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Chennai: Two Chennai companies - Microsense, promoted by a former chess champion, and Animaker floated by an amateur player - are looking at providing their services for the upcoming Chess Olympiad to be held at Tamil Nadu's Mahabalipuram. The $10 million budget Chess Olympiad will be held in July-August and is said to be the largest sporting event to be hosted by India with over 150 countries expected to participate. The Microsense Networks promoted by S. Kailasanathan, a former Champion of Tamil Nadu and who has also played for West Bengal and Delhi, is looking at providing internet connectivity for the Olympiad broadcast and also at the hotel rooms where the players and other officials will be staying. A major supporter of Indian chess sponsoring several young chess players, Microsense also organised coaching camps for upcoming Indian chess players roping in two chess legends -- former world champion Grandmaster (GM) M. Vladimir Borisovich Kramnik and GM Boris Gelfand. The company is majorly into offering WiFi connectivity in major hotel chains in India, residential apartments, and others. "There will be more than 150 teams participating in the Olympiad. Each team will have four players playing. All the chess boards are digital ones and are to be connected to the Internet for broadcast worldwide," Kailasanathan, Chairman, Microsense Group told IANS. According to him, the company is already providing WiFi connectivity in many of the hotels where the chess players are going to be housed. "We are an ISP (Internet Service Provider) providing the end-to-end WiFi services in the hotels-like bandwidth provision and the software for guest login and usage," Kailasanathan said. In the hotels where Microsense is not currently present he ...