KOLKATA: City Grandmasters are optimistic about India's chances in the upcoming Chess Olympiad scheduled to be held in Chennai from July 28.
"We have very good teams and I am hopeful of them doing very well this time," GM Mitrabha Guha said on the sidelines of the Olympiad Torch relay that reached the city on Thursday. Guha recently won the Olympiad Torch Run Open Rapid Tournament in New Delhi. "It was a huge tournament. Topping the list of 1600 players has given me great satisfaction," he stated after receiving the Torch from Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar at the Sports Authority of India centre. Guha, who scored seven out of seven in that event, will be touching 12 cities across North Bengal and North East India over the next week.
