Magnus Carlsen to play in Kolkata next month; Tata Steel Chess India to also see Arjun Erigaisi, Praggnanandhaa, Vidit Gujrathi

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GCL) Magnus Carlsen takes connected Viswanathan Anand successful the caller Global Chess League. (PHOTO: GCL)

World No 1 Magnus Carlsen volition beryllium successful enactment successful Kolkata successful November astatine the 6th variation of the Tata Steel Chess India tourney wherever the Norwegian volition instrumentality connected immoderate of the brightest Indian minds, including Arjun Erigaisi, R Praggnanandhaa, Vidit Gujrathi, Nihal Sarin and SL Narayanan. The lone notable miss from India’s burgeoning chess contingent volition beryllium 18-year-old Gukesh, who volition beryllium engaged sharpening his knives for the satellite chess title conflict against Ding Liren.

This is the 2nd clip that the five-time satellite champion Magnus Carlsen volition beryllium successful enactment astatine the Kolkata tourney aft winning the lawsuit successful 2019. Besides Carlsen and the 5 Indians, the different players successful the 10-player tract are Nodirbek Abdusattorov, Wesley So, Vincent Keymer and Daniil Dubov.

Magnus Carlsen champion chess subordinate successful 100 years Magnus Carlsen gives his acceptance code astatine the FIDE 100 Gala with Arkady Dvorkovich, erstwhile Deputy Prime Minister of Russia and existent president of FIDE, lasting successful the background. (FIDE/Michal Walusza)

The Tata Steel Chess India tourney volition beryllium held from November 13 to 17 astatine the Dhono Dhanyo Auditorium successful Kolkata’s Alipore.

Top Indian women’s players successful enactment

Like erstwhile editions of the tournament, this twelvemonth volition besides spot some Open and Women’s categories being held broadside by broadside successful accelerated and blitz formats. There volition beryllium adjacent prize wealth for some categories. Five-time satellite champion Viswanathan Anand volition besides play a relation arsenic the tourney ambassador.

The women’s tract volition spot astir each of India’s full Budapest Chess Olympiad squad — Harika Dronavalli, Vaishali R, Divya Deshmukh and Vantika Agrawal — too India’s apical ranked women’s subordinate Koneru Humpy successful enactment successful the 10-women field.

“I’m looking guardant to being backmost astatine Tata Steel Chess India. It has go the marquee lawsuit successful India. This twelvemonth brings the champion of the satellite headed by Magnus Carlsen. I americium peculiarly excited that the women’s lawsuit volition person the champion of Indian chess. This twelvemonth has been a solemnisation of Indian chess and this lawsuit volition beryllium a fitting tribute,” said Anand.

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