The Global Chess League Season 3 draft will be held in Mumbai on September 26. Six franchises will select from a 36-player pool, including world champions and rising stars, in the world’s only official gender-inclusive chess league.

HYDERABAD: The Global Chess League (GCL)—a joint initiative of Tech Mahindra and FIDE—will conduct its player draft in Mumbai on September 26 ahead of its third season in India.

Six franchises will vie to build powerhouse rosters from a 36-player pool featuring elite Grandmasters and rising talents from 17 chess-playing nations.

Headlining the Icon Boards are reigning World Champion D. Gukesh, five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand, Hikaru Nakamura, Fabiano Caruana, Alireza Firouzja, and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave. Anish Giri, R. Praggnanandhaa, Arjun Eriga

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