The FIDE World Team Championship 2022 will take place from 19 to 26 November in Jerusalem, Israel. It will be a twelve-team championship with China, France, Netherlands, South Africa, Spain and Ukraine competing in Pool A, and Azerbaijan, India, Israel, Poland, USA and Uzbekistan competing in Pool B. The best ranked four teams of each pool will advance to the knock-out stage, where they will play Quarter-finals, Semi-Finals, and Final, with each duel consisting of two matches between the teams.
In the line-ups of the participating teams we find stars like Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Anish Giri, Teimour Radjabov, and Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, along with up-and-coming Uzbek and Indian prodigies like Javokhir Sindarov and Nihal Sarin, illustrious veterans Vassily Ivanchuk and Alexei Shirov, and the USA teenager who has been in the limelight for the last couple of months, Hans Niemann.
FIDE World Team Chess Championship 2022 – LIVE games
Teams compositions:
| ISRAEL | |
| Ilana David | Captain |
| Maxim Rodshtein | player |
| Tamir Nabaty | player |
| Avital Boruchovsky | player |
| Ilia Smirin | player |
| Evgeny Postny | player |
| Ori Kobo | player |
| POLAND | |
| Michal Bartel | Captain |
| Radoslaw Wojtaszek | player |
| Mateusz Bartel | player |
| Kacper Piorun | player |
| Bartosz Socko | player |
| Szymon Gumularz | player |
| Igor Janik | player |
| UKRAINE | |
| Yurii Gnyp | Chief of delegation |
| Oleksander Sulypa | Captain |
| Igor Kovalenko | player |
| Vasyl Ivanchuk | player |
| Andriy Volokytin | player |
| Kirill Shevchenko | player |
| Vitali Bernadskyi | player |
| Mykhaylo Oleksyenko | player |
| CHINA | |
| Wen Yang | Captain & player |
| Xu Xiangyu | player |
| Bai Jinshi | player |
| Lu Shanglei | player |
| Li Di | player |
| NETHERLANDS | |
| Jan Smeets | Captain & player |
| Anish Giri | player |
| Jorden Van Foreest | player |
| Lucas Van Foreest | player |
| Max Warmerdam | player |
| Robby Kevlishvili | player |
| FRANCE | |
| Jean-baptiste Mullon | Captain & Chief of delegation |
| Maxime Vachier-lagrave | player |
| Jules Moussard | player |
| Laurent Fressinet | player |
| Maxime Lagarde | player |
| Tigran Gharamian | player |
| INDIA | |
| Suri Vaibhab | Captain |
| Gujarathi Vidit Santosh | player |
| Sunilduth Lyna Narayanan | player |
| Sarin Nihal | player |
| Krishnan Sasikiran | player |
| Sethuraman Panayappan Sethuraman | player |
| Gupta Abhijit | player |
| SOUTH AFRICA | |
| Hendrink Petrus Du Toit | Captain & Chief of delegation |
| Kenneth Terence Solomon | player |
| Daniel John Cawdery | player |
| Daniel Barrish | player |
| Banele Fortune Mhango | player |
| UZBEKISTAN | |
| Husan Turdialiev | Chief of delegation |
| Ivan Sokolov | Captain |
| Nodirbek Yakubboev | player |
| Javokhir Sindarov | player |
| Jakhongir Vakhidov | player |
| Shamsiddin Vokhidov | player |
| Abdimalik Abdisalimov | player |
| Ortik Nigmatov | player |
| USA | |
| John Donaldson | Captain |
| Hans Niemann | player |
| Lazaro Bruzon | player |
| Alexander Onischuk | player |
| Varuzhan Akobian | player |
| Yuniesky Quesada Perez | player |
| SPAIN | |
| Javier Ochoa de Echagüen | Chief of delegation |
| David Martinez | Captain |
| Jaime Santos | player |
| David Anton | player |
| Alexei Shirov | player |
| Daniil Yuffa | player |
| Miguel Santos | player |
| AZERBAIJAN | |
| Nijat Abasov | Captain |
| Shakhriyar Mamedyarov | player |
| Teimour Radjabov | player |
| Rauf Mamedov | player |
| Aydin Suleymanli | player |
| Gadir Guseinov | player |
| Vugar Asadli | player |
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The time control will be 45 minutes for the whole game with an increment of 10 seconds per move starting from move 1. The event, organized by FIDE and the Israel Chess Federation with the support of the Israel Ministry of Sport and Culture, will be held at the Mount Scopus Hall in the Dan Hotel in Jerusalem. Former World Champion Viswanathan Anand and the seven-time French Women’s Chess Champion Almira Skripchenko will be the commentators.
