Chess World Cup: Intriguing battles on the playing cards

A number of intriguing battles are on the playing cards on the Chess World Cup starting in Goa on November 1. And a few of them may contain all-Indian affairs.

Top seed D. Gukesh may open his marketing campaign in opposition to R. Raja Rithvik, if the latter may overcome Kazybek Nogerbek of Kazakhstan within the first spherical. The World champion from Chennai is among the 50 high gamers which have been seeded immediately into the second spherical.

Second seed Arjun Erigiaisi, third seed R. Praggnanandhaa, Vidit Gujrathi, P. Harikrishna, Aravindh Chithambaram and Nihal Sarin, who may doubtlessly run into Divya Deshmukh, the reigning girls’s World Cup champion; the Nagpur teenager is pitted in opposition to a higher-rated participant although: Stamatis Kourkoulos-Arditis of Greece.

Other distinguished Indian gamers who need to play within the first spherical embody S.L. Narayanan, Karthikeyan Murali, Raunak Sadhwani, V. Pranav and Pa. Iniyan.

The World Cup is among the greatest occasions within the chess calendar and India is internet hosting it for under the second time; the final time was greater than 20 years in the past, at Hyderabad.

Anish Giri, Wesley So, Vincent Keymer, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Wei Yi, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Nordibek Abdusattorov are among the many stars who will compete in Goa.