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The Grand Chess Tour: Indian chess Grandmaster R Praggnanandhaa, who recently competed at the FIDE Candidates in Canada for the first time, stressed on the need for corporate sponsors in an sport of Chess where training may seem "easy and cheap" but in reality its "very expensive".

Praggnanandhaa, who enter a long term sponsorship agreement with Adani Group earlier this year, is currently in Poland participating in the Rapid and Blitz tournament.

Talking about his time in Canada, he said, "The experience was very good. It is a big tournament where the pressure is huge. In terms of the result, I played better than I scored. I must learn from what went wrong and focus on future tournaments."