Clash of the Generations

In the early 1980s, there was a curious tournament held in USSR - a "clash of generations" of sorts. It featured four national teams: the main team, the reserve team, the "veteran" team (players over 40 not involved with the main or reserve team) and junior team. The line-ups were quite fearsome:

Veteran team: Averbakh, Bagirov, Bronstein, Krogius, Smyslov, Suetin, Taimanov, Vasiukov

Reserve national team: Georgadze, Kupreichik, Kuzmin, Makarychev, Rashkovsky, Romanishin, Tseshkovsky, Vaganian.

Main national team: Balashov, Beliasvky, Geller, Karpov, Petrosian, Polugaevsky, Spassky, Tal

Junior national team: Chiburdanidze, Dolmatov, Kasparov, Kochiev, Lputian, Mikhalchishin, Psakhis, Yusupov.

And so I thought, "What if a similar "generation tournament" was held now, worldwide?" The admission rules would be pretty simple: 10 top-rated players born in each decade, from 1960s to 2000s (or half-decade for 1980s and 1990s), plus top 10 women.

Team 2000s

Team Late 1990s (1995-1999)

Team Early 1990s (1990-1994)

Team Late 1980s (1985-1989)

Team Early 1980s (1980-1984)

Team 1970s

Team 1960s+

Women's Team

Team Early 1990s, of course, looks disproportionately strong on paper (and overall, the average ratings of the teams follow a nice bell curve, which fits nicely with the previous article, Is Chess Getting Younger?), but still, I would like to see such a tournament sometime. Maybe even online at chess.com, who knows?