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The IIFL Wealth Open, which has several sections has just concluded in Mumbai. This has a special Under-13 section with Rs 800,000 in prizes and a total fund of above Rs 20 lakh

The Tata Steel Super GM gets underway this weekend in Wijk aan Zee, Holland. There are stellar fields in the two 14-player round robins. The Masters has Magnus Carlsen, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Ding Liren, Anish Giri, Vladimir Kramnik, Viswanathan Anand, Ian Nepomniachtchi,Teimour Radjabov, Jan-Krzysztof Duda, Richard Rapport, Sam Shankland, Vladimir Fedoseev, Vidit Gujrathi, and Jorden van Foreest. That’s three world champions, eight Top-20 players, and an average rating of 2753. 

The Challengers has an average rating of 2582.  Four youngsters worth watching would be world junior champion, Parham Maghsoodloo, Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa, German prodigy Vincent Keymer and Lucas van Foreest. There will