Chennai: Vishwanathan Anand will take on Grand Masters Peter Heine Nielsen and Curt Hansen and GM Jonny Hector at the SIS-MH masters tournament at Middelfart in Denmark from April 4-6.

A press release from Anand's sponsors said that it would be a double round event with rapid games. The arbiter would be IA Martin Noer.

In a VIP simultaneous display on April 4, Anand would meet celebrities from Danish society, headed by former foreign minister Niels Helveg Petersen, a chess player of considerable strength,' the internationally famous violinist Kim Sjogren and political commentator Peter Lautrup Larsen, also a chess master, the release said.

The Danish television station DR2 would make a 30 minute capsule, to be included in a programme on April 14, with chess as the theme. The last of several chess related programmes would be the movie 'searching for Bobby Fischer', it said.

The event is being organised by the 'Union in Support of Danish Chess' to celebrate its 40 years of existence.

PTI