Who will win the Hou Yifan Challenge?
Praggnanandhaa won the Polgar Challenge in April, Gukesh won the Gelfand Challenge in June and Vincent Keymer won the Gelfand Challenge in August. Pragg returns to the tour, while IMs Aditya Mittal, Vaishali along with Poland's IM Pawel Teclaf and WIM Oliwia Kiolbasa will be making their tour debuts today. Team Polgar leads the overall team standings going into the Hou Yifan Challenge with 266 points to Team Kramnik’s 234
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 fourth and last leg in the Challengers Chess Tour.
Team Kramnik
R Praggnanandhaa (India)
Abhimanyu Mishra (USA)
Leon Mendonca (India)
Lei Tingjie (China)
Vaishali R (India)
Christopher Yoo (United States)
Yahli Sokolovsky (Israel)
Pawel Teclaf (Poland)
Oliwia Kiolbasa (Poland)
Team Polgar
Vincent Keymer (Germany)
Awonder Liang (United States)
Aditya Mittal (India)
Volodar Murzin (Russia)
Gunay Mammadzada (Azerbaijan)
Leya Garifullina (Russia)
Jiner Zhu (China)
Balaji Daggupati (USA)
Schedule
Every day between 18th and 21st September, game starts at 7:30 p.m. IST.
