Bakre, Deepan lead Indian challenge in Abu Dhabi chess

Abu Dhabi, Aug 12 (UNI) Grandmaster Tejas Bakre and International Master Deepan Chakravarthy will spearhead the Indian challenge in the 16th Annual Abu Dhabi International Chess Festival which begins here later today.

In the Master section, Tejas ranks 18th with an elo point 2477, while Azerbaijan's Grandmaster, Gashimov Vugar (2644) has been seeded top.

Apart from Tajas, other Indians in this section are OT Anilkuma (2316), SP Sethuraman (2305), MR Lalith Babu (2278), Aswin Jayaram (2229) and Women International Master Nadig Kruttika (2226).

Indian players in the Open section include V Raghunandan Gokhale, G Santosh Vidit, ML Abhilash Reddy, Himananshu Kumar, Bhakti Kulkarni, Ramnath Bhuvanesh, Amit Sharma, Ankit R Rajpara, Shival Jethi, Padmini Rout, Anitha Raja, Anthony Paul, K K Shahul Hameed, K M Ashraf, Komala Konanan, Mamrajuddin Mahboob, P Aboobackr Ali, P Rajan, Kanatholi Ratanakaran, Satya Ranjan Prasad, Shalk Khasim, Shaun Daswani, Sudarshan Surya, Varna Priyadarshini and Vishu Naidu.

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