India clinches both golds in World Chess Olympiad-depth, width of talent & geopolitics of sport

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[@Shva927]

i m surprised that u r covering this

[@gautamdevchakravarty8207]

Anish giri represents Netherlands, his father is originally from Nepal

[@cmkar1013]

It's a Shame that you forget to mention Vishy's Chess Academy with Westbridge and 30+ grand masters from *SAMBAR SPECIAL* TAMIL NADU 🎉❤ 😅 😂

[@sidbecks23]

@@cmkar1013 ...This is what happens when you have absolutely zero knowledge on the subject and in front of the camera you are just reading a script given to you by a team which has done piss poor homework and research...the world rankings of our national heroes mentioned in this video are all wrong....im happy that they covered this achievement but at the same time they are giving out false information to those people who dont follow chess.

[@sargamdil]

I am extremely surprised that you are even talking about this!! Leave it to specialists. We have been following Chess for a long, long time. I absolutely hate it when generalists speak about something that they dont even know and just cover it as it’s a flavor of the season. People who have been following Anand and Indian Chess along with multiple other GMs that he has mentored are not surprised by what’s happening. Please stay out of it. I am sure that Rajdeep, Barkha and others will also cover this as it’s the flavor of the season!!. Very unfortunate

[@indrajeetkamat6138]

Vishwanath Anand deserves a Bharat Ratna... Not just for his own performance. But also building and inspiring this galaxy of stars in chess.

[@msdadsfsx]

Why not thala

[@mugiwara839]

*Viswanathan Anand

[@suryakumar7800]

@@msdadsfsx I would say the impact of Vishwanathan Anand made in Indian Chess is >>>>>>> MS Dhoni's impact in Indian Cricket. Thus Vishy's Bharat Ratna is very much needed

[@msdadsfsx]

@@suryakumar7800 but thala trained some of these chess players according to some sources

[@vamshisai6329]

​@@msdadsfsx😂😂😂

[@tubelz]

Every primary school in India should have a Chess club and Math club. The Soviet Union had a great chess and math culture for children, one worth emulating. Let all children enjoy in these delights. Congratulation to Team India. The hard work has paid off.

[@Justarandom_guy553]

Vellammal school - Gukesh and Pragg's school has one.

[@meowman7926]

some had, my school had.

[@deepakchopra2738]

Sir you failed to mention chess has been invented in India during Gupta period. So its a delight to be top of game we have given to world

[@Vor567tez]

That Chees is different from the European version. Indian Sport ministry should relaunch lost Indian games as a tournament.

[@SKP-op4vd]

​@@Vor567tezmodern chess wouldn't exist if not for the original Indian chess. That needs to be acknowledged.

[@Vor567tez]

@@SKP-op4vd Which I did. That's why I said the last line.

[@vijaygarikipati6087]

@@Vor567tez it’s an evolution. The concept was born in Bharat.

[@thedevashishsarkar]

Love that sentiment!

[@mxxmauuhan3597]

"How many among them belong to SC, ST and OBC" asks Rahul Pappu Gandhi

[@kravishankar65]

😂

[@IvanMend]

​@@kravishankar65how many OBC st sc in modi ministers 😂😂 only modi

[@parikshithj8636]

In fact, most of those in the team were from obc

[@IvanMend]

@@parikshithj8636 Amit shah guju Brahmin Advani upper caste vajpayee Brahmin nirmala Tamil Brahmin jayashankar Tamil origin Kerala Brahmin gadkari marathi Brahmin Yogi utharkand Brahmin Ram nath upper caste. Who is sc st. Who is South Indian OBC????????

[@parikshithj8636]

@@IvanMend laude I was talking about chess team

[@orunabho]

It is the southern states led by Tamilnadu that is ushering the chess revolution in India recently. The level of involvement and competition there is mind blowing. Bangalore is also a hub. The introduction of chess as a subject in school did the trick in TN.

