Anand predicts tough times for menâ^À^Ùs team

Press Trust of India
Tuesday, September 14, 2004 at 0014 hours IST

MUMBAI, SEPTEMBER 13: World rapid chess champion Viswanathan Anand
today said it would be a tough task for the Indian menâ^À^Ùs team to
win a medal at the forthcoming Olympiad at Spain as they would be up
against some strong opposition.

â^À^ÜWe will be playing some top chess playing countries like Russia,
Israel, Ukraine, USA and Armenia among others and it will be a tough
task for us to win a medal as all the members of the team will have
to do well consistently,â^À^Ý Anand told reporters here.

â^À^ÜCompared to the menâ^À^Ùs team, the womenâ^À^Ùs team has a
better chance of winning a medal as they not only have a very good
team but their opponents too are not as formidable as in the menâ^À^Ùs
field,â^À^Ý Anand said.

Touching on various topics, the champion said that his next important
assignments are to see that his team does well at the Olympiad and
to win the Chess Oscar.

On his recent performances this year, Anand said, â^À^ÜThis year has
been very good for me and I hope it will continue for some time. I
think I did pretty well to win the Corus Grandmasters tournament in
Wijk Aan Zee and then the Dortmund chess and Mainz chess in Germany
which had chess greats like Garry Kasparov and Vladimir Kramnik in
the fray.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress