The Indian Chess Federation (AICF) introduced the respectable staff roster all the way through its Common Frame assembly held in Kanpur on Sunday. Chaired by way of AICF president Sanjay Kapoor, the assembly witnessed the revealing of a powerhouse staff comprising each skilled veterans and promising younger skills.
Within the person divisions, the boys’s staff will probably be represented by way of Grandmasters D Gukesh, Vidit Gujrathi, Arjun Erigaisi, P Harikrishna, and R Praggnanandhaa. In the meantime, Koneru Humpy and Dronavalli Harika will top the rate for Republic of India within the girls’s category.
Becoming a member of Humpy and Harika within the girls’s staff tournament will probably be R Vaishali, Vantika Aggarwal, and Savitha Shri, jointly launch a powerful and flexible squad. The choice procedure for the staff was once rigorous, allowing for the gamers’ contemporary performances and their participation within the difficult World Chess League (GCL).
Particularly, the Indian chess gamers showcased their talents and resilience within the GCL, the place they confronted off in opposition to one of the crucial global’s top-notch chess gamers, together with Magnus Carlsen, the five-time global champion from Norway.
Koneru Humpy, on the pace of 36, would be the senior-most Indian chess participant on the quadrennial Asian Video games. She has expressed her resolution to compete in Hangzhou, in spite of considering skipping the development previous this generation because of considerations indistinguishable to the COVID-19 pandemic. Humpy has an remarkable observe document, having clinched the ladies’s person and combined staff gold medals on the 2006 Asian Video games in Doha.
Dronavalli Harika, any other Asian Video games medallist, will convey her significance revel in to the staff. She tied a person bronze medal on the 2010 version of the Asian Video games in Guangzhou. Then again, chess was once now not incorporated within the curriculum of the 2014 Incheon and 2018 Jakarta editions of the continental video games, making the go back of chess to the Asian Video games upcoming an opening of 13 years all of the extra important.
Because the Indian chess contingent prepares to embark on their Asian Video games walk, they try to proceed the people’s robust legacy within the recreation. With a mix of seasoned champions and rising skills, the Indian staff appears ahead to difficult their opposite numbers from around the continent and etching their names in chess historical past as soon as once more.
The staff:
Males: D Gukesh, Vidit Gujrathi, Arjun Erigaisi, P Harikrishna and R Praggnanandhaa.
Girls: Koneru Humpy, D. Harika, R Vaishali, Vantika Aggarwal and Savitha Shri.
(With inputs from PTI)
