Anand to captain Rest team

The world team is expected to include Michael Adams, Peter Svidler, Loek Van Wely, Etienne Bacrot and Paco Vallejo. A couple of years ago, Anand led the World team to a win over Russia in an epic match in Moscow.

The Armenian team includes world number 1 Garry Kasparov and will have members who are either Armenian or have an Armenian connection. The three Armenians in the six-member team are Vladimir Akopian, Smbat Lputian and Rafael Vaganian while others are Kasparov whose mother is Armenian, Hungarian Peter Leko whose wife is Armenian and Israeli Boris Gelfand, who was the most famous pupil of Petrosian and learnt the game from the master between 1980-83.