69 Indian teams comprising of 390 players will take part
LIC, TCS Chennai and UBS Maharashtra will be the top three Indian teams out of 288 teams taking part in this three-day first ever FIDE World Corporate Championship. GM Nihal Sarin, GM Praggnanandhaa and IM Prasanna Rao are the top three Indians taking part in this event. They will be representing Akshayakalpa Farms and Foods, TCS Chennai and Vida Health. Sriram Jha is the only other Indian GM who will be seen in action representing LIC as the captain of the team.
With three titled players in their line-up and huge amount of experience, team LIC is no doubt the highest rated Indian team in the fray.
| 33. LIC (RtgAvg:2172 / TB1: 0 / TB2: 0) Captain: Sriram Jha | ||||||
| Bo. | Name | Rtg | FideID | Gr | Games | |
| 1 | Gajendra Singh | 1850 | 5002923 | 0,0 | ||
| 2 | IM | Sharma Dinesh Kumar | 2289 | 5004110 | 0,0 | |
| 3 | GM | Jha Sriram | 2379 | 5001668 | 0,0 | |
| 4 | WGM | Mohanty Kiran Manisha | 2168 | 5019575 | 0,0 | |
| 5 | Rajith V. | 1739 | 5011817 | 0,0 | ||
TCS Chennai will be captained by Antony Rajaclimax (2059). The average rating of the team being 2087 makes it the second highest rated Indian team of the event.
| 49. Tata Consultancy Services Chennai (RtgAvg:2087 / TB1: 0 / TB2: 0) Captain: Antony Rajaclimax | ||||||
| Bo. | Name | Rtg | FideID | Gr | Games | |
| 1 | Ramachandran Sreenivasan | 1551 | 25035800 | 0,0 | ||
| 2 | GM | Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa | 2608 | 25059530 | 0,0 | |
| 3 | Chandrashekhar Patil Shreya | 1127 | 25666657 | 0,0 | ||
| 4 | Rajaclimax Antony | 2059 | 5006392 | 0,0 | ||
| 5 | Sudhir Elias | 1724 | 0,0 | |||
| 6 | Rajkumar Preethi | 1955 | 5027454 | 0,0 | ||
Despite not having any GM in the team, UBS Maharashtra has an average rating of 2074 which makes them the third highest rated Indian team in the competition. The team will be led by IM Chinmay Kulkarni.
| 52. UBS Maharashtra (RtgAvg:2074 / TB1: 0 / TB2: 0) Captain: Chinmay Kulkarni | ||||||
| Bo. | Name | Rtg | FideID | Gr | Games | |
| 1 | Tiwari Bhaskar | 1512 | 0,0 | |||
| 2 | IM | Kulkarni Chinmay | 2333 | 5023513 | 0,0 | |
| 3 | IM | Kathmale Sameer | 2330 | 5024498 | 0,0 | |
| 4 | Ramakrishnan Venkat | 2120 | 5013194 | 0,0 | ||
| 5 | Thakur Tanvi | 1185 | 25901389 | 0,0 | ||
Nihal will obviously play on the top board, followed by the CEO and Co-founder of Akshayakalpa - Shashi Kumar. The team's starting seed is 179.
| 179. Akshayakalpa Farms and Foods (RtgAvg:1480 / TB1: 0 / TB2: 0) Captain: Shashi Kumar | ||||||
| Bo. | Name | Rtg | FideID | Gr | Games | |
| 1 | GM | Sarin Nihal | 2620 | 25092340 | 0,0 | |
| 2 | Kumar Shashi | 1300 | 25660683 | 0,0 | ||
| 3 | Babu Rajesh | 1000 | 0,0 | |||
| 4 | Kadwekar Shraddha | 987 | 0,0 | |||
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Carlsen is not the only world champion taking part in this event, two former women's world champions - GM Mariya Muzychuk and GM Antoaneta Stefanova will also be seen in action.
Schedule
Pool matches (Friday 19th February and Saturday 20th February)
Eastern Zone:
8:30 p.m. IST
10:00 p.m. IST
11:30 p.m. IST
Western Zone:
7:00 a.m. IST (next day)
8:30 a.m. IST (next day)
10:00 a.m. IST (next day)
Knockout stage (Sunday 21st February)
8:30 p.m. IST (one match)
10:00 p.m. IST (one match)
11:30 p.m and 12:30 a.m. IST (duel)
Team-Starting rank
| No. | Team | RtgAvg | Group | Captain | |
| 1 | SBER | 2450 | E | Vladimir Vorozheykin | |
| 2 | Grenke Bank | 2427 | E | Georg Meier | |
| 3 | Morgan Stanley (HUN) | 2412 | E | Gabor Szamoskozi | |
| 4 | Sberbank Trade Union | 2396 | E | Vladimir Vorozheykin | |
| 5 | Microsoft Redmond | 2380 | W | Jasper Zaporteza | |
| 6 | BCG Gamma | 2370 | E | Vincent Riff | |
| 7 | Emphie Solutions | 2367 | E | Wojciech Reza | |
| 8 | Alkaloid | 2365 | E | Nikola Dimovski | |
| 9 | CSOB | 2361 | E | Martin Cerveny | |
| 10 | Paypal (BUL) | 2345 | E | Sergey Erenburg | |
| 11 | Rosseti Volga | 2339 | E | Alexey Lebedev | |
| 12 | PT Pelabuhan Tanjung Priok | 2334 | W | Muhammad Lutfi Ali | |
| 13 | Yandex | 2331 | E | Artur Vasilov | |
| 14 | Probit | 2320 | E | Jolanta Zawadzka | |
| 15 | American Express | 2316 | W | Mark Ginsburg |
Players list
| No. | Name | FideID | Rtg | Team | Bo. | |||
| 1 | GM | Carlsen Magnus | 1503014 | 2862 | Kindred | 1 | ||
| 2 | GM | Nepomniachtchi Ian | 4168119 | 2789 | SBER | 1 | ||
| 3 | GM | Giri Anish | 24116068 | 2764 | Optiver | 1 | ||
| 4 | GM | Artemiev Vladislav | 24101605 | 2709 | Aeroflot | 1 | ||
| 5 | GM | Wojtaszek Radoslaw | 1118358 | 2705 | WASKO | 1 | ||
| 6 | GM | Jakovenko Dmitry | 4122356 | 2684 | Yandex | 1 | ||
| 7 | GM | Korobov Anton | 14105730 | 2683 | Sberbank Trade Union | 1 | ||
| 8 | GM | Saleh Salem | 9301348 | 2682 | Emirates | 1 | ||
| 9 | GM | Malakhov Vladimir | 4120787 | 2665 | ALRUD Law Firm | 1 | ||
| 10 | GM | Abasov Nijat | 13402960 | 2664 | SOCAR | 1 | ||
| 11 | Lautier Joel | 600016 | 2658 | Sovcombank | 2 | |||
| 12 | GM | Meier Georg | 4675789 | 2628 | Grenke Bank | 1 | ||
| 13 | GM | Sarin Nihal | 25092340 | 2620 | Akshayakalpa Farms and Foods | 1 | ||
| 14 | GM | Smirin Ilia | 2801990 | 2614 | Slav Group | 1 | ||
| 15 | GM | Demchenko Anton | 4160258 | 2610 | Rosseti Kuban | 1 |
