Adani Group chairman, Gautam Adani on Monday prolonged good needs to the Indian chess workforce for his or her triumph on the forty fifth Chess Olympiad in Budapest. India displayed a stupendous efficiency to assert two gold medals in each males’s and girls’s occasions on Sunday. Within the remaining spherical of the event, India’s males workforce of D Gukesh, R Praggnanandhaa, Arjun Erigaisi, Vidit Gujrathi and Pentala Harikrishna shined over Slovenia to clinch the gold medal. It was the wins from D Gukesh and Arjun Erigaisi which gave India to a 2-0 lead and confirmed the gold medal.
“What a historic second for India! Congratulations to each the Males’s and Girls’s groups for clinching GOLD on the 2024 Chess Olympiad! “India is again to dominating the very sport of Chaturanga (Chess) that was born on this land. A proud return to our roots!” wrote Gautam Adani on X.
What a historic second for India! Congratulations to each the Males’s and Girls’s groups for clinching GOLD on the 2024 Chess Olympiad! 🇮🇳 India is again to dominating the very sport of Chaturanga (Chess) that was born on this land. A proud return to our roots! #ChessOlympiad… https://t.co/2GICJSeOJM
— Gautam Adani (@gautam_adani) September 23, 2024
Later within the remaining spherical, Praggnandhaa additionally received his sport and Vidit ended her bout with a draw. India defeated Slovenia 3.5-0.5 to seal the gold medal.
In the meantime, the Indian girls’s chess workforce of Harika Dronavalli, R Vaishali, Divya Deshmukh, Vantika Agarwal, and Tania Sachdev additionally received gold after beating Azerbaijan 3.5-0.5.
Harika Dronavalli, Divya Deshmukh, and Vantika Agrawal received their respective matches within the remaining spherical. Whereas, R Vaishali drew her match towards Ulviyya Fataliyeva.
In accordance with ESPN, the ladies’s workforce improved their bronze medal from the Chennai Olympiad in 2022, which was their first.
“India beats Azerbaijan 3,5-0,5! Girls’s #ChessOlympiad | Spherical 11 All eyes are on Kazakhstan vs USA. If Kazakhstan prevails, they are going to tie for first with India. Then every part might be determined in tie-breaks,” the Worldwide Chess Federation wrote on X.
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— Worldwide Chess Federation (@FIDE_chess) September 22, 2024
Earlier within the tenth spherical of the Chess Olympiad, Indian males’s workforce defeated USA by 2.5-1.5.
D Gukesh, India’s FIDE Candidates event winner, received towards Fabiano Caruana by 1-0 to begin issues off.
Although the prodigious R Praggnanadhaa recorded a uncommon failure towards Wesley So by 0-1, India bounced again within the spherical with Arjun Erigaisi’s 1-0 win towards Leinier Perez whereas Vidit Gujrathi had a 0.5-0.5 draw towards Levon Aronian.
Earlier than this, Indian males’s workforce had received eight rounds in a row earlier than their streak got here to an finish with a attract ninth spherical. India sits on the high of the desk with 19 match factors after 10 rounds.
India’s earlier finest performances within the Chess Olympiad embody two bronze medals in 2014 and 2022. In an internet Olympiad again in 2020 throughout COVID-19 although, India shared the gold with Russia.
(With ANI Inputs)
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