India's top chess players, including talented youngsters such as R Praggnanandhaa, D Gukesh, Nihal Sarin and national champion Aravindh Chithambaram will take part in the Indian Chess.com League to be played online from May 15-17.
A total of 10 teams will take part in the tournament which will see the participation of over 25 Indian Grandmasters.
The tournament's main vision is to bring out the best players of our country to play against each other in a team format, the organisers said.
GM Priyadarshan Kanappan, the league commissioner said, "The Sports League was something that I had been very familiar with as I lived in the US where you had leagues for all sports; so I always used to wonder if we could replicate that format in India, and that's how this league idea happened."