India's pistol coach Pavel Smirnov will not accompany the 28-member national shooting squad to Croatia today due to delay in visa process.<br />'' <br />''As many as 13 shooters in the squad will attend an Olympic camp in the European country.<br />'' <br />''Due to the pandemic, the National Rifle Association of India has arranged a charter flight to Europe to minimise risk of contracting coronavirus.<br />'' <br />''In Smirnov's absence, assistant coach Ved Prakash will oversee training of the Tokyo Olympic-bound pistol team.<br />'' <br />''Both Samresh Jung, the high-performance national pistol coach, and Jaspal Rana, junior national pistol coach, had earlier expressed their inability to accompany the team due to family problems.<br />'' <br />''Rahi Sarnobat, the 2018 Asian Games champion in women's 25 metre pistol, said she is mature enough to work without a coach during Zagreb camp. All five rifle coaches including foreign expert Oleg Mikhailov are going with the team, confirmed a rifle coach.<br />'' <br />''The national team will also compete in the European Shooting Championships scheduled to be held in Osijek from May 21 and Zagreb World Cup in June. Deepak Kumar, Divyansh Singh Panwar, Sanjeev Rajput, Aishwary Pratap Tomar, Apurvi Chandela, Anjum Moudgil, Elavenil Valarivan and Tejaswini Sawant have qualified for Olympics in rifle shooting events.<br />'' <br />''The pistol shooting team consists of Abhishek Verma, Saurabh Chaudhary, Manu Bhaker, Rahi Sarnobat and Yashaswini Singh. Five-time chess world champion Vishwanathan Anand and four other Indian Grandmasters will play simultaneous online exhibition matches against other chess players on Thursday to raise funds for Covid-19 relief in the country.<br />'' <br />''Koneru Humpy, Dronavalli Harika, Nihal Sarin and Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu are the four other Indian GMs who will be taking part in the event. Any player who has a FIDE standard rating of under 2000 can play with Anand by donating $150 and with four other GMs by donating $25.<br />'' <br />''All the proceeds from the simultaneous exhibitions involving Anand, Koneru, Harika, Nihal Sarin and Rameshbabu will go to Red Cross India and the Checkmate COVID initiative of the All-India Chess Federation.<br />