General India Script History By Winning Rare Double Gold At Chess Olympiad 2024

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India achieved a massive feat after winning a rare double gold at the Chess Olympiad 2024​

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• Updated: September 22, 2024 07:55 PM IST

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rare double gold at the Chess Olympiad 2024.​

• Press Trust of India​
• Updated: September 22, 2024 07:55 PM IST​

Read Time: 2 min​

India on Sunday scripted history as its men's and women's teams clinched their maiden gold medals in the 45th Chess Olympiad after beating their respective opponents in the final round. The men's team defeated Slovenia after D Gukesh, Arjun Erigaisi and R Praggnanadhaa won their respective matches in the 11th and final round match. The women's team beat Azerbaijan 3.5-0.5 to clinch the title. Indian men had earlier won two bronze -- in 2014 and 2022 -- in the tournament. Indian women had won a bronze in the 2022 edition in Chennai. World Championship challenger Gukesh and Arjun Erigaise yet again delivered in key games to help India secure its first title in the open category.



[COLOR=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8)]India on Sunday scripted history as its men's and women's teams clinched their maiden gold medals in the 45th Chess Olympiad after beating their respective opponents in the final round. The men's team defeated Slovenia after D Gukesh, Arjun Erigaisi and R Praggnanadhaa won their respective matches in the 11th and final round match. The women's team beat Azerbaijan 3.5-0.5 to clinch the title. Indian men had earlier won two bronze -- in 2014 and 2022 -- in the tournament. Indian women had won a bronze in the 2022 edition in Chennai. World Championship challenger Gukesh and Arjun Erigaise yet again delivered in key games to help India secure its first title in the open category.

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Up against Slovenia, Gukesh was at his very best in the technical phase of the game as black against Vladimir Fedoseev. Though it was a laboured victory, the 18-year-old Grandmaster was spot on with his tremendous strategic display.





Erigaise also won with black on the third board against Jan Subeli out of a surprising Centre Counter defense game.









If this was not enough, Praggnanadhaa struck form and scored a crushing victory over Anton Demchenko, as India secured 3-0 triumph over Slovenia with one game still remaining.



The Indian men ended up with a remarkable 21 points out of a possible 22. They conceded just a lone 2-2 draw to Uzbekistan while beating the rest of the opponents.Up against Slovenia, Gukesh was at his very best in the technical phase of the game as black against Vladimir Fedoseev. Though it was a laboured victory, the 18-year-old Grandmaster was spot on with his tremendous strategic display.

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Erigaise also won with black on the third board against Jan Subeli out of a surprising Centre Counter defense game.



If this was not enough, Praggnanadhaa struck form and scored a crushing victory over Anton Demchenko, as India secured 3-0 triumph over Slovenia with one game still remaining.

The Indian men ended up with a remarkable 21 points out of a possible 22. They conceded just a lone 2-2 draw to Uzbekistan while beating the rest of the opponents.[/COLOR]

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[COLOR=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8)]The Indian women then gave a rare double gold for the country as they scored 3.5-0.5 victory against Azerbaijan.The Indian women then gave a rare double gold for the country as they scored 3.5-0.5 victory against Azerbaijan.

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R Praggnanandhaa stuns Magnus Carlsen in Freestyle Chess tournament​

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R Praggnanandhaa stuns Magnus Carlsen in Freestyle Chess tournament
Teenage Indian Grandmaster Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa delivered a resounding statement at the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam in Las Vegas, defeating World No. 1 Magnus Carlsen in a dominant Round 4 clash on Wednesday. In what many are calling a career-defining performance, the 19-year-old dismantled the Norwegian great in just 39 moves, reinforcing his rising stature on the global chess stage and continuing a troubling trend for Carlsen against India's new generation of stars.



Playing with the white pieces, Praggnanandhaa controlled the game from start to finish, registering a remarkable accuracy of 93.9%, compared to Carlsen's unusually low 84.9%. The match, played in a 10-minute + 10-second increment format, saw Praggnanandhaa outmaneuver Carlsen with confidence and composure rarely seen against the five-time world champion. The victory not only gave him the sole lead in Group White at the time, but also added another chapter to his growing legacy-having now defeated Carlsen across all three major time formats: Classical, Rapid, and Blitz.

