India’s two group gold medals and 4 particular person gold medals had been hailed as the start of the nation’s reign as “the perfect chess nation on the earth”.
Indian chess grandmasters created historical past by successful the lads’s and girls’s group gold medals on the forty fifth Worldwide Chess Federation (FIDE) Chess Olympiad in Budapest.
Aside from successful the group title, the Indian group additionally bagged 4 particular person gold medals, with the competitors ending within the Hungarian capital on Sunday.
Gukesh Dommaraju (popularly often called Gukesh D), Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa and Arjun Erigaisi bagged gold medals within the males’s occasion i.e. Open, whereas Harika Dronavalli, Vaishali Rameshbabu, Divya Deshmukh, Vantika Agrawal and Tania Sachdev bagged titles respectively to safe the ladies’s occasion competitors for the gold medal.
Gukesh, Erigaisi, Deshmukh and Agrawal bagged particular person gold medals of their respective rankings.
🇮🇳 India wins the forty fifth Chess Olympiad, successful each the Open and Girls’s competitions🏆
India has come a great distance since Vishy Anand paved the way in which for a brand new era of chess gamers. Younger expertise continues to emerge and grow to be world-class gamers. Guksh… pic.twitter.com/KvOVjAFx3I
— FIDE (@FIDE_chess) September 23, 2024
Indian chess grandmaster Viswanathan Anand referred to as the feat an “unimaginable” achievement.
“This can be a magical second for India,” the previous five-time world champion stated on the FIDE YouTube channel on the eve of the ultimate.
Anand, a two-time Chess World Cup champion, stated the achievement was just a few years within the making however India’s group and particular person honors exceeded his expectations.
The boys’s group received 27 of 44 video games, misplaced just one and drew six. Within the remaining spherical, they defeated Slovenia 3.5-0.5, and the ladies’s group defeated Azerbaijan by the identical rating.
Gukesh, who additionally certified for the World Chess Championship finals in November, stated he was completely satisfied his group crossed the end line in dominant style after a number of close to misses prior to now.
India shared the win with Russia within the 2020 males’s match, which was held on-line amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
“We’re actually pleased with how we labored collectively as a group,” Gukesh stated after the win.
The 18-year-old Deshmukh carried out properly within the girls’s class and stays unbeaten, successful seven of 11 video games and drawing 4.
“It began properly however received a bit troublesome within the center however I am happy with the way in which we dealt with it [the situation] and fought again,” she stated on the winner’s press convention.
“I really feel overwhelmed with emotion.”
Hungarian American chess grandmaster Susan Polgar praised Deshmukh’s efficiency within the match.
“Completely superb efficiency at this Olympics,” Polgar wrote in a put up on X.
The four-time world champion predicted extra wins for India, saying: “This group might be on the high for years to come back.”
Congratulations India! 2024 #budapestolympics champion! 🇮🇳 #FIIDE100 🥇🏆
As quickly as the ultimate began, they had been so targeted and decided! Though all of it requires teamwork, @DGukesh and @ArjunErigaisi There are loopy performances!
This group might be on the high for years to come back… pic.twitter.com/Sv5ZbOxYKV
— Susan Polgar (@SusanPolgar) September 22, 2024
Closing rating of the highest 10 groups on the 2024 FIDE Chess Olympiad
males
- India(21)
- United States(17)
- Uzbekistan(17)
- China(17)
- Serbia(17)
- Armenia(17)
- Germany(16)
- Azerbaijan(16)
- Slovenia(16)
- Spain(16)
feminine
- India(19)
- Kazakh(18)
- United States(17)
- Spain(17)
- Armenia(17)
- Georgia(17)
- China(16)
- Ukraine(16)
- Poland(16)
- Bulgaria(16)
