Sports news

PM Modi met Chess Olympiad winners: Players gifted chess boards; won gold in both categories for the first time in 97 years


Sports Desk10 minutes ago

  • copy link

Today PM Modi met the players who won gold medals for India in the Chess Olympiad. For the first time in the 97-year history of the Olympiad, India has won gold in both the open and women’s categories. At the same time, today at 7 pm, the All India Chess Federation will honor the players in Delhi.

From the Indian women’s team, D Harika, Vaishali Rameshbabu, Divya Deshmukh, Tania Sachdeva and Vantika Agarwal were present. While from the men’s team, D. Gukesh, R. Praggnanandhaa, Arjun Erigaisi, Vidit Gujarati and Harikrishna Pentala reached to meet PM Modi.

3 photos of meeting with PM Modi…

During the meeting, PM Modi watched the chess match between R. Praggnanandhaa and Arjun Erigaisi.

During the meeting, PM Modi watched the chess match between R. Praggnanandhaa and Arjun Erigaisi.

PM Modi talking to chess players.

PM Modi talking to chess players.

Vidit Gujarati spoke to PM Modi.

Vidit Gujarati spoke to PM Modi.

India had confirmed the gold after the 10th round In the open category, India had confirmed the first position after the 10th round, but the women’s team’s gold was confirmed after the 11th round. Because the second-ranked Kazakhstan team played a 2-2 draw against the USA. Due to this, India remained first with 19 points and Kazakhstan remained second with 18 points. The Chess Olympiad was held in Budapest, Hungary from 10 September.

Divya Deshmukh won the 10th and 11th rounds.

Divya Deshmukh won the 10th and 11th rounds.

The open team remained undefeated in the tournament The Open team had confirmed the gold by securing 19 points after the 10th round. After winning 8 matches in a row, the team played a draw against Uzbekistan. Then the team won the gold by defeating America in the 10th round and Slovenia in the 11th round.

In the last round, Gukesh Domaraju, R Praggnanandhaa and Arjun Irigasi from India won their respective matches. Vidit Santosh Gujrati played a draw and took the team’s score to 3.5. India won the 11th round and got 21 points. While China and America remained at second place with 16-16 points.

Arjun had ensured gold for India by winning the last match in the 10th round of the open category.

Arjun had ensured gold for India by winning the last match in the 10th round of the open category.

The first Chess Olympiad was held in 1927 The first Chess Olympiad was held in 1924, although it was an unofficial event. The International Chess Federation (FIDE) then started organizing official Chess Olympiads from 1927. The Olympiad was held every year until 1950, it was not held during the World War. But after 1950 it started being held once every two years. The 45th Chess Olympiad was held in Budapest, Hungary.

There is more news…



Source link


Discover more from Divya Bharat 🇮🇳

Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.