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"I like Freestyle more than Classical right now," Praggnanandhaa said in a post-game interview, his relaxed tone underscoring the maturity and fearlessness with which he approached the matchup. The Las Vegas leg of the Grand Slam is especially symbolic, as it's a tournament co-founded by Carlsen himself, built around the innovative Freestyle (Chess960) format. That made the Indian's win even more impactful, as he outplayed the tournament's creator on his own turf.

Carlsen's Downward Spiral in Vegas​

Carlsen's campaign in Las Vegas started solidly with back-to-back wins over Vincent Keymer and Levon Aronian, but the wheels came off midway through the group stage. After drawing against Javokhir Sindarov in Round 3, the loss to Praggnanandhaa in Round 4 marked a turning point. He then suffered another defeat in Round 5, this time to American GM Wesley So, followed by a draw against Nodirbek Abdusattorov in Round 6.

Despite ending the group stage with a win over Kazakhstan's Bibisara Assaubayeva, Carlsen's tally of four points wasn't enough to avoid a playoff against Aronian for the final knockout spot from Group White. In an unexpected twist, Carlsen lost both games in the playoff, finishing fifth and crashing out before the quarterfinals-an uncharacteristically early exit for the player widely regarded as the greatest of all time.

India's Mixed Fortunes​

Praggnanandhaa ultimately finished on top of Group White with 4.5 points, tied with Sindarov and Abdusattorov, but ahead on tiebreaks. His wins over Carlsen, Keymer, and Assaubayeva, combined with draws against So and Sindarov, proved enough to seal his progression to the championship bracket. Meanwhile, fellow Indian GM Arjun Erigaisi also advanced from Group Black, placing third behind Hikaru Nakamura and Hans Niemann. However, Vidit Gujrathi exited the tournament early, finishing last in the same group.

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Magnus Carlsen’s menace: How young Indian Grandmasters are proving to be his toughest challengers​

Magnus Carlsen's authority as the world's best chess player had hardly been challenged since he defeated Viswanathan Anand in 2013 to be crowned world champion, three years after he rose to the top of the FIDE ratings for the first time in his career. Carlsen would go on to defeat Anand in a rematch the following year, and thus began an era of domination rivaled only by legends of the game such as Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov in the board game's history.



And even at the age of 34, more than two decades after attaining the title of 'Grandmaster', Carlsen continues to scale new heights in chess, having recently become the first player ever to breach the 2900 ELO rating barrier, albeit in Freestyle format. Nonetheless, at the same time, the Norwegian chess icon, who has been the world's top-ranked player continuously since 2011, finds his authority increasingly challenged with each passing tournament.
And there's a particular group of players who have proven to be a thorn in the flesh for Carlsen more often than not – young Indian Grandmasters. Particularly, the current generation of rising stars, who have excelled over the last couple of years, has transformed India into a powerhouse of sorts in the world of chess.
Losing against Indian players isn't a recent phenomenon for Carlsen – he had, after all, lost to veteran Grandmaster Pentala Harikrishna at the Lausanne Young Masters in 2005. Legendary GM Anand too had scored quite a few wins over Carlsen in the early years of his career – especially during his second reign as world champion from 2007 to 2012, and most recently at the 2022 Norway Chess.

Magnus Carlsen’s menace: How young Indian Grandmasters are proving to be his toughest challengers

Magnus Carlsen's dominance in chess had rarely been challenged for more than a decade after he defeated Viswanathan Anand in 2013 to be crowned world champion for the first time. Reuters​

Karthikeyan Murali became only the third Indian to defeat the Norwegian at the Qatar Masters in 2023. Over a year later, Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa would become the first of the current generation of stars to triumph over Carlsen in the Classical format – at the Norway Chess, his home event, of all places. Later that year, Arjun Erigaisi would outclass Carlsen in just 20 moves at the Tata Steel Blitz event in Kolkata

