Average rating: 2520
Each team not only has a captain, but three coaches who will help the players over the course of the 5-month tour.
Surya Ganguly
6-time Indian Champion
Surya Ganguly has worked on Team Anand for World Chess Championship matches and should have some invaluable advice for his players. You can see him at the end of this short clip from the first pre-tour meeting with the players and coaches.
He’ll get to give advice to two young Indian prodigies,
Gukesh, who at the age of 12 years, 7 months and 17 days became the second youngest chess grandmaster in history (just days slower than Sergey Karjakin), and
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And just in time for the new year comes news of some fine performances by young U.S. stars at this month’s FIDE world youth championships, with eight players medaling and four bringing home the gold in a modified rapid knockout event played (of course) online.
The honor roll: WGM Carissa Yip, Under-18 Girls gold; Dimitar Mardov, Under-12 Open gold; Alice Lee, Under-12 Girls gold; Omya Vidyarthi, Under-10 Girls gold; Thalia Cervantes Landeiro, Under-18 Girls silver; Zoey Tang, Under-12 Girls silver; IM Christopher Yoo, Under-14 Open bronze; Bach Ngo, Under-12 Open bronze.
And the quality of the play, given the shorter time controls and weird circumstances, was refreshingly high. Yip and Cervantes Landeiro engaged in tense absorbing battle in Under-18 girls final before the more experienced Yip finally broke on top.