Grandmaster Parimarjan Negi and former world junior champion Abhijeet Gupta will spearhead a 28-strong Indian Challenge in the 12th Dubai International Open Chess Tournament here.
Grandmaster Parimarjan Negi and former world junior champion Abhijeet Gupta will spearhead a 28-strong Indian Challenge in the 12th Dubai International Open Chess Tournament here.
Parimarjan starts as the third seed in one of the strongest Asian events, starting today, that has 35 Grandmasters in a field of 153 participants vying for a total prize pool of USD 45000.
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In all, 28 Indians are in the fray of varying strength and there number is exceeded by players from the local federation only.
Grandmaster Gabriel Sargissian of Armenia, famous as the second of compatriot Levon Aronian, starts as the top seed in the nine-day event with an ELO rating of 2675 points.
Besides Parimarjan and Abhijeet, the Indian list of Grandmasters participants includes S Arun Prasad and R R Laxman while GM norm holder D Harika is the highest rated Indian girl.
International Masters M R Lalith Babu, S Satyapragyan and Sahaj Grover are among those who will be hoping for a better performance to make Grandmaster norms while the younger lot including Shiven Khosla will be vying for International Master's norm from the tournament.
Parimarjan Negi will certainly be a title contender given his ability to win big tournaments.
The Indian teenager is the second youngest ever Grandmaster in the history of the game after Sergey Karjakin of Ukraine and would like to come up good in his second major open of 2010.
In the first one Capplle de grande at France, Parimarjan had tied for the second spot.
Abhijeet Gupta too has shown a knack for winning major events and an indication of his strength was his tied first finish in the Reykjavik International open at Reykjavik in Iceland.
Defeating a big name like Ivan Sokolov at Reykjavik did boost the young Indian's confidence.
The List of Indian players in Dubai Open: Parimarjan Negi, Abhijeet Gupta, S Arun Prasad, M R Lalith Babu, R R Laxman, D Harika, S Satyapragyan, M R Venkatesh, Sahaj Grover, M Shyam Sundar, Eesha Karavade, Ramnath Bhuvanesh, S Meenakshi, Vaibhav Suri, Padmini Rout, Shiven Khosla, Chinmay Kulkarni, Abhishek Kelkar, Vinod Bhagwat, Antonio Viani D'cunha, Tejas Ravichandran, Karma Pandya, P I Johny, Manjunath Jain, M Vigram, Sudharsan Surya, N Madhuri, M Priadarshni.
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