[@parvadhami980]

How if every state patronize one sport. Odisha did it for hockey Tamil Nadu for chess Haryana for wrestling and boxing

[@parvadhami980]

How if every state patronize one sport. Odisha did it for hockey Tamil Nadu for chess Haryana for wrestling and boxing

[@vijayvicky2405]

Out 5 4 are telugites, 2 from Telugu states, 2 gukesh and prag are telugites settled in Tamil nadu

[@SaiCh-yw9wp]

Achievement and domination in chess is unparalleled with any other sport india plays....😂​@@parvadhami980

[@Raghuram_2894]

Most of them are Telugu. What are you smoking?

[@rohitupadhya6449]

Anish Giri is also half Nepali, not half Indian. :)

[@veerapandyan8403]

it is entire south indian team

[@manojlds]

Anish was born in Russia and played for Russia and then switched to Netherlands and yes has Nepali dad and Russian mom

[@chinmaydubey7154]

His grandmother was Indian

[@anshul6168]

@@veerapandyan8403 you must have dropped your pea sized brain somewhere. It's an Indian team with a Tamil Prag, Telugu Gukesh, Gujrati Vidit. It's not a "south Indian" team. women team also has a Divya, Tanya, Vantika who all are just Indianas as much as Vaishali and Harika.

[@aashishchutani1856]

​@@veerapandyan8403Tania Sachdev is Punjabi , Divya Deshmukh is Marathi, Vantika is from Delhi🤣 Other states are also doing well😁 HARYANA AND PUNJAB ARE INDIAN OLYMPIC MEDALS CAPITALS MOST OF INDIAN CRICKET, HOCKEY AND KABADDI PLAYERS COMES FROM HARYANA AND PUNJAB🤣🤣

[@chinmaydubey7154]

Bharat Ratna for Vishy Anand sir hopefully

[@mugiwara839]

Dear Shekar sir, This was a very disappointing and half baked report. About half of the report was on Russia and its history in Chess (I understand it’s your call on the topic distribution), but given the title, you should have had covered the upcoming Gukesh vs Ding WCC match, Indians at the candidates 2024 and India’s performance in the Chennai Olympiad to say the least. I understand that you are not much familiar with the chess sport but as a journalist, this is where your lack of research is clearly evident. Maybe get in touch with actual chess journalists. Apologies for being blunt, but you owe us a second part for such a half baked story.

[@rathishvr]

This fool was talking about everything but forgot to talk about india's victory in chess Olympiad and also he said he choose this among others topics, God help him.

[@tanmay771]

Eventually you'll realise that almost all his stories are half-baked.

[@harshgarg1448]

His expertise is politics and he starts with saying he have little knowledge, so I understand hi sdiversiob even if itis regrettable. Still it is better than whatever lallantop is doing, they are acting like chess doesn't exist

[@mugiwara839]

@@harshgarg1448 I understand that it is not his expertise, but this one sounded like an overnight preparation reading 2-3 articles on chess Olympiad history, or just a simple chatGPT query. This event deserved a much better coverage from Shekar. I don’t follow others so can’t vouch for them.

[@keshavy1189]

He was giving a brief history of the chess olympiad. I commend him for atleast reading several articles on chess atleast. Most interviewers on TV have no idea of Chess, it's history and how important this victory is. He also gives a good brief on current chess politics. It's not relevant to chess newbies but the reality on ground is that such politics matters and it shapes the current scenario of Chess.

[@AndyKatana]

This episode sounded like college student finishing his assignment. Everything was wikipedia info. You should have at least called some Indian GM to add some depth to CTC, if you don't follow chess.

[@Flying_Kobold]

A young IM of Indian origin played for England too.. Sadly English themselves are trolling her.. She was the youngest team member in the England team in the Olympiad

[@fireworxz]

And then there are some Indians who still look up to the British without any self respect

[@iamDamaaldumeel]

*Bodhana Sivanandhan!*

[@anishsrivastava7467]

Arjun Erigaisi is an absolute monster on board.

