This segues into the fact that Grandmaster D.Gukesh will be making his debut at the Tata Steel Chess tournament making a huge third world champion. That edition of the tournament starts on Friday.  

Gukesh has not competed in the World Rapid and Blitz tournament held in New York last year, making this his first action in quite a while after beating Ding Liren of China in World Championship Held in Singapore december this year.  

The Wimbledon of Chess is what they call the chess tournament held every summer in London and a few other reputable cities starting in 1938. The first ceremony is expected to take place friday with five Indian players still not matched up against each other.  

Gukesh is nominated as the favorite player hailing from India in the fray 2023 owing to his performances displayed in 2024 surpassing 2800 ELO rating being ranked as the highest in India. Moreover Gukesh has been struggling to attend every supertorunament going to try his utmost best to seize the chance available.

The event consisting of 14 places and 13 rounds is expected to give Praggnanandhaa a budding fanbase in the future. Among the new generation chess players, Praggnanandhaa is probably one of the leading contenders with regards to the amount of support he has.

Considering the fact that Indian Vidit Gujrathi had to drop out of the event, the P Harikrishna seems like a perfect replacement for him. Taking after the five Indian contestants, Leon Luke Mendonca is also making his debut in elite chess after emerging victoriously in the previous half of the challengers section.

Over the last two weeks there has been a marriage, and so once again the world’s most invisible male Magnus Carlsen, never-ending love of marriage gets a miss. Third eldest Hikaru Nakamura from the United States will also give it a miss, for he has been focused on other aspects such as youtube and Twitch streaming.

In this match Fabiano Caruana from the USA intends to be the first to sound invited, where both Uzbekistan’s Nodirbek Abdusattorov and Wei Yi, who will participate as titleholder from China.

When Gukesh was overturning the tiebreaker of the Chinese who had been put under tight terma control he was just about to win the 2024 event.

On the other hand, all eyes are likely to be focused on Vladimir Fedoseev who has now switched international allegiance to Slovenia, after being trained in Russia previously as he has recently been exhibiting great competitiveness in the Chess 960 format that, to a great extent, has not yet been developed much, alongside German national Vincent Keymer who responded to his contemporaries’ impulses together with Gukesh at the world championship against the likes of Harikrishna.

Over the past ten or so years, Anish Giri has always led the Dutch campaign, and this time he had the assistance of Jorden van Foreest and Max Warmerdam.

Two other participants from India are also competing in the additional section as ladies and have also proven to be triumphant in the past twelve months or so, which is absolutely astounding.

Along with Divya Deshmukh, R Vaishali, sister to the famed Praggnanandhaa, will return to the wrestling ring. Both were members of the Olympiad women's team who clinched the gold medal.

Masters competitors include Fabiano Caruana (USA), Arjun Erigaisi (Ind), D Gukesh (Ind), Nodirbek Abdusattorov (Uzb), Wei Yi (Chn), R Praggnanandhaa (Ind), Vincent Keymer (Ger), Anish Giri (Ned), Vladimir Fedoseev (Slo), P Harikrishna (Ind), Jorden van Foreest (Ned), Alexey Sarana (Srb), and Leon Luke Mendonca (Ind).

Challengers: Nguyen Thai Van Dan (Cze); Frederic Svane (Ger); Nodirbek Yakubboev (Uzb); Edil Gurel (Tur); Adyin Suleymanli (Aze); Erwin L’Ami (Ned); Bok Benjamin (Ned); Kazybek Nogerbek (Kaz); Divya Deshmukh (Ind); R. Vaishali (Ind); Arthur Pijpers (Ned); Oro Faustino (Arg); Mioyi Lu (Chn); Irina Bulmaga (Rom).