New Delhi: R Pragganandha has been designed to start on Wednesday for the upcoming 16-Khiladi freestyle chess tournament as the world number one Magnus Carlsen in the same group. Meanwhile, Arjun Erigasi and Vidit Gujratha will join the opposite group.Carlson, World No. 1, the event again enters the event as a favorite in a tournament, which has already discussed through several pre-events activities, including the participation of NBA players. The main event is running late on Wednesday.The tournament has a total prize of USD 750,000, with a $ 200,000 for the winner. Each group consists of eight players, in which the top four move forward in the next stage. Below will compete separately in four classification matches.World champion D Gukesh will not be in this version, instead will be determined in about a month instead of getting ready for the upcoming Grandmaster Tour’s main event.The 19 -year -old Pragganandha will open its campaign against Uzbekistan’s Nodirbek Abdusatorov, who recently did a difficult outing at the Grand Chess Tour leg in Zagreb, Croatia. On the other hand, Carlson, Vincent Kimar of Germany, will take the winner of the winner of the opening edition of the freestyle chess event.Making his debut in the tournament, American Hans Neeman has been designed to face Arjun Erigasi in the early stages, while the united Gujarathy will close the horns with the United States partner elite Grandmaster Fabiano Caruana.
In the first, the tournament will also include a female contestant -Bibisara Asabayeva of Kazakhstan -along with the world’s top male players.Freestyle chess, also known as Fisher Random or Chess 960, is a version where early posts of pieces are random. With the minimum opening principle available, the format has gained popularity from the beginning to encourage dynamic and combative games, reducing the frequency of draw-beadiers seen in classical formats.
