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CHENNAI: In Chennai, every school has a sports culture. St Bede’s, Vidya Mandir, Don Bosco and Santhome schools are known to be cricket-centric and have strong teams that play in the TNCA inter-school tournaments. Meanwhile, MCTM School in Pursawalkam used to have a good presence in basketball. Lady Andal and Chettinad Vidyashram are known to have produced high-ranking swimmers. Likewise, Velammal Group of Schools has made a mark by promoting chess and creating Grandmasters (GM).
Velammal Nexus, which has the strongest chess team in the country, has made it to the final of the World Online School Chess Tournament to be played in November in Dubai along with the World Championship match of Magnus Carlsen. The final will be an over-the-board event. Velammal team consists of the likes of GM R Praggnanandhaa, GM Gukesh, GM Leon Mendonca and promising players like Pranav, Ajay Karthikeyan, Rakshitta, Rindhya, Savitha. “I am very happy to play for my school and
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Aronian wins the preliminaries
The preliminary stage of the Goldmoney Asian Rapid tournament came to an end on Monday. Eight out of the sixteen participants moved on to the quarterfinals, with top grandmasters Alireza Firouzja, Peter Svidler and Daniil Dubov missing the cut. On the other hand, the big surprise was 17-year-old Indian grandmaster Arjun Erigaisi making it into the knockout.
The top scorers were Levon Aronian, Vladislav Artemiev and Ding Liren. Tour leader Magnus Carlsen finished tied in fourth place with Wesley So, each with 9/15 points, which means they will face each other in the most exciting matchup of the quarterfinals. Carlsen and So are placed first and second in the tour’s overall standings, as they were the finalists in 3 out of the 6 events played so far Carlsen won the last duel at the end of last month.
The Goldmoney Asian Rapid, the seventh leg of the Champions Chess Tour, began on Saturday. Despite a loss in the first round to GM Alireza Firouzja, World Champion Magnus Carlsen is tied for first place with GMs Ding Liren, Levon Aronian, Vladislav Artemiev, and Daniil Dubov after five rounds. It was.
Wesley So, right, and Fabiano Caruana (Photo from Grand Chess Tour)
Grandmaster Wesley So seeks to add another feather to his cap as he plunges back into action in the online Goldmoney Asian Rapid of the Metyltwater Champions Chess Tour starting this weekend.
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