Abhijit Kunte on chess eras: From waiting six months for chess books to teenagers who play 10-second blitz games
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Abhijit Kunte is a man who has seen eras change. The man who became India’s fourth Grandmaster has tales of fine-tuning his chess from Russian books that arrived via sea and chess lines that would be written or photocopied in files as part of competition prep.Last year, he was part of the coaching set-up for the Indian team at the Chess Olympiad. Currently, he’s the manager for the Balan Alaskan Knights team in the inaugural season of the Global Chess League, which has some big names like Ian Nepomniachtchi and Teimour Radjabov along with promising stars like Raunak Sadhwani and Nodirbek Abdusattorov.He spoke to The Indian Express from Dubai about how things were back in his era. And the new era in sport, that’s been ushered in by the GCL. Excerpts:
You’re someone who has seen the...