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Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand to mentor Indian chess team for 2022 Asian Games

India is confident for an abundant medal haul after just protecting 2 bronze medals at 2010 event

With 8 months left for the Eastern Gamings 2022 to begin at Hangzhou, China on September 10, the All India Chess Federation (AICF) is confident of an abundant medal haul from their guys’s as well as ladies’s group when the chess technique go back to the Asian Gamings layer after 12 years.

” Looking at the 4 gold medals at risk in the video games, epic Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand took a various duty as well as will certainly coach the group as well as initial session with him as well as gamers will certainly begin following Thursday,” specified a main launch.

Intending to make a huge distinction after 2010 Guangzhou Gamings, where India just obtained 2 bronze medals, AICF began the prep work well beforehand by choosing 10 probables each for the guys’s as well as ladies’s group.

The group has actually been picked on the basis of their Worldwide Ranking as well as Vidit Gujarathi, P Harikrishna, Nihal Sarin, S L Narayanan, K Sasikiran, B Adhiban, Karthikeyan Murali, Arjun Erigaisi, Abhijeet Gupta as well as Surya Shekhar Ganguly made it in the guys’s group while the ladies’s group will certainly be picked from K Humpy, D Harika, Vaishali R, Tania Sachdev, Bhakti Kulkarni, Vantika Agrawal, Mary Ann Gomes, Soumya Swaminathan as well as Eesha Karavade.

The choice board containing Abhijit Kunte, Dibeyandu Barua as well as Dinesh Sharma will certainly choose the last listing of 5 gamers in April.

The chess occasion of the video games will certainly begin on September 11 as well as will certainly be played in 2 styles. The Specific Occasion of Males and female will certainly be played in Fast time control from September 11-14 while 4 Board five-member Group Occasion will certainly be played under Common time control from September 16-24.

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