ChessLed by Grandmaster Krishnan Sasikiran, the seven-member Indian team, which included P Harikrishna, Surya Shekhar Ganguly, Abhijeet Gupta and Parimarjan Negi left with high hopes for the chess World Cup.
The mega event also had other big names like Vassily Ivanchuk of Ukraine and Alexei Shirov of Russia.
The tournament started well as Parimarjan Negi stunned a higher rated Vadim Milov of Switzerland but it proved to be the only bright spot of the tournament as a losing streak after saw the Indians follow each other out of the tournament soon after.