Anand predicts tough times for men’s team

World rapid chess champion Viswanathan Anand today said it would be a tough task for the Indian men’s team to win a medal at the forthc...

World rapid chess champion Viswanathan Anand today said it would be a tough task for the Indian men’s team to win a medal at the forthcoming Olympiad at Spain as they would be up against some strong opposition.

“We will be playing some top chess playing countries like Russia, Israel, Ukraine, USA and Armenia among others and it will be a tough task for us to win a medal as all the members of the team will have to do well consistently,” Anand told reporters here.

“Compared to the men’s team, the women’s team has a better chance of winning a medal as they not only have a very good team but their opponents too are not as formidable as in the men’s field,” Anand said.

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Touching on various topics, the champion said that his next important assignments are to see that his team does well at the Olympiad and to win the Chess Oscar.

On his recent performances this year, Anand said, “This year has been very good for me and I hope it will continue for some time. I think I did pretty well to win the Corus Grandmasters tournament in Wijk Aan Zee and then the Dortmund chess and Mainz chess in Germany which had chess greats like Garry Kasparov and Vladimir Kramnik in the fray.

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