India starts as the top seed in Group B at World Teams 2022 starting today

by Shahid Ahmed - 20/11/2022

Three months after winning the Bronze medal at the 44th Chess Olympiad 2022, Indian men's team will start their FIDE World Team Championship campaign on Sunday 20th November at Jerusalem, Israel. The tournament format is same as last year's World Women Team Championship 2021. The top four teams from each group will advance to the Quarterfinals. India finished at fourth place in the previous edition in 2019, they would definitely like to better that finish this time. Team India consists of Vidit Gujrathi, Nihal Sarin, S L Narayanan, Sethuraman S P, K Sasikiran and Abhijeet Gupta. Round 1 starts today at 6:30 p.m. IST. Photo: FIDE/Mark Livshitz

FIDE World Team Chess Championship 2022 Preview

India will face Israel and Poland in Round 1 and 2 from 6:30 and 9:30 p.m. IST respectively.

Technical meeting took place yesterday | Photo: FIDE/Mark Livshitz

The tournament logo | Photo: Official site

Team India

GM Vidit Gujrathi | Photo: Lennart Ootes/FIDE

GM Nihal Sarin

GM S L Narayanan | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

GM Sethuraman S P | Photo: Shahid Ahmed

GM Abhijeet Gupta

Captain - Vaibhav Suri | Photo: Niki Riga

Team India composition

Group compositions | Photo: FIDE

Group A pairings

Round 1 on 2022/11/20 at 1500
No.	Team	Team	Res.	:	Res.
1	Netherlands	Spain		:
2	France	Ukraine		:
3	South Africa	China		:
Round 2 on 2022/11/20 at 1800
No.	Team	Team	Res.	:	Res.
1	Spain	China		:
2	Ukraine	South Africa		:
3	Netherlands	France		:
Round 3 on 2022/11/21 at 1500
No.	Team	Team	Res.	:	Res.
1	France	Spain		:
2	South Africa	Netherlands		:
3	China	Ukraine		:
Round 4 on 2022/11/21 at 1800
No.	Team	Team	Res.	:	Res.
1	Spain	Ukraine		:
2	Netherlands	China		:
3	France	South Africa		:
Round 5 on 2022/11/22 at 1500
No.	Team	Team	Res.	:	Res.
1	South Africa	Spain		:
2	China	France		:
3	Ukraine	Netherlands		:

Details

Group B pairings

Round 1 on 2022/11/20 at 1500
No.	Team	Team	Res.	:	Res.
1	India	Israel		:
2	Poland	United States		:
3	Azerbaijan	Uzbekistan		:
Round 2 on 2022/11/20 at 1800
No.	Team	Team	Res.	:	Res.
1	Israel	Uzbekistan		:
2	United States	Azerbaijan		:
3	India	Poland		:
Round 3 on 2022/11/21 at 1500
No.	Team	Team	Res.	:	Res.
1	Poland	Israel		:
2	Azerbaijan	India		:
3	Uzbekistan	United States		:
Round 4 on 2022/11/21 at 1800
No.	Team	Team	Res.	:	Res.
1	Israel	United States		:
2	India	Uzbekistan		:
3	Poland	Azerbaijan		:
Round 5 on 2022/11/22 at 1500
No.	Team	Team	Res.	:	Res.
1	Azerbaijan	Israel		:
2	Uzbekistan	Poland		:
3	United States	India		:

Details

Schedule

Pool stage: 20th November - Round 1 at 6:30 p.m. IST and Round 2 at 9:30 p.m. IST.

21st November - Round 3 at 6:30 p.m. IST and Round 4 at 9:30 p.m. IST.

22nd November - Round 5 at 6:30 p.m. IST.

The Knockout stage comprises a duel starting at 6:30 and 9:30 p.m. IST from 23rd to 25th November 2022. In case of a tie, tie-breaks will take place at 12 a.m. IST. having the time control 3 minutes + 2 seconds increment. For more details, check the tournament regulations.

World Team 2022 schedule | Photo: Official site

Time Control

The time control is 45 minutes + 10 seconds increment for the entire game

FIDE World Team Championship 2022 Pool Round 1 and 2 Live Commentary by GM Vishy Anand and IM and WGM Almira Skripchenko | Video: FIDE

World Team Chess Championship 2022 Official Commentators - GM Vishy Anand and IM and WGM Almira Skripchenko | Photo: FIDE

Links

Official site

Tournament Regulations

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