Prime Minister Narendra Modi obtained a particular present from chess star Vantika Agarwal throughout his assembly with the Chess Olympiad 2024 double gold winners. In the course of the assembly, PM Modi recalled that he organised the ‘Swarnim Chess Mahotsav’ as a part of his Khel Mahakumbh initiative again in 2010 when he was the Chief Minister of Gujarat. In 2012, he organised ‘Swami Vivekananda Mahila Chess Mahotsav’ in Gandhinagar which was attended by 3,500 girls chess gamers. Vantika additionally took half within the occasion and she or he gifted PM Modi with an image from that occasion.
The image confirmed PM Modi felicitating Vantika throughout the occasion and he expressed his happiness at receiving such a ‘particular’ present.
A beautiful interplay with the Indian chess contingent that gained the forty fifth FIDE Chess Olympiad. Do watch! https://t.co/1fALfjTOe7
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) September 26, 2024
Prime Minister Narendra Modi noticed a sport of bullet chess between two members of India’s forty fifth Chess Olympiad-winning crew, R Praggnanandhaa and Arjun Erigaisi, throughout a go to by the Indian males’s and girls’s chess groups to his residence on Wednesday.
Within the not too long ago concluded Chess Olympiad, India’s males’s and girls’s groups made historical past by securing gold medals for the primary time of their respective classes, becoming a member of the elite ranks of nations to have achieved a double gold in the identical version of the competitors.
Following this outstanding achievement, PM Modi met the Indian males’s and girls’s chess groups at his residence on Wednesday to have a good time their success on the Worldwide Chess Federation (FIDE) Chess Olympiad.
The Prime Minister shared a video on his official social media of Praggnanandhaa and Arjun taking part in bullet chess, captioning it: “Bullet Chess by two Grandmasters. Unimaginable! India’s chess future could be very vibrant.”
Within the males’s competitors, the USA secured second place, with Uzbekistan successful bronze. Within the girls’s competitors, Kazakhstan claimed the silver medal, and the USA took bronze.
Within the last spherical of the match, the Indian males’s team–comprising D Gukesh, R Praggnanandhaa, Arjun Erigaisi, Vidit Gujrathi, and Pentala Harikrishna–defeated Slovenia to clinch the gold medal. Victories from Gukesh and Arjun gave India a 2-0 lead, securing the gold. Praggnanandhaa later gained his sport, and Vidit drew his, leading to a 3.5-0.5 win for India.
In the meantime, the Indian girls’s team–featuring Harika Dronavalli, R Vaishali, Divya Deshmukh, Vantika Agarwal, and Tania Sachdev–also gained gold after beating Azerbaijan 3.5-0.5. Harika, Divya, and Vantika gained their respective matches within the last spherical, whereas Vaishali drew her sport towards Ulviyya Fataliyeva.
(With ANI inputs)
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