LIC will start as the top Indian team in 1st FIDE Online World Corporate Championship

by Shahid Ahmed - 19/02/2021

Total 288 teams comprising of 1475 players from 68 federations across the world will take part in the 1st FIDE Online World Corporate Chess Championship. Total 69 Indian teams and a staggering 390 Indian players are slated to take part in this event. Only six rounds will be played in the first stage and only top eight teams out of 288 teams will advance to the knockout stage. It means luck will also play a huge role for a team to advance to the next stage. LIC is the top Indian team which will start as the 33rd seed. Photo: Shahid Ahmed and Niklesh Jain

69 Indian teams comprising of 390 players will take part

LIC, TCS Chennai and UBS Maharashtra will be the top three Indian teams out of 288 teams taking part in this three-day first ever FIDE World Corporate Championship. GM Nihal Sarin, GM Praggnanandhaa and IM Prasanna Rao are the top three Indians taking part in this event. They will be representing Akshayakalpa Farms and Foods, TCS Chennai and Vida Health. Sriram Jha is the only other Indian GM who will be seen in action representing LIC as the captain of the team.

GM Sriram Jha, IM D K Sharma and WGM Kiran Manisha Mohanty make LIC a well balanced team | Photo: Shahid Ahmed and Niklesh Jain

With three titled players in their line-up and huge amount of experience, team LIC is no doubt the highest rated Indian team in the fray.

33. LIC (RtgAvg:2172 / TB1: 0 / TB2: 0) Captain: Sriram Jha
Bo.		Name	Rtg	FideID	Gr	Games
1		Gajendra Singh	1850	5002923		0,0
2	IM	Sharma Dinesh Kumar	2289	5004110		0,0
3	GM	Jha Sriram	2379	5001668		0,0
4	WGM	Mohanty Kiran Manisha	2168	5019575		0,0
5		Rajith V.	1739	5011817		0,0

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GM Praggnanandhaa R will be representing Tata Consultancy Services Chennai | Photo: Niklesh Jain

TCS Chennai will be captained by Antony Rajaclimax (2059). The average rating of the team being 2087 makes it the second highest rated Indian team of the event.

49. Tata Consultancy Services Chennai (RtgAvg:2087 / TB1: 0 / TB2: 0) Captain: Antony Rajaclimax
Bo.		Name	Rtg	FideID	Gr	Games
1		Ramachandran Sreenivasan	1551	25035800		0,0
2	GM	Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa	2608	25059530		0,0
3		Chandrashekhar Patil Shreya	1127	25666657		0,0
4		Rajaclimax Antony	2059	5006392		0,0
5		Sudhir Elias	1724			0,0
6		Rajkumar Preethi	1955	5027454		0,0

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IMs Chinmay Kulkarni and Sameer Kathmale will spearhead UBS Maharashtra | Photo: Niklesh Jain

Despite not having any GM in the team, UBS Maharashtra has an average rating of 2074 which makes them the third highest rated Indian team in the competition. The team will be led by IM Chinmay Kulkarni.

52. UBS Maharashtra (RtgAvg:2074 / TB1: 0 / TB2: 0) Captain: Chinmay Kulkarni
Bo.		Name	Rtg	FideID	Gr	Games
1		Tiwari Bhaskar	1512			0,0
2	IM	Kulkarni Chinmay	2333	5023513		0,0
3	IM	Kathmale Sameer	2330	5024498		0,0
4		Ramakrishnan Venkat	2120	5013194		0,0
5		Thakur Tanvi	1185	25901389		0,0

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Nihal Sarin will be representing Akshayakalpa

CEO & Co-founder Shashi Kumar will captain Akshayakalpa Farms and Foods along with Nihal

Nihal will obviously play on the top board, followed by the CEO and Co-founder of Akshayakalpa - Shashi Kumar. The team's starting seed is 179.

