Anand - Carlsen Opening Ceremony

This fortnight's Video Friday falls one day after the ceremony opening the Anand - Carlsen World Championship match and one day before the first game of the match. I watched the ceremony yesterday and am pleased to present it on this blog. Much of it is in English and it is a wonderful celebration of chess.

FIDE World Chess Championship 2013 - Inaugural Ceremony - Live from Chennai! (1:56:52) • 'Streamed live on Nov 7, 2013'

The description added,

Catch the inaugural ceremony of the FIDE World Chess Championship 2013 live from Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Chennai. The inauguration [was] presided by Honourable Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu Ms. J Jayalalitha. Catch all the matches live and exclusive here on youtube.com/aicfofficial.

AICF stands for the 'All India Chess Federation'. A crore rupee is 10.000.000 rupees, currently about US$ 160.000.