Praggnanandhaa, Vidit, Nihal, Gukesh, Arjun to battle Carlsen and world's best at World Rapid and Blitz 2023

29 Indians are slated to take part

"...The Rapid and Blitz are very separate events in the sense that, the rapid has considerably fewer rounds and the results at the top thus will be more random. I am personally very significant favorite in the Blitz event. The rapid championship is a lot more open. I would say that there are a lot of players who have the potential to win including Nodirbek Abdusattorov but there is not one particular name that stands out." - Magnus Carlsen on the contenders of World Rapid and Blitz 2023. When Carlsen himself is saying that he is the heavy favorite in Blitz but none in Rapid, that should speak volumes about the level of the playing field. 

Magnus Carlsen on getting white pieces for the first game in both rapid and blitz

The flight which had over a dozen Indian players

On 25th of December, an Indigo flight carried various Indian players including three ChessBase India team members to Tashkent. Here are the players who were present in it - GM R Praggnanandhaa, GM Nihal Sarin, GM D Gukesh, GM Arjun Erigaisi, GM Sandipan Chanda, GM S L Narayanan, GM B Adhiban, GM Pranav Venkatesh, GM Mitrabha Guha, GM Karthik Venkataraman, GM Vaishali R, IM Divya Deshmukh, WGM Savitha Shri B and Sarayu Velpula. Can you guess their combined Elo rating? It is possible that I might be forgetting a name or two present in the flight, so apologies for that.

After the conclusion of Opening Press Conference, Inauguration Ceremony and Draw of Lots, the day concluded with a gala dinner at a restaurant in the city center of Samarkand, Uzbekistan.

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