India, Aug. 12 -- Chess has evolved over the years, and now we have many different formats in the sport. Other than classical, blitz and rapid formats have also been gaining plenty of attention. Meanwhile, even Chess960 has found itself in the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour.

Recently, Viswanathan Anand urged players to focus on all formats 'mentally', and also used D Gukesh as an example in his statement.

Speaking to reporters at the sidelines of the Chennai Grandmasters, he said, "The simplest way to say it is that they shouldn't rule out any format mentally."

"In a sense, you won't probably have good results in all the formats, in all the years but I don't think you're assured of one format either. I mean Gukesh has had a bad Classi...