Viswanathan Anand Freestyle Sort of Grand Slam while Magnus Carlsen-Fide-Fide Diskates Dégeneère-Firstpost

In the midst of the in progress controversy between the World Chess Federation (Fide) and Freestyle Chess Operations in co -ownership of Magnus Carlsen, the legend of Indian chess Viswanathan Anand with the next Tour of the Grand Slam of Chess Freestyle. Anand, who is also the vice-president of Fide, was part of the first stage of the Grand Slam Tour with the best chess players in the world, including the world n ° 1 Carlsen, the champions of the chess of the world of Gukesh, Fabiano Caruana, Hikaru Nakamura, Alireza Firouzja, Nodirbek Abdusattorov, Levon Aronian, Vincent Keymer and Vladimir Fedoseev.

The Tour of Grand Chelem Freestyle 2025 will take place in five editions in five cities, the first taking place in Wangels (Germany) from February 7 to 14. The Grand Chelem visit will also take place in Paris, New York, New Delhi and Cape Town.

In the middle of the confrontation of Carlsen-Fide, Anand withdraws from the great Chem Slamm Freestyle

The organizers of the tournament, the Freestyle and Fide chess operations have been locked in a longtime battle on the use of the term “world champion” for the Grand Chelem winner. Recently, Fide accused Freestyle chess operations of provoking a division into the world of chess and threatened legal action if they called their “world championship” competition.

Freestyle chess operations, on the other hand, accused Fide of having demanded $ 500,000 per year to approve competition. Carlsen also said that Fide more needed him than he needed the body of chess and that he will not accept something that he feels badly.

In the middle of the controversy, Freestyle chess operations announced that the five -time world champion and former n ° 1 of the world Viswanathan Anand with the first Grand Slam in Germany. “Viswanathan Anand has retired within a short time,” said a declaration on their website.

The 19 -year -old Grand Master in Uzbekistan, Javokhir Sindarov, will replace Anand in the inaugural leg of the Grand Slam of Freestyle’s failure,

The new world chess champion Gukesh, who is currently heading the classification to the prestigious Tata Steel Chess 2025, continues to be part of the great chem of Freestyle Chess and will face Carlsen next month.