Five Indian Players Face Visa Refusals In The International Chess Match That Will Take Place In The Mexico City.
Five players from India with their two coaches missed out on the FIDE Junior Chess Championship that is going to organise in Mexico. The team members did not get their visas on time, even after the efforts of legal authorities.
FIDE World Junior Chess Championship 2023 will held in the City Of Mexico, and the competition will be organised from 22 September to 2 October 2023.
The names of players who did not get the visas are Vrashank Chouhan, Arun Kataria, Bhagyashree Patil, Prraneeth Vuppala and Femil Chelladurai, and the coaches are Pravind Thipsay M and Kiran Agrawal.
Bharat Singh Chouhan, FIDE Advisory board chairman, said he witnessed this sort of condition for the very first time in his Chess career. The Indian players will face a huge setback as they are not getting the visas. The players are medal holders. According to Bhagat Singh, visa issues arose from the Mexican Embassy.
CRG Krishna (male) and Tarini Goyal (female) are the two coaches who replaced the earlier coaches. They are travelling with the teams because they have valid US Visas that are acceptable in Mexico.
In the annual event organised at Italian island of Sardinia in the last year, 13 Indian performers participate in the competition, out of which 10 were boys and 3 are girls.
In the event, three countries ranked- first was the Russia, the top-ranked performer, then China got the second position, while India achieved the third position, that remains constant till 2019.