The five -time world champion Viswanathan Anand is ready to return during the World Championship in the Fast and Blitz Team Team within the Freedom Team. The party will be led by FIDE CEO Emil Sutovsly, which contains only Anand as the only Indian in the team.
Hot popular for the tournament will be the WR chess team, which will be headed by Ian Nepomniachtchi from Russia to the Supreme Council, because Magnus Carlsen will not participate in the competition. World No. 1 refused to participate in the FIDE event. Arjun Erigaisi will also be on the top album and will help P Harikrishn on the second album.
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The World Junior Champion in Praranav is a welcome addition to the side next to Luke Leon Mendonco, another rising star in Indian chess behind the World Champion D Gukesh, Arjun, R Pragnanandhaa and Aravindh Chithambaram.
The event will also see Nihal Sarin in action because it will be the fifth seeded Ashdod Elite Chess Club. Nihal and Anand will play as the highest seed on the top album like Erigaisi, but the presence of D Gukesh and Carlsen will be missing when they decided to skip the event.
The WR chess team is stacked with Neomniachtchi, Firouzja Alireza, Maxure Vachier-Lagrave, Hikaru Nakamura, Alexandra Kostenuik and Wesley on the side. Within the rules of the competition, each round must have less than 2200 on the FIDE list, which was last published on June 1.
It was added to make the tournament dynamics exciting than any other team event.
The winner of each competition will receive $ 110000 and $ 75,000.
Published on:
10th June 2025
