PM Modi met Chess Olympiad winners
Today PM Modi met the players who won the gold medal for India in the Chess Olympiad. For the first time in the 97-year history of the Olympiad, India has won gold in both open and women’s categories. At the same time, All India Chess Federation will honor the players in Delhi today at 7 pm. (PM Modi met Chess Olympiad winners)
The Indian women’s team included D Harika, Vaishali Rameshbabu, Divya Deshmukh, Tania Sachdeva and Vantika Agarwal. While from the men’s team D. Gukesh, R. Praggnananda, Arjun Erigaysi, Vidit Gujarati and Harikrishna Pantala reached to meet PM Modi.(PM Modi met Chess Olympiad winners)
3 photos of meeting PM Modi…
During the meeting, PM Modi Saw the chess match of Praggnananda and Arjun Erigaysi.
PM Modi talking to chess players.
Vidit Gujarati spoke to PM Modi.
India had confirmed the gold only after the 10th round. In the open category, India had confirmed the first position only 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 America. Due to this, India stood first with 19 points and Kazakhstan stood second with 18 points. The Chess Olympiad took place in Budapest, Hungary from 10 September.(PM Modi met Chess Olympiad winners)
Divya Deshmukh won the 10th and 11th rounds.
Open team remained unbeaten in the tournament The open team had confirmed the gold after the 10th round itself by scoring 19 points. The team played a draw against Uzbekistan after winning 8 consecutive matches. Then in the 10th round the team won gold by defeating America and in the 11th round by defeating Slovenia. (PM Modi met Chess Olympiad winners)
In the last round, Gukesh Domaraju, R Praggnananda and Arjun Irigasi from India won their respective matches. Whereas Vidit Santosh Gujarati played a draw and took the team’s score to 3.5. India won the 11th round and gained 21 points. While China and America stood second with 16 points each.
Arjun had secured India’s gold 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 organized in 1924, although it was an unofficial event. The International Chess Federation (FIDE) then started organizing official Chess Olympiads from 1927. The Olympiad took place every year until 1950; it was not organized during the World War. But since 1950 it started being organized once every 2 years. The 45th Chess Olympiad was held in Budapest, Hungary.
