychuk, Mariya	GM	2538
14110911	3	Ushenina, Anna	GM	2443
14101181	4	Gaponenko, Inna	IM	2424
14123622	5	Buksa, Nataliya	IM	2420
14100932	6	Brodsky, Michail (C)	GM	2535
China
8603642	1	Tan, Zhongyi	GM	2502
8605114	2	Lei, Tingjie	GM	2460
8602689	3	Huang, Qian	WGM	2441
8603162	4	Shen, Yang	IM	2453
8602972	5	Ding, Yixin	WGM	2432
8600660	6	Yu, Shaoteng (C)	GM	2462
Kazakhstan
13703544	1	Abdumalik, Zhansaya	IM	2468
13700090	2	Saduakassova, Dinara	IM	2462
13704788	3	Nakhbayeva, Guliskhan	IM	2336
13702971	4	Dauletova, Gulmira	WIM	2263
13703595	5	Davletbayeva, Madina	WGM	2286
13301578	6	Pashikian, Arman (C)	GM	2616
Russia
14109336	1	Lagno, Kateryna	GM	2560
4128125	2	Kosteniuk, Alexandra	GM	2532
4167570	3	Gunina, Valentina	GM	2501
4147103	4	Goryachkina, Aleksandra	GM	2518
4195752	5	Girya, Olga	WGM	2457
4115309	6	Rublevsky, Sergei (C)	GM	2652
United States of America
13301918	1	Abrahamyan, Tatev	WGM	2377
322750	2	Nemcova, Katerina	WGM	2315
2090732	3	Yip, Carissa	FM	2279
1212915	4	Foisor, Sabina-Francesca	WGM	2276
30908132	5	Wu, Rochelle	WCM	2162
13300512	6	Khachiyan, Melikset (C)	GM	2509