‘If it is a joke, then it is the most expensive joke anyone has ever played on me’: How Samay Raina’s challenge led Anand Mahindra to launch a chess league
A comedian made a casual suggestion. A businessman took it seriously. And a few years later, the result was a global chess league.Anand Mahindra has revealed the rather unexpected story behind the Global Chess League, tracing its beginnings to a challenge from comedian Samay Raina during an online interaction in 2020.Mahindra jokingly calls it the […]
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