The Women’s World Chess Team Championship will take place from 2nd-12th March at the Duma Hotel in Astana, Kazakhstan.
The organizers of the coming event are the Chess Federation of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the FIDE World Chess Federation, with the support of Astana’s Agency for Sports and Physical Education and the Ministry of Culture and Information of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
The best teams of the world will participate in the Championship. Among them, the three teams that were ranked as the best at the World Chess Olympiad, five continental champions, the country-organizer and one team elected by the FIDE President.
Georgia - Russia
Astana will gather around 50 best chess players from ten countries: China, Russia, Ukraine, USA, India, France, Turkey, Georgia, Romania and Kazakhstan.
Every team consists of five players and the team-winner will be determined in a round-robin event after 9 games. Time control is 90 minutes per 40 moves and thirty minutes until the end of the game plus 30 seconds increment per move.
Nadezhda Kosintseva will not participate
The Chinese team won all the championships in the past. Hou Yifan and Zhao Xue are not coming to Astana and it is going to be difficult for the team to prove their dominance without its strongest players.
The Russian team, which won the Chess Olympiad last September and took three silver medals in previous Women’s World team championships, will also play without two top players, Nadezhda and Tatiana Kosintseva. The sisters refused to play for the team under the leadership of the trainer Sergei Rublevsky, citing ‘psychological incompatibility’.
Women’s World Champion Anna Ushenina will play for Ukraine and it will be her first official event since she won the title.
Women's World Champion Anna Ushenina
The top-seed of the tournament will be the Georgian team. They will play in Astana with the same line-up as in Mardin. In the last WWCTC, Georgia managed to win bronze medal.
Teams:
| 1. Georgia | FIDE ID | Full name | Rating | Avg |
| 1 | 13601903 | Dzagnidze, Nana | 2555 | |
| 2 | 13602640 | Khotenashvili, Bela | 2499 | |
| 3 | 13601458 | Javakhishvili, Lela | 2461 | |
| 4 | 13600320 | Khurtsidze, Nino | 2437 | 2488.0 |
| 5 | 13602446 | Melia, Salome | 2403 | |
| 6 | Captain | Gurieli, Nino | ||
| 2. Russia | FIDE ID | Full name | Rating | Avg |
| 1 | 4128125 | Kosteniuk Alexandra | 2495 | |
| 2 | 4167570 | Gunina Valentina | 2490 | |
| 3 | 4147855 | Pogonina Natalija | 2475 | |
| 4 | 4129752 | Galliamova Alisa | 2459 | 2479.8 |
| 5 | 4195752 | Girya Olga | 2441 | |
| 6 | Captain | Rublevsky Sergey | ||
| 3. Ukraine | FIDE ID | Full name | Rating | Avg |
| 1 | 1411091 | Ushenina, Anna | 2477 | |
| 2 | 14109336 | Lagno, Kateryna | 2547 | |
| 3 | 14114550 | Muzychuk, Mariya | 2471 | |
| 4 | 14101181 | Yanovska (Gaponenko), Inna | 2405 | 2475.0 |
| 5 | 14101513 | Zhukova, Natalia | 2471 | |
| 6 | Captain | Brodsky, Michail | ||
| 4. China | FIDE ID | Full name | Rating | Avg |
| 1 | 8603006 | Ju Wenjun | 2505 | |
| 2 | 8602689 | Huang Qian | 2478 | |
| 3 | 8603642 | Tan Zhongyi | 2466 | |
| 4 | 8604002 | Guo Qi | 2431 | 2470.0 |
| 5 | 8603162 | Shen Yang | 2415 | |
| 6 | Captain | Ye Jiangchuan | ||
| 5. USA | FIDE ID | Full name | Rating | Avg |
| 1 | 14101572 | Anna Zatonskykh | 2491 | |
| 2 | 2012782 | Irina Krush | 2460 | |
| 3 | 13301918 | Tatev Abrahamyan | 2300 | |
| 4 | 1212915 | Sabina Foisor | 2313 | 2391.0 |
| 5 | 11602252 | Viktorija Ni | 2263 | |
| 6 | Captain | Michael Khodarkovsky | ||
| 6. Romania | FIDE ID | Full name | Rating | Avg |
| 1 | 1200496 | Foisor Cristina Adela | 2389 | |
| 2 | 1201590 | Cosma Elena Luminita | 2332 | |
| 3 | 13903063 | Bulmaga Irina | 2355 | |
| 4 | 1210246 | Lami Alina | 2362 | 2359.5 |
| 5 | 1206729 | Voicu Jagodzinsky | 2281 | |
| 6 | Captain | Szabo Gergely Andras Gyula | ||
| 7. India | FIDE ID | Full name | Rating | Avg |
| 1 | 5013623 | Gomes Mary Ann | 2394 | |
| 2 | 5012600 | Karavade Eesha Sanjay | 2391 | |
| 3 | 5004330 | Mohota Nisha/H | 2327 | |
| 4 | 5029295 | Rout Padmini/H | 2307 | 2354.8 |
| 5 | 5016193 | Swaminathan Soumya | 2291 | |
| 6 | Captain | Sahu Sekhar Chandra | ||
| 8. France | FIDE ID | Full name | Rating | Avg |
| 1 | 623725 | Sophie Milliet | 2408 | |
| 2 | 13601717 | Nino Maisurasze | 2331 | |
| 3 | 2902265 | Silvia Collas | 2286 | |
| 4 | 11600209 | Anda Safranska | 2322 | 2336.8 |
| 5 | 642002 | Natacha Benmesbah | 2266 | |
| 6 | Captain | Pavel Tregubov | ||
| 9. Kazakhstan | FIDE ID | Full name | Rating | Avg |
| 1 | 13704788 | Nakhbayeva Guliskhan | 2353 | |
| 2 | 13700090 | Saduakassova Dinara | 2301 | |
| 3 | 13703595 | Davletbayeva Madina | 2272 | |
| 4 | 13702971 | Dauletova Gulmira | 2265 | 2297.8 |
| 5 | 13703544 | Abdumalik Zhansaya | 2184 | |
| 6 | Captain | Kotsur Pavel | ||
| 10. Turkey | FIDE ID | Full name | Rating | Avg |
| 1 | 6302920 | Yildiz, Betul Cemre | 2368 | |
| 2 | 6302599 | Ozturk, Kubra | 2281 | |
| 3 | 6325670 | Cemhan, Kardelen | 2025 | |
| 4 | 6300278 | Sop, Selen | 2028 | 2175.5 |
| 5 | 6306411 | Kaya, Emel | 1995 | |
| 6 | Captain | Mihalcisin, Adrian |
