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Global Chess League 2024 Player Draft: Vaishali R, Hou Yifan among top picks
The Daily Guardian
|August 13, 2024
The Global Chess League is all set for the second season as 30 of the world’s best chess players were handpicked by six franchises during the Player Draft held on Sunday in New Delhi.
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Following the huge success of the inaugural edition in Dubai last year, the second season is scheduled to take place from October 3-12 at Friends House in London.
All six teams - Alpine SG Pipers, Ganges Grandmasters, Mumba Masters, PBG Alaskan Knights, defending champions Triveni Continental Kings, and the debutants American Gambits- engaged in a thrilling bidding process to assemble strong squads for the second season, as per a release by Global Chess League.
With 1000 points allocated to use during the bidding process, each franchise filled their quota of two Superstar Men, two Superstar Women, and one Prodigy player, in addition to the Icons announced last month.
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