Who will earn their spot at Champions Chess Tour?
Praggnanandhaa won the Polgar Challenge in April. He will be joined by compatriots Gukesh, Nihal, Leon along with the 15 other players in the Gelfand Challenge. All participants remain the same. Julius Baer Challengers Chess Tour - Gelfand Challenge starts today from 6:30 p.m. IST. The winner gets a place at the next event of Meltwater Champions Chess Tour.
That's not all, four more players got added in Reserve category for each team - WGM Leya Garifullina and IM Aditya Mittal for Team Polgar and WGM Vaishali R and FM Yahli Sokolovsky for Team Kramnik. Reserve players have been put, just in case someone faces internet connectivity issues like Saduakassova faced during Polgar Challenge.
The players have been divided into two teams, Team Polgar and Team Kramnik, competing in a series of four four-day round-robin tournaments organised by the Play Magnus Group before the grand finals. This is the second event in the Challengers Chess Tour.
Team Kramnik
Nodirbek Abdusattorov (Uzbekistan)
R Praggnanandhaa (India)
Dinara Saduakassova (Kazakhstan)
Jonas Bjerre (Denmark
Leon Mendonca (India)
Lei Tingjie (China)
Christopher Yoo (United States)
Olga Badelka (Belarus)
Carissa Yip (United States)
Nurgyul Salimova (Bulgaria)
Team Polgar
Nihal Sarin (India)
Awonder Liang (United States)
Vincent Keymer (Germany)
Gukesh D (India)
Sarasadat Khademalsharieh (Iran)
Volodar Murzin (Russia)
Polina Shuvalova (Russia)
Zhansaya Abdumalik (Kazakhstan)
Jiner Zhu (China)
Gunay Mammadzada (Azerbaijan)
