Italian
Team Championships
This seven-round event took place from April 27th April to May 1st in Arvier,
Italy. The nominally strongest teams in the 2012 Championship were:
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Obiettivo Risarcimento – Padova, second in 2011,
with GMs Fabiano Caruana, Hikaru Nakamura, Kiril Georgiev, Igor Efimov,
Michele Godena. Average rating: 2589.
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Scavolini-Datagest – Pesaro, the winner in 2011,
with GMs Emil Sutovsky, Sabino Brunello, Daniele Vocaturo, Mihail Marin.
Average rating: 2512.
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Chieti, with GMs Gwain Jones, Marie Sebag, plus four IMs.
Average rating: 2301.
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Libertas – Nereto, third in 2011, with one GM, Rafal
Antoniewski, plus four IMs and an FM. Average rating: 2088.
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are the full teams with round results
Final ranking (after seven rounds)
Tie Break 1: Match points (2 for wins, 1 for draws); Tie Break 2: game
points

The Italian Team Championship 2012 under way in in Arvier, Italy

Mauro Lucianaz, Lord Maior of Arvier, make the first move for the game Garcia-Palermo

Round two: Alberto David, 2604 vs Hikaru Nakamura, 2771: Black won

Second highest ranked GM Fabiano Caruana, rated 2767

Maria De Rosa, twice Italian women's champion, with GM Hikaru Nakamura

Nakamura with the owner/sponsor of Obiettivo Risarcimento

British GM Gawain Jones, rated 2635, playing board one for Chieti

Gianpietro Pagnoncelli, President of the Italian Chess Federation, with
the junior female team of Chieti
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