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Viswanathan Anand among four players from Tamil Nadu to appear in chess World Cup

Four players from Tamil Nadu are among the seven Indians who will feature in the chess World Cup to be played in Georgia from September 2 to 27.

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CHENNAI: Four players from Tamil Nadu are among the seven Indians who will feature in the chess World Cup to be played in Georgia from September 2 to 27. The 128-player knockout event will see five-time former world champion Viswanathan Anand, who has been selected from the 2016-2017 ratings. National champion Karthikeyan Murali is selected from FIDE Zone 3.7, SP Sethuraman gets the nod for his show in the Asian Continentals, while Baskaran Adhiban is a FIDE nominee. Pentala Harikrishna (from ratings), Deep Sengupta (from Continental 2016) Vidit Gujrathi (from Continental 2017) are the other players who will represent the country at the event.

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