Dr. Sivaram Ambikarasan from the Department of Data Science & AI at IITM emphasized the need for a comprehensive digital platform for chess that could engage fans, train players, and provide educational resources.
Dr. Sivaram Ambikarasan from the Department of Data Science and AI at IIT Madras, who holds a PhD. in computational and mathematical engineering, a master바카라™s degree in statistics from Stanford University and is an accomplished chess player, delivered an inspiring and thought-provoking vision talk on technology that India needs to adopt to become a global chess powerhouse.
But why chess of all sports? To give a quick context, Dr. Sivaram explained how India is in a fairly good space in terms of chess. 바카라śWe have four Indians among the top 10 players worldwide. We have a lot more youngsters playing chess. Chess ranks third in popularity among the sports viewed by Indians online, with cricket being the first, followed by football,바카라ť he said.
Elucidating the plan, he said, 바카라śThe starting point could be building a one-stop digital destination for chess, which also includes having one India-specific chess server.바카라ť The digital destination will have cutting-edge tech features and a light and unplugged interface to facilitate players바카라™ coming aboard and playing and allow fans to better engage with the game. According to him, the need of the hour is to build a robust tool to ensure power play, which ensures that players play a fair game and that there바카라™s no scope for cheating. 바카라śWe also plan on conducting online premium tournaments with enough safeguards to prevent cheating,바카라ť he added.
The next agenda aligns with the All India Chess Federation, which is to have an India-specific rating system because the existing rating system has a lot of flaws. 바카라śOur players are underrated because we don바카라™t go overseas much, and then we don바카라™t play much. Based on the rating system, we바카라™d also like to have titles for Indian players,바카라ť he said.
The digital platform will also engage title players to generate chess content, such as commentary, puzzles, tactics, etc. and deliver chess courses online. He pointed out that 바카라śwhen you look at the number of books written on each sport, chess wins by a huge part. There are tons and tons of books written on chess.바카라ť He wants to use this vast resource and make all the content available online by offering chess courses via NPTEL or the Swayam platform. 바카라śWe바카라™d like to get the help of the grandmaster and other title players and involve them in developing a strong ecosystem and ensure that the financial benefit is shared with them, too,바카라ť he added.
He is keen to set up online academies for chess coaching to address the issues in a large country like ours where resources are always scarce. 바카라śChess is ideally suited for online lectures and delivering content. We want to offer online video courses and an immersive digital environment by teaming up with Indian title players and providing certification. We are also working on automatic translation to various languages so that in the long term, we have these courses in various Indian languages,바카라ť he stated.
He envisions streaming all these premium tournaments worldwide. 바카라śWe also want to offer a wide range of plugins and analytics tools so streamers can decide which is more appropriate for their needs. We have a tool to detect whether a person is cheating,바카라ť he explained. There바카라™s a possibility of lots of analytics in chess, and all of these can be tweaked according to the player, the viewer, or the fan, depending on whether the player or viewer is a beginner, an expert player, or an intermediate player.