Chess legend Viswanathan Anand on Sunday said the country has many immensely talented players at the junior level and one of them can “hopefully” become a world champion in future.
“There are many people with a lot of promise at junior level. R Praggnanandhaa, Nihal Sarin, D Gukesh, they’re very good and motivated. They have been travelling around playing tournaments, they have the determination. Hopefully one of them cracks the code,” Anand said.
He was responding to a question on who among the young Indians could go on to become a world champion in future.
The five-time world champion was participating in an online interaction ‘Chat with Vishy - Viswanathan Anand’ with the participants of the training programme he conducts.