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The Russian Teams Championship is always guaranteed to produce super games and cutthroat contests.
The only comparable team event in terms of quality would be the German Bundesliga. That’s a round robin of 15 matches, held across a seven month period with bursts of a few rounds at a time played at different times, in different locales. The Bundesliga concluded in early May with Baden-Baden as champions for the 11 time in 12 seasons. Anand scored 3 from 4 games to help Baden-Baden. That team also includes Fabiano Caruana, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Levon Aronian.
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The only comparable team event in terms of quality would be the German Bundesliga. That’s a round robin of 15 matches, held across a seven month period with bursts of a few rounds at a time played at different times, in different locales. The Bundesliga concluded in early May with Baden-Baden as champions for the 11 time in 12 seasons. Anand scored 3 from 4 games to help Baden-Baden. That team also includes Fabiano Caruana, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Levon Aronian.
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