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World chess champion Magnus Carlsen unveils online series of tournaments with $1 million prize purse
•The Norwegian was absent when the World Chess Federation (FIDE) held an online Nations Cup between Russia, United States, Europe, China, India and a Rest of the World team
Former world champion Viswanathan Anand to lead India in Online Nations Cup
•The preliminary entry list includes three generations of the best players: from 50-year-old Anand (multiple-time world champion and still in the world's top-20) to the newest chess phenomenon, the 16-year-old Iranian GM Alireza Firouzja
International Chess Federation Vice-President Nigel Short accuses All India Chess Federation of being 'anti-player'
•Short, a British Grandmaster, was responding to a question on restoring the ratings of chess players who were banned by the AICF for participating in unrecognised tournaments