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So why the spotlight on Carlsen's defeats against young Indians in recent months?
It might have something to do with India's rise as a chess nation since 2024 – a year that witnessed Gukesh Dommaraju become the youngest champion in the history of the Candidates Tournament and the World Championship, besides India becoming only the third nation to achieve a golden sweep at the Chess Olympiad.
That and Carlsen's feud with FIDE, in which the former not only criticised the Lausanne-based world governing body and how they ran the sport at a global level, but also slammed Classical chess in favour of the new Freestyle format.
Some of those potshots were directed towards Anand, who has served as FIDE's deputy president since 2022. And it was only a matter of time before Gukesh and his cronies would be targeted.
Carlsen and Gukesh had come face-to-face for the first time since the latter was crowned world champion at this year's Norway Chess. After beating him in dominant fashion in the opening round, Carlsen took a jibe at Gukesh by quoting a line from the popular HBO series, "You come at the king, you best not miss." A little over a month later, ahead of the SuperUnited Rapid & Blitz Croatia, Carlsen took a fresh dig at Gukesh by referring to him as "one of weaker players".

Letting the chess pieces do the talking
On both occasions, Gukesh responded with brilliance on the chess board to silence Carlsen without saying a word. In Norway, Gukesh fought back from a near-hopeless position to defeat Carlsen for the first time in his career, pulling off what surely was the biggest win of his career alongside his triumph over Ding Liren in the World Championship in December. What made the result even more dramatic was Carlsen's infamous fist-slam on the table in anger that elicited a shocked reaction from his opponent.


And earlier this month in Zagreb, the teenage Grandmaster from Chennai defeated Carlsen for the second time in as many meetings, this time to shut him up for the "weaker players" jibe.
Also Read | Gukesh doesn't miss while coming at 'King' Carlsen, justifies the 'world champion' tag
And unlike his victory in Stavanger, this was a win in the Rapid format – one he was considered weak in – in which he dictated terms from start to finish. The manner in which he lost even led to Russian icon Kasparov questioning Magnus' dominance.

World chess champion D Gukesh vs Magnus Carlsen

D Gukesh had defeated Magnus Carlsen twice in as many meetings recently, albeit in different formats. Image: Grand Chess Tour​

It wasn't just the traditional forms of the game that Carlsen has been challenged in. At the ongoing fourth leg of the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour in Las Vegas, USA, Carlsen lost to Praggnanandhaa in just 39 moves after committing a couple of blunders. The defeat derailed his campaign after a strong start in which he had won his first two games and drew the third, and culminated in the Freestyle Chess co-founder shockingly failing to reach the quarter-finals.

And if that's not all, Carlsen had nearly lost to nine-year-old Candidate Master Aarit Kapil in Chess.com's Titled Tuesday event last month ahead of his trip to Croatia.

A spicy rivalry that makes chess so much more interesting​

And it's not just Indians who are getting the better of Carlsen over the course of the last one year – German Grandmaster Vincent Keymer, after all, had pulled off one of the biggest upsets in recent months after beating Carlsen in the semi-finals of Freestyle Chess Weissenhaus in February, the event that he would end up winning later.
However, his equation with Indian GMs, especially the young trio of Gukesh, Pragg and Arjun, just has that extra spice which certainly has made chess all the more eventful. There's little doubt over the fact that Carlsen continues to reign supreme, as evidenced by the fact that he won the Norway Chess as well as SuperUnited Croatia, events where he made headlines for his losses to Gukesh more than anything else.

India's 'Golden' Generation', however, is leading the way when it comes to highlighting the fact that Carlsen isn't quite the unstoppable force he once was, especially when he voluntarily decided against defending his world title in 2022, as if to suggest he grew bored with the lack of competition.

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Parsis were into Nuclear Science. They were never into Chess.

@Vsdoc

 

[Krishna with Flute]

Parsis were into Nuclear Science. They were never into Chess.

@Vsdoc

Bechare 1 lakh Parasi kahan kahan jaye? Kya kya kare?

 

[Vsdoc]

Bechare 1 lakh Parasi kahan kahan jaye? Kya kya kare?

People do not even close to fathom this basic perspective.

