Former world chess champion Garry Kasparov showered reward on the Indian crew for historic double gold in each the lads’s and ladies’s occasions on the 2024 Chess Olympiad. In a historic triumph, India’s males’s and ladies’s groups clinched gold medals for the primary time within the forty fifth Chess Olympiad on Sunday. Led by the stellar performances of D Gukesh and Arjun Erigaisi, the lads’s crew secured the gold medal after an exhilarating remaining spherical victory over Slovenia. The ladies’s crew comprising Harika Dronavalli, Vaishali Rameshbabu, Divya Deshmukh, Vantika Agrawal, Tania Sachdev, and Abhijit Kunte, additionally secured the gold medal, beating Azerbaijan 3.5-0.5 to clinch the title.
“A really spectacular double gold achievement by India. “Vishy’s youngsters” are all grown up and chess is coming house! Two American flags on the podiums as nicely, worthy of be aware. Add Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, with no European flags,” Kasparov posted on X.
A really spectacular double gold achievement by India. “Vishy’s youngsters” are all grown up and chess is coming house! Two American flags on the podiums as nicely, worthy of be aware. Add Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, with no European flags. https://t.co/0lK4HGLpDm
— Garry Kasparov (@Kasparov63) September 23, 2024
The lads’s crew of Gukesh D, Praggnanandhaa R, Arjun Erigaisi, Vidit Gujrathi, and Harikrishna Pentala, with Srinath Narayanan because the captain, led all through the match, profitable 10 matches and drawing only one. Earlier than the final spherical, they had been 2 factors forward of China.
Within the remaining spherical, India solely wanted a draw to clinch the gold medals or for China to not win their match. Nonetheless, India continued to press for a win and defeated Slovenia 3.5-0.5.
The ladies’s crew had a really sturdy begin, main the occasion after 7 rounds, having received all their matches. They stumbled in spherical 8, dropping to Poland after which drawing with Workforce USA, however made a robust end. Going into the ultimate spherical, India was tied for first with Kazakhstan, and the race for the medals was all the way down to the wire.
The crew of Harika Dronavalli, Vaishali R, Divya Deshmukh, Vantika Agrawal, and Tania Sachdev, with Abhijit Kunte because the captain, demonstrated wonderful composure and delivered, profitable the ultimate match in opposition to Azerbaijan 3.5-0.5. On the similar time, Kazakhstan solely drew with the USA 2-2, making India the only real winners of the occasion.
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