GCL: Battle of the brains in the Garden City
The Global Chess League (GCL) is hosting its fourth edition in Bengaluru, India, featuring top international players like Magnus Carlsen. The tournament is noted for its unique rules, such as no increments for the first 40 moves and a scoring system that rewards wins with black pieces.
Why it matters
The event highlights the growing intersection of professional sports and the technology sector in India's major IT hub.
No sport is driven by IT as much as chess. No city in India is bigger for IT than Bengaluru. It is only apt then that the Global Chess League has come to the Garden City that houses the world’s leading technology firms.
The world’s leading chess players have assembled here for the fourth edition of the GCL – a joint venture of Tech Mahindra and world chess governing body FIDE -- that opens at the Lalit Ashok here on Saturday. It is the second time that the planet’s most glamorous chess league is being held in India. Season 3 was conducted in Mumbai after Dubai and London played hosts in the first two years.
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