{"id":22535,"date":"2022-08-10T14:17:12","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T14:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/?p=22535"},"modified":"2022-08-10T16:12:34","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T16:12:34","slug":"tata-steel-chess-india-to-introduce-womens-tournament-in-4th-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/?p=22535","title":{"rendered":"Tata Steel Chess India to Introduce Women\u2019s Tournament in 4th Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG-01_copy_800x600.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22536\" src=\"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG-01_copy_800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG-01_copy_800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG-01_copy_800x600-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG-01_copy_800x600-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Faceinews-Logo-Copy.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7654\" src=\"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Faceinews-Logo-Copy.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"173\" height=\"43\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tata Steel Chess India to Introduce Women\u2019s Tournament in 4<sup>th<\/sup> Edition<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Video Link :-<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Chess Grand Master Vishwanathan Anand faced Press People India&#039;s Biggest Tata Steel Chess Tournament\" width=\"598\" height=\"336\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/M3ZJwMS3p7M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Kolkata to host event from November 29 \u2013 December 4, 2022<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chennai, August 10, 2022<\/strong>: The 4<sup>th<\/sup>edition of Tata Steel Chess India was announced today with the introduction of a Women\u2019s Edition of the tournament.\u00a0 The open tournament has been on for three editions nowand in its fourth edition, TSCI will have a women\u2019s tournament with the same format \u2013 rapid and blitz. The tournament will take place from November 29 \u2013December 4, 2022 in Kolkata.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG-02_copy_800x450.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22537\" src=\"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG-02_copy_800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG-02_copy_800x450.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG-02_copy_800x450-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG-02_copy_800x450-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG-02_copy_800x450-642x362.jpg 642w, https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG-02_copy_800x450-128x72.jpg 128w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Top International Grandmasters, top Indian men and women Grandmasters, young Indian talents and Viswanathan Anand as the ambassador and advisor of the tournament will enrich this year\u2019s competition. For the first time in the history of the game, the prize fund for both the men\u2019s and women\u2019s category will be equal.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Women Grandmasters who have already confirmed their participation are Anna and Mariya Muzychuk from Ukraine, Nana Dzagnidze from Georgia and Alina Kashlinskaya from Poland. Indian chess superstars Koneru Humpy and Harika Dronavalli will be joined by rising star Vaishali R \u2013 all of who was part of the Bronze-winning team at the recently concluded Chess Olympiad in Chennai.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mr. Viswanathan Anand, Ambassador of Tata Steel Chess India on the occasion said<\/strong>, <em>\u201cI am extremely delighted that today chess is considered as a mainstream sport. Tournaments like Tata Steel Chess India where our young players fight it out with International Grandmasters really helps the cause of producing newer champions. Today, India is considered as chess power-house with both men and women excelling in the sport. The introduction of the women\u2019s tournament with equal prize money as the men category is a welcome move and an excellent initiative and we hope it is as well-received by the chess enthusiasts. Chess is and should be an equal sport.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Speaking on the occasion Mr. Chanakya Chaudhary, Vice President, Corporate Services, Tata Steel said, <\/strong><em>\u201cWe are delighted to announce that this year&#8217;s edition of Tata Steel Chess India will witness the launch of a Women&#8217;s Tournament as well. What better year to start this than FIDE\u2019s \u2018Year Of The Woman In Chess.\u2019 The event will give young Indian talent the opportunity to play against top International Grandmasters. Tata Steel Chess India is part of Tata Steel\u2019s continuous and conscious effort to build an equitable and diverse environment while engaging with communities through meaningful activities. We are encouraged by the enthusiasm and participation we have received over the past years and are determined to make this world class chess competition even better.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Tania Sachdev expressed their happiness over the introduction of women category in Tata Steel Chess India. She echoed that the introduction of equality in the prize amount by Tata Steel Chess India will encourage more women to take up the sport as a profession.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mr. Bharat Singh Chauhan, Hon. Secretary, AICF said<\/strong>, \u201c<em>We as a national body for promoting chess is extremely happy to witness resurgence and renewed interest towards this sport from the people of the country. The recently concluded Chess Olympiad is an example of the growing importance of chess in India. Over the past few years, Tata Steel Chess India is helping to popularize the sport and take the game to every corner of the country. And this year, the addition of the Women&#8217;s tournament is a welcome development.<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Few years ago, Gameplan had taken the initiative of promoting chess by organizing a global chess tournament in India with support from Tata Steel. Today, we are extremely delighted we are able to add a women\u2019s tournament as well to the TSCI event. It is encouraging to witness the increasing level of interest among the citizens of the country for chess. We are committed to the development of sports in the country by organizing such global tournaments<\/em>.\u201d <strong>said Mr. Jeet Banerjee, Director, Gameplan.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tata Steel Chess India to Introduce Women\u2019s Tournament in 4th Edition Video Link :- Kolkata to host event from November 29 \u2013 December 4, 2022 &nbsp; Chennai, August 10, 2022: The 4thedition of Tata Steel Chess India was announced today with the introduction of a Women\u2019s Edition of the tournament.\u00a0 The open tournament has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22536,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-corporate","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22535"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22546,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22535\/revisions\/22546"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}