WestBridge-Anand Chess Academy

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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