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There is simply a nip successful the aerial successful the City of Joy. And, determination volition beryllium immoderate top-flight chess, too, successful the Tata Steel Chess India accelerated and blitz tournament, which volition spot the legendary Viswanathan Anand instrumentality connected a fewer of his young compatriots who are aiming to make a bequest of their own.
The Dhono Dhanyo Auditorium present volition spot the five-time satellite champion, who lone plays occasionally these days, pit his skills against the likes of Arjun Erigaisi, R. Praggnanandhaa, Vidit Gujrathi, Nihal Sarin, and Aravindh Chithambaram, isolated from the overseas competitors — Wesley So, Wei Yi, Voldar Murzin and Hans Niemann successful the Open section.
First-round pairings
Open: Nihal Sarin vs Wei Yi, Arjun Erigaisi vs Vidit Gujrathi, Hans Niemann vs Volodar Murzin, Viswanathan Anand vs Wesley So, Praggnanandhaa vs Aravindh Chithambaram.
Women: Rakshitta Ravi vs Aleksandra Goryachkina, Carissa Yip vs Stavroula Tsolakido, Divya Deshmukh vs D. Harika, Nana Dzagnidze vs Kateryna Lagno, Vantika Agarwal vs R. Vaishali.
The tournament, opening connected Wednesday, volition spot the players vie for apical honours successful accelerated and blitz events.
D. Gukesh’s precocious withdrawal has robbed the title of immoderate of its sheen, denying the fans a accidental to witnesser battles betwixt the existent satellite champion and a erstwhile satellite champ.
Chess lovers volition inactive get to spot however ‘mentor’ Anand goes against Arjun, Praggnanandhaa and the others.
Arjun, coming disconnected a treble bronze-winning show successful the World accelerated and blitz title precocious successful December, volition beryllium the 1 to beat, portion Praggnanandhaa volition beryllium keen to travel up with a top-notch show successful a tract that besides boasts of the 2024 World accelerated victor Volodar Murzin.
Murzin, the experienced So, Yi (runner-up successful the World Cup successful Goa recently), and Niemann volition beryllium aiming to marque their beingness felt successful what is expected to beryllium a thrilling 5 days of chess.
In the women’s section, each eyes volition beryllium connected Divya Deshmukh, the World Cup winner, successful a beardown line-up that features Aleksandra Goryachkina, Kateryna Lagno and R. Vaishali and D. Harika.
Vantika Agrawal, Rakshitta Ravi, Nana Dzagnidze, Carissa Yip and Stavroula Tsolakido are the others successful the fray and they wouldn’t conscionable beryllium making up the numbers.
