YEREVAN, DECEMBER 9, NOYAN TAPAN. The World Chess Team Championship will start on January 4 2010 in the city of Bursa, Turkey. National teams of Armenia, Russia, Brazil, China, Egypt, Israel, U.S., Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Greece will take part in it. Armenia's team for the fourth time will perform in this world competition. The Armenian chess players took the third place in the previous three championships. The Armenian Chess Federation has established national team's staff: Levon Aronian, Vladimir Hakobian, Gabriel Sargsian, Arman Pashikian, Tigran L. Petrosian, and Tigran Kotanjian are registered according to chessboards. Team's principal coach is Arshak Petrosian.

---