[@pulkitupadhyay5479]

I wasn't expecting an episode on my fav sport chess but so glad you did it sir.

[@sagarmanaktala]

2020 was a rapid online olympiad it is not considered as other fide classical olympiad. Hence this is considered first gold in olympiad

[@prashantkumar-jf6ej]

Kuch ni pata budhe ko bas dekh k bol ra hai... Aur updated bhhi nai hai iske fide rating

[@tarunyadav3567]

@@prashantkumar-jf6ej Fide doesn't update ratings until next month so what he said are official ratings. Live ratings are not official

[@shashamnk2525]

Shekhar Sir, as much as we would like Anish to be of Indian Origin, he is ofcourse an excellent chess player and we all have a lot of respect for him, he is of Nepali Origin.

[@novjose]

I think one of his grandmothers is from Mumbai.. Not sure

[@amritanshu5646]

Fun fact : Anish Giri's father was from Nepal, he married a foreign(not sure but a russian he met in Japan during his studies )and Anish married a different country girl 😂. He sometimes streams with chess base India

[@biswanathmahapatra8441]

This is Historic for India.. In last 10 years, Indian Chess has gone leaps n bounces..

[@Vor567tez]

I think it's bcs of TATA chess championship.

[@sankalpsharma5407]

We, your audience loves your coverage of a very important sport, born right here in India. Please continue to cover it more. Ratings are outdated though, current ratings much better. Also a very important point you missed, Gukesh is playing World Chess Championship, challenging the world chapion for 1v1 for the world's best title later this year. An achievement too big to miss.

[@DineshWHO]

Samay raina also deserves some appreciation for permoting chase in india 🇮🇳

[@bpi8940]

Because there in no reservation, what we see the victory of merit 💯💯

[@mxxmauuhan3597]

Rahul Pappu Gandhi wants to know the cast of these players 😂😂

[@MidTownHomie]

This is why education is important buddy , there's no reservation in sports expect for specially abled persons , it's only limited to educational institutions and jobs , so sit down , people like you make it obvious why the people from lower strata despise you and your lot , just imagine the audacity you have to mock the whole community without you achieving anything still blame on others for your failures in this age , just imagine what is the level of discrimination that your forefathers could have subjected them to , learn to not be like them , mocking people who are less equals either financially or intellectually doesn't make you superior or any good , it makes you look even more dumb !

[@IndiaTides]

Lol. And which other sports we perform better? The same condition apply to those sports as well. You want to blame reservation for everything. I am for destruction of caste system. You destroy it. I will support end of the reservation. Some people enjoyed reservation for 5000 years. Lived off money from the shudras and Vaishyas. Currently have strong networks of caste which allow them to progress even though they don't deserve shit. Give me 100% reservation for 5000 years. We will be in equal competitive situation.

[@manishvaishnav821]

​@@IndiaTides yes reservation is not good. If you thinking only about reservation than it is not good for our country. Reservation deke tum pichhde logo ko support Krna chahte ho, ye toh wahi hua ki jo hakdar nahi hai usse dusre ka hai dila rhe ho. Agar wo pichde jati ka admi hakdar hai toh usse jaroor milega, lekin agar hakadar bhi nahi fir bhi dene ki baat krta hai reservation. Basically reservation worst hai

[@manishvaishnav821]

Mere jee me 90 percentile the, Agar mai reservation wala hota toh mujhe nit mil jati, Par mai obc/general se ata hu. Aur agar wahi sc/st ke bhimte ko 70 percentile ajay toh usse kahi bhatkne ki jaroorat nahi free me nit IIT mil jata hai. Ye toh sidha sidha equality ki g@nd marna hai

[@curiousaurus]

An off the cuff with Anish Giri will be a delight for everyone he is very witty

[@kundankhalkho]

Dear SG, while mentioning the World Chess Championship Title event between the two GMs of China and India, please do mention that GM Gukesh D (Ind) would be challenging GM Ding Liren (Chn), the current World Chess Champion for the title. GM Gukesh D won the Candidates Tournament 2024, beating 7 other top Grandmasters, to become the youngest ever challenger for the title. A "small" detail about the highest chess title.

