Mumbai, Sept 02: Arch rivals and the present and former world champions Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov (both from Russia) are among the top 13 Grandmasters to be seen in action in the category-20 super Grandmaster world invitation chess tournament to be held here in December. Chairman of Mumbai Chess Association and Dronacharya award winner, Raghunandan Gokhale told reporters here today that the Indian challenge would be spearheaded by Vishwanathan Anand.
Prominent chess stars like Valadimir Karmnik of Russia, Peter Leko of Hungary, Alexander Grischuk of Russia, Alexei Shirov of Spain, Peter Svidler and Evgeny Bareev (both from Russia) and Michael Adams of England also likely to take part in the mega tournament.
"Others who are likely to take part in the tournament, which has a total prize money of Rs 30 lakh, are Judit Polgar of Hungary, Ruslan Ponomariov and Vassily Ivanchuk (both from Ukraine), Vladimir Akopian of Armenia, Zurab Azmaiparashvili of Georgia, Nigel Short of England, Alexey Dreev and Vladimir Malakhov (both from Russia) and Boris Gelfand of Israel," he added.
"The tournament to be played in the all-play-all format will also witness special lectures series and training sessions by super GMs apart from a series of rapid games, blindfold games, where a top super gm will play blindfolded exhibition matches," Gokhale said.
Bureau Report