179. Akshayakalpa Farms and Foods (RtgAvg:1480 / TB1: 0 / TB2: 0) Captain: Shashi Kumar
Bo.		Name	Rtg	FideID	Gr	Games
1	GM	Sarin Nihal	2620	25092340		0,0
2		Kumar Shashi	1300	25660683		0,0
3		Babu Rajesh	1000			0,0
4		Kadwekar Shraddha	987			0,0

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WGM Vaishali R will be playing for Autodesk | Photo: Amruta Mokal

World Champion Magnus Carlsen will represent Kindred which is starting as 84th seed | Photo: Lennart Ootes / Norway Chess

Reigning Russian champion Ian Nepomniachtchi will play for SBER | Photo: Lennart Ootes / Norway Chess

Dutch no.1 Anish Giri will be obviously representing team Optiver as he is the brand ambassador | Photo: Jurriaan Hoefsmit/Tata Steel Chess Tournament

Carlsen is not the only world champion taking part in this event, two former women's world champions - GM Mariya Muzychuk and GM Antoaneta Stefanova will also be seen in action.

15th Women's World Champion - Mariya Muzychuk will represent BCG Gamma | Photo: David Llada / FIDE

11th Women's World Champion - Antoaneta Stefanova will be playing for Paypal (BUL) | Photo: David Llada / FIDE

Schedule

Pool matches (Friday 19th February and Saturday 20th February)

Eastern Zone:

8:30 p.m. IST

10:00 p.m. IST

11:30 p.m. IST

Western Zone:

7:00 a.m. IST (next day)

8:30 a.m. IST (next day)

10:00 a.m. IST (next day)

Knockout stage (Sunday 21st February)

8:30 p.m. IST (one match)

10:00 p.m. IST (one match)

11:30 p.m and 12:30 a.m. IST (duel)

Team-Starting rank

No.	Team	RtgAvg	Group	Captain
1	SBER	2450	E	Vladimir Vorozheykin
2	Grenke Bank	2427	E	Georg Meier
3	Morgan Stanley (HUN)	2412	E	Gabor Szamoskozi
4	Sberbank Trade Union	2396	E	Vladimir Vorozheykin
5	Microsoft Redmond	2380	W	Jasper Zaporteza
6	BCG Gamma	2370	E	Vincent Riff
7	Emphie Solutions	2367	E	Wojciech Reza
8	Alkaloid	2365	E	Nikola Dimovski
9	CSOB	2361	E	Martin Cerveny
10	Paypal (BUL)	2345	E	Sergey Erenburg
11	Rosseti Volga	2339	E	Alexey Lebedev
12	PT Pelabuhan Tanjung Priok	2334	W	Muhammad Lutfi Ali
13	Yandex	2331	E	Artur Vasilov
14	Probit	2320	E	Jolanta Zawadzka
15	American Express	2316	W	Mark Ginsburg

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Players list

No.		Name	FideID	Rtg	Team	Bo.
1	GM	Carlsen Magnus	1503014	2862	Kindred	1
2	GM	Nepomniachtchi Ian	4168119	2789	SBER	1
3	GM	Giri Anish	24116068	2764	Optiver	1
4	GM	Artemiev Vladislav	24101605	2709	Aeroflot	1
5	GM	Wojtaszek Radoslaw	1118358	2705	WASKO	1
6	GM	Jakovenko Dmitry	4122356	2684	Yandex	1
7	GM	Korobov Anton	14105730	2683	Sberbank Trade Union	1
8	GM	Saleh Salem	9301348	2682	Emirates	1
9	GM	Malakhov Vladimir	4120787	2665	ALRUD Law Firm	1
10	GM	Abasov Nijat	13402960	2664	SOCAR	1
11		Lautier Joel	600016	2658	Sovcombank	2
12	GM	Meier Georg	4675789	2628	Grenke Bank	1
13	GM	Sarin Nihal	25092340	2620	Akshayakalpa Farms and Foods	1
14	GM	Smirin Ilia	2801990	2614	Slav Group	1
15	GM	Demchenko Anton	4160258	2610	Rosseti Kuban	1

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Links

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