5-time world chess champion Viswanathan Anand is not a part of India’s 2024 Chess Olympiad squad like within the final version of the celebrated biennial FIDE event, however the Indian males’s staff could not really feel his absence as a lot this time, contemplating how the likes of R Praggnanandhaa, D Gukesh, Vidit Gujrathi and others have taken the legend’s legacy ahead within the final 2-Three years.
India received a bronze medal within the 2022 Olympiad, which noticed Anand’s title lacking from the squad. Earlier than that, he performed the unofficial on-line variations of the event throughout the Covid-19 pandemic.
Why is Anand lacking within the Olympiad squad once more?
Anand, who stays the flagbearer of the game in India, is presently ranked 11th on FIDE world rankings that has two Indians within the prime 10 — Arjun Erigiasi at No. four and D Gukesh at No. 7. Praggnanandhaa occupies the 12th spot.
Earlier this 12 months, Gukesh scripted historical past by successful the Candidates Chess Event and broke the legendary Garry Kasparov’s report of changing into the youngest Candidates winner and challenger to the world title at 17 years outdated.
Praggnanandhaa too made big strides along with his a number of wins over former world champion Magnus Carlsen and the reigning champion Ding Liren.
It is most likely due to the rise of India’s younger chess gamers that Anand has determined to sidestep and permit the nation’s subsequent era to take over on the most important stage. Actually, Anand has mentored the likes of Gukesh and Praggnanandhaa.
So it isn’t shocking when he calls himself “semi-retired”, which is a sign that it is a voluntary determination he has taken since 2020 to step away from the Olympiad.
“I’ll play a number of occasions subsequent 12 months. I don’t know but what they’re; I hope to play in Spain once more. Semi-retired type of implies that I’m slowly transitioning out as a substitute of quitting at some point, I’m pacing myself,” the 54-year-old Anand mentioned in an interview with PTI.
The Indian males’s staff is seeded second for this version of the Olympiad and contains Vidit Gujrathi, Praggnanandhaa, Gukesh, Arjun Erigaise, and P Harikrishna.
Indian ladies’s staff, however, is the highest seed and can be led by D Harika and R Vaishali, Divya Deshmukh and Vantika Agarwal. Tania Sachdev because the reserve participant.
India received a bronze medal within the 2022 Olympiad, which noticed Anand’s title lacking from the squad. Earlier than that, he performed the unofficial on-line variations of the event throughout the Covid-19 pandemic.
Why is Anand lacking within the Olympiad squad once more?
Anand, who stays the flagbearer of the game in India, is presently ranked 11th on FIDE world rankings that has two Indians within the prime 10 — Arjun Erigiasi at No. four and D Gukesh at No. 7. Praggnanandhaa occupies the 12th spot.
Earlier this 12 months, Gukesh scripted historical past by successful the Candidates Chess Event and broke the legendary Garry Kasparov’s report of changing into the youngest Candidates winner and challenger to the world title at 17 years outdated.
Praggnanandhaa too made big strides along with his a number of wins over former world champion Magnus Carlsen and the reigning champion Ding Liren.
It is most likely due to the rise of India’s younger chess gamers that Anand has determined to sidestep and permit the nation’s subsequent era to take over on the most important stage. Actually, Anand has mentored the likes of Gukesh and Praggnanandhaa.
So it isn’t shocking when he calls himself “semi-retired”, which is a sign that it is a voluntary determination he has taken since 2020 to step away from the Olympiad.
“I’ll play a number of occasions subsequent 12 months. I don’t know but what they’re; I hope to play in Spain once more. Semi-retired type of implies that I’m slowly transitioning out as a substitute of quitting at some point, I’m pacing myself,” the 54-year-old Anand mentioned in an interview with PTI.
The Indian males’s staff is seeded second for this version of the Olympiad and contains Vidit Gujrathi, Praggnanandhaa, Gukesh, Arjun Erigaise, and P Harikrishna.
Indian ladies’s staff, however, is the highest seed and can be led by D Harika and R Vaishali, Divya Deshmukh and Vantika Agarwal. Tania Sachdev because the reserve participant.
