Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday lauded India’s younger chess gamers for his or her historic achievement on the forty fifth Chess Olympiad in Budapest, the place each the boys’s and girls’s groups clinched their maiden gold medals.
India made historical past on Sunday as the boys’s group defeated Slovenia and the ladies’s group triumphed over Azerbaijan within the remaining spherical, securing their first-ever gold medals on the prestigious occasion.
Within the males’s competitors, D Gukesh, Arjun Erigaisi, and R Praggnanandhaa secured decisive wins within the eleventh and remaining spherical.
The ladies’s group secured their gold by defeating Azerbaijan.
In a video shared on social media, Modi interacted with the chess champions, together with R Vaishali, D Harika, Tania Sachdev, Vidit Gujrathi, Arjun Erigaisi, and Praggnanandhaa.
VIDEO | PM Modi (@narendramodi) met the Indian group, that received Chess Olympiad, at his residence in New Delhi earlier right this moment.
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D Gukesh, the star of the event, received 10 out of 11 rounds within the Open class, taking part in a vital position in India’s victory.
Throughout the interplay, the gamers offered the Prime Minister with a chessboard, after which Praggnanandhaa and Erigaisi performed a fast sport of chess, which left Modi spellbound.
Earlier, the Sports activities Ministry shared a video of the Indian chess contingent leaving their resort and heading to fulfill the Prime Minister.
The Indian males’s group completed with a formidable 21 out of twenty-two potential factors in Budapest, conceding just one draw (2-2) in opposition to Uzbekistan whereas defeating the remainder of their opponents.