World No 1 Magnus Carlsen can be in motion in Kolkata in November on the sixth version of the Tata Metal Chess India event the place the Norwegian will tackle a number of the brightest Indian minds, together with Arjun Erigaisi, R Praggnanandhaa, Vidit Gujrathi, Nihal Sarin and SL Narayanan. The one notable miss from India’s burgeoning chess contingent can be 18-year-old Gukesh, who can be busy sharpening his knives for the world chess championship battle towards Ding Liren.
That is the second time that the five-time world champion Magnus Carlsen can be in motion on the Kolkata event after successful the occasion in 2019. Moreover Carlsen and the 5 Indians, the opposite gamers within the 10-player area are Nodirbek Abdusattorov, Wesley So, Vincent Keymer and Daniil Dubov.
Magnus Carlsen offers his acceptance speech on the FIDE 100 Gala with Arkady Dvorkovich, former Deputy Prime Minister of Russia and present president of FIDE, standing within the background. (FIDE/Michal Walusza)
The Tata Metal Chess India event can be held from November 13 to 17 on the Dhono Dhanyo Auditorium in Kolkata’s Alipore.
Prime Indian ladies’s gamers in motion
Like earlier editions of the event, this 12 months may even see each Open and Girls’s classes being held facet by facet in speedy and blitz codecs. There can be equal prize cash for each classes. 5-time world champion Viswanathan Anand may even play a task because the event ambassador.
The open and girls’s fields at Tata Metal Chess India 2024
The ladies’s area will see nearly all of India’s whole Budapest Chess Olympiad staff — Harika Dronavalli, Vaishali R, Divya Deshmukh and Vantika Agrawal — apart from India’s prime ranked ladies’s participant Koneru Humpy in motion within the 10-women area.
“I’m wanting ahead to being again at Tata Metal Chess India. It has turn into the marquee occasion in India. This 12 months brings the perfect of the world headed by Magnus Carlsen. I’m notably excited that the ladies’s occasion may have the perfect of Indian chess. This 12 months has been a celebration of Indian chess and this occasion can be a becoming tribute,” stated Anand.