Praggnanandhaa on new events popping up in chess: ‘Difficult to adjust to each format sometimes, but happy there are new opportunities’
R Praggnanandhaa, who recently secured his spot in the Candidates tournament via the FIDE Circuit route, he’s happy that the sport is now giving players so many opportunities to play and become full-time professionals.
Ahead of the third edition of GCL in Mumbai, Pragg was in Dharavi as the chief guest at the Dharavi Chess Championship on Friday. (Express Photo by Deepak Joshi) The landscape of chess will be altered in a year’s time when the new Total Chess World Championship Tour comes into effect in 2027. The tour will end up crowning a fourth world champion—the FIDE World Combined Champion—which will be an addition to other world championships like the Classical World Champion, the World Rapid and the World Blitz Champion.
India’s R Praggnanandhaa, who recently secured his spot in the Candidates tournament via the FIDE Circuit route, says that he’s happy that the sport is now giving players so many opportunities to play and become full-time professionals.
“I am happy to see that there are new opportunities for the players to play and since we have so many players, getting more opportunities for them to play is amazing, in that way it is great to see new tournaments coming up. In terms of format, there are constant shifts which are happening. I am not sure if it is a good thing or a bad thing, but as a player, I think it is sometimes difficult to adjust to each format,” he was quoted as saying by PTI. “But it is also good that we have so many tournaments around, that players can participate in and they can make a living out of playing.”
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