Grandmaster Vidit Gujrathi on Tuesday said "everything came together" for him at the Grand Swiss event on his way to the Candidates, and expressed a wish to make the world chess championship final ahead of celebrated names such as R Praggnanandhaa. (More Chess News)
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The 29-year-old Gujrathi is among the three Indians who have qualified for the Candidates event to be held in April, with the winner of the eight-player competition set to take on China's Ding Liren in the next world championship.
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It is the first time that three Indian male players are going to feature in the event.바카라 웹사이트
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R Praggnanandhaa and D Gukesh are the other two Indians who have qualified for the event, with Nasik's Gujrathi being the first from the state of Maharashtra to reach such a level. "Everything came together in three-day Grand Swiss, where just one game after the other, I kept winning," Gujrathi said during a media conference at the Mumbai Press Club.
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"Probably these last one-and-a-half years were training (me) for such a situation — when the big-stakes situation came — I was ready for it," he said.바카라 웹사이트 "I want it to be me who makes it from India," Gujrathi said.
Gujrathi said it was expected to not have five-time world champion Magnus Carlsen at Candidates, as his absence makes the "dynamics" interesting.바카라 웹사이트 "It was expected. It's not a surprise for me that he's not playing. If he had played, he was without a doubt, a favourite.바카라 웹사이트
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"That doesn't mean that I'm like, discounting myself. But he would have definitely added a new layer of friction in winning the tournament. But now that he's not playing the dynamics are good," he said.바카라 웹사이트