The World Team Chess Championship is an international team chess event, eligible for the participation of 10 countries whose chess federations dominate their continent. It is played every two years. In chess, this tournament and the Chess Olympiads are the most important international tournaments for teams.
The strongest national teams in the world participate, and also some teams represent an entire continent. A full round is played by the teams, meaning that each team plays against every other team. At the first tournament, in 1985, teams consisted of six players; since then, teams have been reduced to four players. Reserve players are permitted.
From 1985, the championship was held every four years; since 2011, it has been held every two years. Since 2007, there has been a separate championship for women teams, which is also held every two years. Since 2007, the final scores depend on the team results; before 2007, the individual scores determined the final ranking.
All data from OlimpBase World Team Chess Championship.
Alexander GrischukDmitry JakovenkoAlexander MorozevichEvgeny TomashevskyVladimir MalakhovNikita Vitiugov
Hikaru NakamuraAlexander OnischukYuri ShulmanVaruzhan AkobianRobert HessRay Robson
Pentala HarikrishnaSurya Shekhar GangulyKrishnan SasikiranGeetha Narayanan GopalSubramanian Arun PrasadBaskaran Adhiban
Levon AronianSergei MovsesianVladimir AkopianGabriel SargissianRobert Hovhannisyan
Wang HaoWang YueLi ChaoYu YangyiDing Liren
Vassily IvanchukPavel EljanovZahar EfimenkoAlexander MoiseenkoAlexander Areshchenko
Vladimir KramnikSergey KarjakinAlexander GrischukIan NepomniachtchiNikita Vitiugov
Li ChaoDing LirenWang YueBu XiangzhiYu Yangyi
Vassily IvanchukAnton KorobovAlexander MoiseenkoYuriy KryvoruchkoAlexander Areshchenko
Ding LirenYu YangyiBu XiangzhiWei YiWen Yang
Ruslan PonomariovVassily IvanchukPavel EljanovYuriy KryvoruchkoAlexander Moiseenko
Levon AronianGabriel SargissianSergei MovsesianVladimir AkopianHrant Melkumyan
Ding LirenYu YangyiWei YiLi Chao Wen Yang
Peter SvidlerIan NepomniachtchiNikita VitiugovMaxim MatlakovVladimir Fedoseev
Radosław WojtaszekJan-Krzysztof DudaKacper PiorunMateusz BartelGrzegorz Gajewski
Sergey KarjakinIan NepomniachtchiAlexander GrischukDmitry AndreikinVladislav Artemiev
Michael AdamsLuke McShaneDavid HowellGawain JonesJon Speelman
Ding LirenYu YangyiWei YiBu XiangzhiNi Hua
Lu ShangleiXu XiangyuBai JinshiLi DiWen Yang
Nodirbek YakubboevJavokhir SindarovShamsiddin VokhidovJakhongir VakhidovOrtik Nigmatov
Jaime Santos LatasaDavid Antón GuijarroAlexei ShirovDaniil YuffaMiguel Santos Ruiz
The next edition is played in Poland in September of 2023.[2]
The table contains the men's teams ranked by the medals won at the World Team Championships.
The table contains the women's teams ranked by the medals won at the World Team Championships.