All Parsis of the world can fit into a cricket stadium.

If you calculate statistically achievements per capita, it is significantly higher than the supposed master brain Ashkenazi Jews.

Arthat

Bawon ki jaan loge?

 

[Krishna with Flute]

People do not even close to fathom this basic perspective.

All Parsis of the world can fit into a cricket stadium.

If you calculate statistically achievements per capita, it is significantly higher than the supposed master brain Ashkenazi Jews.

Arthat

Bawon ki jaan loge?

That is what I say. I say that they have contributed a lot. Don't expect more from them.

 

[Krishna with Flute]

People do not even close to fathom this basic perspective.

All Parsis of the world can fit into a cricket stadium.

If you calculate statistically achievements per capita, it is significantly higher than the supposed master brain Ashkenazi Jews.

Arthat

Bawon ki jaan loge?

Bahut Bawaji hamare dost hai. Icchapore main bhi rahete hai. One of them became my friend on first day my job in Surat. He offered me a decent amount of money if I teach him Microsoft Excel as much as I know. Very dear friend of mine.

 

[Krishna with Flute]

Magnus Carlsen’s menace: How young Indian Grandmasters are proving to be his toughest challengers​

Magnus Carlsen's authority as the world's best chess player had hardly been challenged since he defeated Viswanathan Anand in 2013 to be crowned world champion, three years after he rose to the top of the FIDE ratings for the first time in his career. Carlsen would go on to defeat Anand in a rematch the following year, and thus began an era of domination rivaled only by legends of the game such as Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov in the board game's history.



And even at the age of 34, more than two decades after attaining the title of 'Grandmaster', Carlsen continues to scale new heights in chess, having recently become the first player ever to breach the 2900 ELO rating barrier, albeit in Freestyle format. Nonetheless, at the same time, the Norwegian chess icon, who has been the world's top-ranked player continuously since 2011, finds his authority increasingly challenged with each passing tournament.
And there's a particular group of players who have proven to be a thorn in the flesh for Carlsen more often than not – young Indian Grandmasters. Particularly, the current generation of rising stars, who have excelled over the last couple of years, has transformed India into a powerhouse of sorts in the world of chess.
Losing against Indian players isn't a recent phenomenon for Carlsen – he had, after all, lost to veteran Grandmaster Pentala Harikrishna at the Lausanne Young Masters in 2005. Legendary GM Anand too had scored quite a few wins over Carlsen in the early years of his career – especially during his second reign as world champion from 2007 to 2012, and most recently at the 2022 Norway Chess.

Magnus Carlsen’s menace: How young Indian Grandmasters are proving to be his toughest challengers

Magnus Carlsen's dominance in chess had rarely been challenged for more than a decade after he defeated Viswanathan Anand in 2013 to be crowned world champion for the first time. Reuters​

Karthikeyan Murali became only the third Indian to defeat the Norwegian at the Qatar Masters in 2023. Over a year later, Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa would become the first of the current generation of stars to triumph over Carlsen in the Classical format – at the Norway Chess, his home event, of all places. Later that year, Arjun Erigaisi would outclass Carlsen in just 20 moves at the Tata Steel Blitz event in Kolkata

Related video: The untold story of world champ D Gukesh #ManifestIT (Indiatimes)

Current Time 0:00​

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Duration 1:04







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The untold story of world champ D Gukesh #ManifestIT

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'King' and 'weaker player' jibes intensify rivalry with Indians​

So why the spotlight on Carlsen's defeats against young Indians in recent months?
It might have something to do with India's rise as a chess nation since 2024 – a year that witnessed Gukesh Dommaraju become the youngest champion in the history of the Candidates Tournament and the World Championship, besides India becoming only the third nation to achieve a golden sweep at the Chess Olympiad.
That and Carlsen's feud with FIDE, in which the former not only criticised the Lausanne-based world governing body and how they ran the sport at a global level, but also slammed Classical chess in favour of the new Freestyle format.
Some of those potshots were directed towards Anand, who has served as FIDE's deputy president since 2022. And it was only a matter of time before Gukesh and his cronies would be targeted.
Carlsen and Gukesh had come face-to-face for the first time since the latter was crowned world champion at this year's Norway Chess. After beating him in dominant fashion in the opening round, Carlsen took a jibe at Gukesh by quoting a line from the popular HBO series, "You come at the king, you best not miss." A little over a month later, ahead of the SuperUnited Rapid & Blitz Croatia, Carlsen took a fresh dig at Gukesh by referring to him as "one of weaker players".

