in terms of having two really strong players stand out but they have had considerable depth for a while said anandand the other thing is that they are very good in chess olympiads so they play well as a team so we arent surprised by good chinese results any moreanand who became a grandmaster at 18 and remains in the world top 20 was playing in a chess league in germany when most international travel came to a halt in februaryhe kept himself busy following his favourite football team real madrid doing commentaries and leading india in the online nations cup before finally returning home in maybut despite the advances in technology he said it was impossible to replicate the tension and atmosphere of a live gameif you want to play you need that sense of being sitting there in the hall feeling that tension he said all those things i think i need to remember again it has been a very very long breakwe never had the world grind to a halt like this