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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