Letting the chess pieces do the talking
On both occasions, Gukesh responded with brilliance on the chess board to silence Carlsen without saying a word. In Norway, Gukesh fought back from a near-hopeless position to defeat Carlsen for the first time in his career, pulling off what surely was the biggest win of his career alongside his triumph over Ding Liren in the World Championship in December. What made the result even more dramatic was Carlsen's infamous fist-slam on the table in anger that elicited a shocked reaction from his opponent.



And earlier this month in Zagreb, the teenage Grandmaster from Chennai defeated Carlsen for the second time in as many meetings, this time to shut him up for the "weaker players" jibe.
Also Read | Gukesh doesn't miss while coming at 'King' Carlsen, justifies the 'world champion' tag
And unlike his victory in Stavanger, this was a win in the Rapid format – one he was considered weak in – in which he dictated terms from start to finish. The manner in which he lost even led to Russian icon Kasparov questioning Magnus' dominance.

World chess champion D Gukesh vs Magnus Carlsen

D Gukesh had defeated Magnus Carlsen twice in as many meetings recently, albeit in different formats. Image: Grand Chess Tour​

It wasn't just the traditional forms of the game that Carlsen has been challenged in. At the ongoing fourth leg of the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour in Las Vegas, USA, Carlsen lost to Praggnanandhaa in just 39 moves after committing a couple of blunders. The defeat derailed his campaign after a strong start in which he had won his first two games and drew the third, and culminated in the Freestyle Chess co-founder shockingly failing to reach the quarter-finals.

And if that's not all, Carlsen had nearly lost to nine-year-old Candidate Master Aarit Kapil in Chess.com's Titled Tuesday event last month ahead of his trip to Croatia.

A spicy rivalry that makes chess so much more interesting​

And it's not just Indians who are getting the better of Carlsen over the course of the last one year – German Grandmaster Vincent Keymer, after all, had pulled off one of the biggest upsets in recent months after beating Carlsen in the semi-finals of Freestyle Chess Weissenhaus in February, the event that he would end up winning later.
However, his equation with Indian GMs, especially the young trio of Gukesh, Pragg and Arjun, just has that extra spice which certainly has made chess all the more eventful. There's little doubt over the fact that Carlsen continues to reign supreme, as evidenced by the fact that he won the Norway Chess as well as SuperUnited Croatia, events where he made headlines for his losses to Gukesh more than anything else.

India's 'Golden' Generation', however, is leading the way when it comes to highlighting the fact that Carlsen isn't quite the unstoppable force he once was, especially when he voluntarily decided against defending his world title in 2022, as if to suggest he grew bored with the lack of competition.

MSN

This teen Pragna is a genius.

 

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Afterall, Chess is a game of brain. Only Indians deserves to be on top. @Sharma Ji , what say?

 

[Vsdoc]

Bahut Bawaji hamare dost hai. Icchapore main bhi rahete hai. One of them became my friend on first day my job in Surat. He offered me a decent amount of money if I teach him Microsoft Excel as much as I know. Very dear friend of mine.

Icchaporia is a common surname.

 

[Sharma Ji]

Afterall, Chess is a game of brain. Only Indians deserves to be on top. @Sharma Ji , what say?

Tam bram and Bong bram dominance mostly, isn't it ?

Vegetarian and machli diet hai asli raaz !

 

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Icchaporia is a common surname.

Yes, one of my friend"s surname is Icchaporia.

 

[Krishna with Flute]

Tam bram and Bong bram dominance mostly, isn't it ?

Vegetarian and machli diet hai asli raaz !

I agree with vegetarian diet. Macchali to karlson bhi khaya hoga. Apana @Bilal9 aur @Saif bhi khate hoge.