On October 25, the 35th All-World chess Olympiad with the participation of more than 120 teams, will be started in the Slavonian city of Bled. Lists of both Russian combined teams, which now conduct the training meeting, have already conformed. Garry Kasparov will head the combined team among men, the other leading grandmasters, Peter Svidler and Alexander Khalifman from Saint-Petersburg, Muscovites Alexander Motozevich and Alexander Grischuk, Sergei Rublevsky from Kazan (trainer - the grandmaster from Ekaterinburg, Naum Rashkovsky), will play together with him. The experienced grandmasters, Ekaterina Kovalevskaya from Rostov, Svetlana Matveeva, and also the 18-year Alexandra Kosteniuk (both - Muscovites) and 16-year Russian champion among women from Arkhangelsk, Tatiana Kosintseva (trainer - grandmaster from Samara, Yury Yakovich), will play in the consist of the combined team among women, vice-president of the Russian Chess Federation, Evgeny Eletsky specially for "SE", informs.
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