That Russian chess school is World's leading, is nothing but truisms. That Russian chess league is one of strongests team tournaments around seems to be obvious too. Needles to say, six out of seven recent European Club Cup winners hail from Russia.

But that its 20-year history hasn't been covered so far may be kind of unusual statement. But yes, sadly there is virtually no information on the history of Russian team championship. This is why we launch the brand new project and it starts today.

As always, it was preceded by dilligent and thorough research. A lot of details saw the sunlight for the first time, but some mysteries still remain to be solved.

Watch out Karpov, Shirov, Gelfand, Aronian, Karjakin, Nepomnyaschy, Caruana, Giri and the likes; follow the internecine battles between European Club Cup winners. Plenty of top class chess and juicy statistical section - don't miss it!

Some trivia:
Editions total - 18
Most team wins - Tomsk (4), Sankt Petersburg (3)
Most appearances - GM Rublevsky (17 - only missed one in 1994!)
Most individual titles - 4 (Dreev, Sakaev, Rublevsky, Akopian, Inarkiev, Yakovenko)
Best % (min. 50 games): GM Smirnov 51.5/73 = 70.5%

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Attention! Внимание! Dear Russian (and not only Russian) readers! Can you please help? Missing information:
- 1992 team compositions and detailed results (game file is available, but not the round numbers and team line-ups). Click to check
- 1994 confirmed results (game file is complete, but we are missing press coverage!) Click to check
- 2002 most games and individual results are missing Click to check