India, Aug. 10 -- Considered to be one of the best in faster formats of chess, Nihal Sarin is attempting to shift his focus to classical chess. The Indian Grandmaster has now moved to D Gukesh's former trainer, GM Vishnu Prasanna. Prasanna was Gukesh's trainer until Grzegorz Gajewski took over in 2022.

He has been working with Nihal since March this year, and their main work has been on improving the youngster's classical rating, so that he performs well in the FIDE Grand Swiss and the FIDE World Cup later this year.

Speaking to ESPN, his new trainer said, "We're trying to figure out what can we do to make him show results based on the way he approaches chess, based on his talent."

Meanwhile, Nihal also conducts most of his training on...