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Sunday, 24 June 2012

Venue: St. Petersburg, Russia
Dates: July 1st - 9th
Format: classical chess (each member of the team gets to play all the members of the opposing team once) + rapid (two games against each member of the opposing team)
Scoring system: each game is worth 1 point; the team with the highest combined score (women+men) will be declared a winner
Prize fund: each men's team gets $15,000 (non-taxable); each women's team - $10,000 (non-taxable)

The teams:

Team Russia (Men)

Player	Year of Birth	FIDE Rating	National Rank	World Rank
Evgeny Tomashevsky	1987	2738	6	15
Dmitry Jakovenko	1983	2736	7	18
Ian Nepomniatchi	1990	2716	8	29
Nikita Vitiugov	1987	2703	12	42
Maxim Matlakov	1991	2668	21	85

Team China (Men)

Player	Year of Birth	FIDE Rating	National Rank	World Rank
Wang Hao	1989	2738	1	16
Li Chao	1989	2703	2	44
Wang Yue	1987	2690	3	60
Ding Liren	1992	2679	4	70
Yu Yangui	1994	2626	7	147

Team Russia (Women)

Player	Year of Birth	FIDE Rating	National Rank	World Rank
Valentina Gunina	1989	2530	2	9
Alexandra Kosteniuk	1984	2457	5	29
Natalia Pogonina	1985	2447	6	38
Olga Girya	1991	2414	10	56
Baira Kovanova	1987	2391	14	68

Team China (Women)

Player	Year of Birth	FIDE Rating	National Rank	World Rank
Zhao Xue	1985	2549	2	5
Ju Wenjun	1991	2529	3	10
Shen Yang	1989	2419	7	49
Huang Qian	1986	2417	8	51
Ding Yixin	1991	2353	14	115

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