[@prasannadhopate8513]

Anish Giri has Nepali father and Russian Mother. He is citizen of Holland and plays for Dutch team.

[@chesswithsagar]

Anish Giri is Dutch player , native of Nepal. Her naani waa from Banaras.

[@vivekanandholla6730]

Watched the matches and it was great fun watching Gukesh and Arjun play. Thank you for the video

[@guruvision4999]

Credit need to go to Manuel Aaron. It is pity not many people know him. He is rightfully father of Indian Chess.

[@appadingu]

Thank you for this. This basic fact should have been mentioned in this CTC.

[@Prashiiiii]

Even if russian players were allowed to compete this time indian team was overpowered...and favourites to win from first day....our prodigies are crushing everyone from past year

[@Jagan612]

Why can't he invest in an intern who will put up all the stats in a one slide to include in the video.... very easy to register than just reading it out... The number of grand masters, Fide ratings for Indians all should be a slide.

[@aadesh7]

Rankings are from last month. There is a significant rise for a few of them in live ratings

[@alooreza2170]

There is different between live rating and published rating

[@lazylitan]

@@alooreza2170 yup but live rating need to be mentioned.

[@aadesh7]

Couple minutes into the video I realized this is not about chess. Some random video on Russian politics.

[@ajayraghavjoshi]

Chess i india rose in pandemic true not because of queens gambit.first of all all the chess players started playing because of vishy sir..but we audience started getting interest in chess because of chess base india youtube channel because of sagar shah.and samay started streaming chess in pandemic .we learnt chess because of these people .i now play daily because of these people.thanks to them

[@shivajirao5755]

Chess making you lean towards it is good to know. Chess has some intriguing connection with Comrades. As long as Russia was a Communist country it held a No.1 rank. But now it is loosing ground alround. India 🇮🇳 shall remain a democratic republic based on Indian values even after holding No.1 place in Chess.

[@rameshjamdar1555]

Excellent subject to choose. Kudos to you. An amazing feat by Indians. All the best to them for the future

[@aniketraje4430]

Why are the FIDE rankings for men and women different?

[@VickyYadav-qj6kv]

Hail ChessBase India Vishy sir🇮🇳💙

[@shahidanusrat6086]

Congratulations from Pakistan 😊. Best regards from Pakistan 😊.

[@kumarm5961]

Not needed

[@suniljoglekar954]

Great statement to end the episode 👍👍👏👏

[@AnkhArcRod]

In the game of Chess, you can smother your King and, therefore, your own side. I think we are witnessing that right now with all the undermining going on!

[@bgokhale]

So nice to see this topic covered here. Mainstream media is oblivious to these achievements.

[@vijaygarikipati6087]

I strongly believe that education and economic well-being will re-kindle the “chess genes” producing many more grand masters. Heck, chess was invented in India.

[@veerapandyan8403]

team effort by indians give india gold

[@ranjitmajumder4967]

Proud of the Indian team, congratulations.

[@swapnil-420]

Shekhar Just loved your coverage. ❤❤ Specially the outro

[@umeume-tv7qk]

We like these kind of episodes! Keep it up Shekhar ji.

[@gouthamkondapavuluru1959]

Andhra people doing well in chess and Chennai has become like a hub for good chess players.

[@Aditya-fx2tv]

Gukesh ,Pragg ,vidit and Arjun are the lethal combo we can ever produce

[@kravishankar65]

Shekhar hasn't heard of sacrifice in chess , which is why he says " in the game of chess you can never kill your own"

[@anandleslie9454]

Print Team....a suggestion can you re-release all these episodes with sufficient infographics..thanks

[@riteshdhawan8383]

Chess is life and life is chess!. All these amazing indians who helped bring laurels deserve a round of applause. I think, they may very well get an appreciation from our prime minister. I have been playing this game for quite sometime, however, i find it very difficult. But thats besides the point, the beauty of the game in itself is a big allurement for me. I sometimes believe, that chess players can be very good coders!

