Exhibition Matches Featuring Viswanathan Anand Raise 50,000 US Dollars for Covid-19 Relief

A collection of simultaneous on-line exhibition matches that includes, amongst others, five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand to assist COVID reduction in India raised USD 50,000 (roughly INR 37 lakh). The occasion was held on Chess.com with high Indian gamers and proceeds would go to Red Cross India and the Checkmate COVID initiative of the All India Chess Federation (AICF), officers of Chess.com mentioned.

On Thursday, Grandmaster Anand, in addition to GMs Koneru Humpy, Harika Dronavalli, Nihal Sarin, and Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu performed simultaneous video games on Chess.com towards a complete of 105 gamers. Any participant with a Chess.com blitz or FIDE customary score of underneath 2000 might play with former world champion Anand by donating USD 150 and with the opposite 4 GMs by paying USD 25 as registration quantity.

The time management for the video games was half-hour with a 30-second increment, with the grandmasters having 15 additional minutes on their clock. The GMs gained with excessive scores however solely Praggnanandhaa managed to win all of his video games. “We are dealing with a sort of nationwide battle. It varies from state to state but it surely’s extraordinarily crucial proper now. I hope this might be a useful resource for the chess neighborhood. Some of us have had Covid and now hopefully they at the least have somebody to name and attain out,” Anand was quoted as saying by chess.com.