The Russian Team Chess Championship takes place 1-10 May, 2016, in Sochi. The games start at 15:00 local time (14:00 CET) daily with live analysis on Chessdom.com

The competition is a 5-team double round-robin. Syberia, with Vladimir Kramnik and Alexander Grischuk are the defending champions. The main challengers are ShSM with Karjakin. The other participants are Ladiya Kazan, Mednii Vsandnik, and Zhiguli.

New: Another strongest event in history is starting this May 1st – the Top Computer Chess Championship 2016. There are 10 engines over 3100 ELO! Defending champion is Komodo, while Houdini will play with the new version 5. Find all the information here and follow the live games here

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