The WestBridge-Anand Chess Academy was founded by Indian chess grandmaster Viswanathan Anand in December 2020 in partnership with WestBridge Capital.[1] A fellowship program to mentor junior chess prodigies,[2][3][4] its founding instructors include grandmasters Sandipan Chanda, Artur Yusupov, Grzegorz Gajewski, and six-time world champion candidate Boris Gelfand, as well as Anand himself. (Amongst its alumni is Gukesh Dommaraju).[5] Institutionally it was inspired by Olympic Gold Quest, the Mikhail Chess Academy (more generally the Soviet school of chess), and the Frank P. Samford, Jr. Chess Fellowship of Stanford University. [6]
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- ^ "The Westbridge Anand Chess Academy will train 5 of India's biggest chess talents - ChessBase India". www.chessbase.in. December 22, 2020.
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