Kasparov coming over on Nov 11

Kasparov, who will be in India for a conference at Goa on November 8, will hop across to Chennai for a couple of days and is likely to be present during the third game to be played on November 12 at the Hyatt.

"I'm participating at the THiNK conference in Goa (Nov 8-10) then at Anand-Carlsen match 11-12 in Chennai...," Kasparov tweeted. The former world number one and the first to scale the 2850 ELO rating mark in chess, Kasparov had paid a visit to Moscow last year too when Anand had beaten Boris Gelfand of Israel.

Anand had been criticized by Kasparov during the cha0mpionship's sixth match wherein the Russian was one of the guests. "What I think with Vishy is that he has lost motivation," Kasparov had said during the match. Anand had lost the seventh game, recovered to win the eighth and the match in tiebreakers.

"Kasparov lost his match in 2000 (to Kramnik) and retired in 2005. Then since 2011, he has been trying to make me retire too. He is perhaps missing the attention he used to get as the World champion," Anand had retorted after the match.

Kasparov's presence will obviously raise a few eyebrows as he is standing up against current FIDE administration in the next elections in 2014.

Interestingly, there are wide speculations that Kasparov has also worked for Carlsen for the match against Anand. According to a recent article by Grandmaster Nigel Short, Kasparov and Carlsen have joined hands again and teamed up for the match against Anand.

It may be recalled that Kasparov had trained Carlsen previously too but the Norwegian had found the Russian to be too demanding and bossy. It was an amicable split though when they parted with mutual consent.