KOLKATA, Nov 11:
This year’s Tata Steel India Rapid and Blitz chess tournament was cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic, the organisers said.
World champion Magnus Carlsen won the tournament last year which was a part of the Grand Chess Tour and had featured 10 Grandmasters, including India’s Viswanathan Anand.
However, the organisers decided to scrap the 2020 edition in view of the global health crisis.
“In view of the pandemic and to ensure safety and well-being of chess enthusiasts and sports fraternity at large, we have taken a considered view of cancelling the tournament this year,” Chanakya Chaudhary, vice-president corporate services Tata Steel, said. (PTI)
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