Anand's last chance to make it to the Candidates 2020

The highly anticipated FIDE World Cup 2019 came to an abrupt and heartbreaking end for the Indians recently. Despite a promising start, the players representing the country - ten of them in total - were all eliminated one by one after just three rounds of the tournament. The tragedy befell barely a few weeks ago and now there already is another exciting event around the corner where the best of Indian chess will once again have the opportunity to prove their mettle. The FIDE Chess.com Grand Swiss is set to begin only day after tomorrow and will continue till the 21st of this month. Like the World Cup this also is a qualification event of the 2019-2020 World Championship Cycle and it only gets better as this time there are fifteen Indians ready to take once again on the World's absolute elites. In this preview article we bring all the information that you need to know before the grand chess gala kicks off.