“No Technique, Just Play Your Best”: R Praggnanandhaa After India’s Win At Chess Olympiad

Chess grandmaster R Praggnanandhaa shared satisfaction at India’s dual gold medal win at the recently-concluded Chess Olympiad and included that the victory would certainly take the video game to even more individuals. In the recently-concluded Chess Olympiad, India’s guys’s and ladies’s groups made background, protecting gold medals for the very first time in their particular classifications and signing up with the elite firm of nations to have actually managed a dual of gold medals in the exact same version of the competitors. Praggnanandhaa, his sibling Vaishali Rameshbabu, and guys’s group captain Srinath Narayanan were offered a cozy welcome at the Chennai airport terminal after the win.

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#WATCH|Tamil Nadu: Brother- sibling duo Praggnanandhaa and Vaishali Rameshbabu, that became part of theIndian guys’s and ladies’s chess groups, obtain a cozy welcome at the Chennai airport terminal

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Speaking to ANI,Praggnanandhaa claimed, “Both the men’s and women’s teams won the gold medal. This is a very historic achievement, and there are very few teams who have won both medals at the same time, and we are winning for the first time. This is a very proud moment for all of us. I think this win will take chess to more people.”

He shared that throughout the last Olympiad back inChennai, India was close to winning gold, yet the last 2 video games did not work out, and the guys’s and ladies’s groups both needed to go for bronze medals.

“But this time around, we were more experienced. We were able to use that experience and get the gold. There was no technique as such; you just have to play at your best,” he included.

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#WATCH|Chennai, Tamil Nadu: On winning gold medal in the 45th Chess Olympiad, Indian chess grandmaster R Praggnanandhaa claims, “Both the men’s and women’s teams won the Gold Medal. This is a very historic achievement and there are very few teams who have won both medals at the… pic.twitter.com/OP9JF8yfNn

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Men’s group captain Srinath additionally informed ANI that the trip was rather “smooth” for the guys’s group as they handled to win 10 suits in a leading style and attracted one.

“India has won the gold medal at the Olympiad for the first time. It is a historic achievement. I was the captain of the men’s team. And it has been a very smooth journey as far as the men’s team is concerned. We won 10 matches. We drew one match. And we won by a margin of four match points. We had a very impressive win right from the start… Everything happened smoothly. It was a complete team effort and a historic achievement,” claimed Srinath.

Srinath highlighted several landmarks in the group’s trip, like defeating the host country Hungary, the European Champions Serbia, the front runner group U.S.A., China, among the most difficult challengers for India, and Asian Games champs Iran.

The group captain claimed that having Chess tale Viswanathan Anand in Budapest was a good experience and it was excellent to win before him.

“I look up to him. Having him around gave us a lot of positivity,” he included.

Praggnanandhaa’s sibling Vaishali additionally informed ANI, “I am very happy to be a part of the Indian Gold Medal team. Both teams have won gold medals. It is a historic moment. I am very happy that both men and women were able to perform well this time. We were close to a gold medal in previous Olympiad, but the last match did not go our way and had to settle for bronze. It was a painful moment for us.”

Vaishali gave thanks to the trainers for their assistance in the group’s victory.

In the last round of the event, India’s guys’s group of D Gukesh, R Praggnanandhaa, Arjun Erigaisi, Vidit Gujrathi, and Pentala Harikrishna beat Slovenia to secure the gold medal.

It was the victories from D Gukesh and Arjun Erigaisi that offered India a 2-0 lead and verified the gold medal. Later in the last round, Praggnandhaa additionally won his video game, and Vidit finished his spell with a draw. India beat Slovenia 3.5-0.5 to secure the gold medal.

Meanwhile, the Indian ladies’s chess group of Harika Dronavalli, R Vaishali, Divya Deshmukh, Vantika Agarwal, and Tania Sachdev additionally won gold after defeating Azerbaijan 3.5-0.5.

Harika Dronavalli, Divya Deshmukh, and Vantika Agrawal won their particular suits in the last round. While, R Vaishali attracted her suit versus Ulviyya Fataliyeva.

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