5-time world champion Viswanathan Anand on Sunday led the nation’s sporting fraternity in hailing the Indian women and men’s groups for his or her historic gold medal successful feat on the Chess Olympiad in Budapest. India made historical past as each its males’s and girls’s groups clinched first-ever gold medals on the forty fifth Chess Olympiad. The boys’s workforce defeated Slovenia and the ladies’s aspect prevailed over Azerbaijan within the closing spherical.
“Congrats to Workforce India for successful the final spherical as properly! Sensational @DGukesh and @ArjunErigaisi, but additionally congrats to @viditchess on a powerful outcome. Nice captaincy by @srinathchess,” Anand wrote on ‘X’, previously Twitter.
Congrats to Workforce India for successful the final spherical as properly! Sensational @DGukesh and @ArjunErigaisi, but additionally congrats to @viditchess on a powerful outcome. Nice captaincy by @srinathchess.@FIDE_chess https://t.co/RYQsUT4zYw
— Viswanathan Anand (@vishy64theking) September 22, 2024
“Congrats to India’s Girls’s workforce. Nice outcome by the entire workforce and captain @chessgmkunte and a particular point out to @DivyaDeshmukh05 and to @vantikachess for her efficiency.”
The boys’s workforce secured 3.5-0.5 victory over Slovenia within the eleventh and closing spherical with wins from D Gukesh, Arjun Erigaisi and R Praggnanandhaa. The ladies’s workforce sealed an an identical 3.5-0.5 win in opposition to Azerbaijan, finishing a historic double for India.
The Indian males had beforehand received bronze medals in 2014 and 2022, whereas the ladies’s workforce had claimed bronze within the 2022 version held in Chennai.
Sports activities Minister Mansukh Mandaviya additionally lauded the historic achievement.
“India makes Historical past in Chess! Large congratulations to our Males’s Chess workforce – @DGukesh, @ArjunErigaisi, @praggchess, @viditchess, and @HariChess for successful GOLD on the Chess Olympiad,” Mandaviya tweeted.
“That is India’s FIRST-EVER win on this prestigious occasion! Our chess heroes have made India proud, showcasing their brilliance and laborious work on the worldwide stage!”
India makes Historical past in Chess!
Large congratulations to our Males’s Chess workforce – @DGukesh, @ArjunErigaisi, @praggchess, @viditchess, and @HariChess for successful GOLD on the Chess Olympiad
That is India’s FIRST-EVER win on this prestigious occasion!
Our chess heroes have made India… pic.twitter.com/TBBEBYfIPW
— Dr Mansukh Mandaviya (@mansukhmandviya) September 22, 2024
Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura of the USA recommended five-time world champion Anand for uplifting the following era of chess gamers in India.
“It’s really unfathomable how this child would come from a rustic with no chess tradition and never solely grow to be World Champion, however encourage generations of Indian youngsters to push chess ahead. The legend, @vishy64theking!” Nakamura tweeted.
“Large congratulations to India for successful the @ChessOlympiad! “Wrapping up the Olympiad recaps and nothing however reward for each of India’s groups dominating the occasion. @vishy64theking’s legacy is secured!”.
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