By IANS
New Delhi : Four Grandmasters will be playing simultaneously against 150 players as part of the inaugural ceremony of the sixth Parsvnath International Chess tournament at the Modern School, Barakhamba Road, starting Saturday.
The field, which comprises 15 Grandmasters and over 40 titled players, will have more than 400 participants from 20 countries vying for a record prize pool of Rs.1 million.
The field will also include Commonwealth champion R.B. Ramesh and Georgia-born Spaniard Elizbar Ubilava, former trainer of Viswanathan Anand.
The top seed will be Iran’s Ghaem Maghami Ehsan and the other Iranian Grandmaster in the fray is Mahjoob Morteza.
Ziaur Rahman will lead the Bangladeshi challenge in the 10-round event while Grandmaster Igor Kurnosov will represent the Russian interest.
Besides, there are three Grandmasters from Uzbekistan Saidali Iuldashev, Marat Dzhumaev and Safin Shukhrat.