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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
Beijing, November 6 (Xinhua) — The 7th International Team Chess Tournament among the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) countries kicked off on Wednesday in Harbin, the capital of Heilongjiang Province, northeast China. Eleven teams from nine countries, including China, Russia, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, and Mongolia, will participate in the three-day competition. Each team will consist of three men and one woman, local media reported.
Specifically, China will be represented by three teams, including grandmasters with a maximum rating of over 2600 points, such as Lu Shanglei, Li Chao, and Ma Qun. Russia will also be represented by prominent young players: Savva Vetokhin, Artem Uskov, and Anna Shukhman, all of whom won the World U16 Chess Olympiad, as well as International Master Roman Shogdzhiev. As a reminder, the Russian team won the SCO Team Tournament in 2023.
The SCO International Team Chess Tournament was established in 2019 and has been held seven times continuously, with the first five tournaments taking place in Qingdao, Shandong Province, and the last two in Harbin. The main organizers of the current competition are the Chess and Card Center of the General Administration of Sports of the People's Republic of China and the China Chess Association.
The organizers hope that such chess competitions will serve as a platform for the discovery of new models of exchange and cooperation between SCO countries in the field of sports, will promote cultural communication and mutual understanding between their participants, and thereby make an active contribution to strengthening the solidarity and progress of the SCO. -0-
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