[@bakuleshantani7431]

In Chess Olympiads of the past Anand did not do so well as his then ratings would suggest. Sometimes he gave Olympiads a miss also. To illustrate in comparative terms Indian tennis players like Ramanathan,Vijay,Ramesh,Leander and even Shashi Menon beat their higher ranked players in Davis Cup. Current crop of chess prodigies have similar spunk (except Humpy) and have brought laurels for India. Anand,I am not sure,is legitimately basking in the reflected glory of the current success.

[@PrasannaSankar87]

@SG, you need a wayyyy better sports journalism team. There was so much drama, so much interpersonal rivalries in the current Chess Olympiad.. we got to celebrate our sweet victory in a much better way.. Gukeah vs Abdusattarov rivalry Pragg vs Leko legendary draw game Gukesh defeating Wei Yi, the legendary game and "Gukesh's own immortal" till day How Divya Deshmukh obliterated the Women's section

[@ishaanrohmetra3447]

you should do interview with sagar shah who is working day and night to popularize chess in india. He deserves equal respect too.

[@raghushri]

Maybe you can learn to pronounce Pragg’s name. And Arjun is now ranked 3rd. Finally, Anand has also played a big role as one of the driving forces behind WACA that a lot of the key players were part of.

[@nirajmallayt]

Arjun is no 3 now but the ranking is not updated

[@joylife428]

Gukesh insane performance man . I can think of benstokes performance in englands world cup win and a fantastic insane headingly win in the same year 😂

[@yoginichavda3280]

Your information is not Accurate because in open section 1 board gukesh candidate winner and wold championship challenger 2 pragg candidate player and has win against Magnus ( world no 1) 3 arjun most high rated in turms of fide ratting and have very good form 4 vidit candidate player and also grend Swiss 2023 champion 5 hari krishana have played more thane 10 olympiad in his life So ratting say only about your current form not all the other information This team win 10 rounds and 1 Drew in total 11 rounds Also we lost 1 game in 44 games Domination for sure Also women team 1 harika most experience one 2 vaisali candidate's player and also winner of grand Swiss 2023 3 divya she is in her prime form she just won in tournament in Dubai 4 vantika 2 olympiad and very young and very well played 5 thaniya Experience one from 2008 Women section lost one round and one drew back to back but fight and win

[@bhagwancapitalism1057]

Whats special with 2 point??. you should know that every super gm had beaten world no1 magnus. Even some IMs had won match against magnus.

[@TheRager1118]

Amazing episode, once again

[@essm4179]

India should invite Russia to Asian Games. Between China & other countries, that will then rival the Olympics too. Like what BRICS is to G7.

[@nsirugudi]

Dear Shekharji, I am, possibly, amongst the earliest members of the Print. I think you and your team are doing a great job, bringing us unbiased news. I wanted to point the attention of your team to a project called the Dedicated Freight Corridor by the Modi Government. On paper the project seems quite promising and as usual the devil might lie in the detail or maybe there could be vested interests involved. Either way its an ideal topic to de-clutter. Kindly do a CTC on the DFC project of Railways. Thank you. Namaste.

[@ThePrintIndia]

Thank you, my friend, for the suggestion, we will certainly look into it. Do keep watching and writing in. Your support and appreciation means a lot...best wishes, Shekhar

[@madeinandhra12-rk5mw]

Malcolm Gladwell has to write Outliers Part 2 and revisit Chapter 8. Now, he will reveal the role numbers, culture, chantings, rote memorization, and agriculture play in the game of chess and spelling bee skills.

[@obeyr8232]

_टीम को बधाई_ workhard for more golds....

[@harshalshah8845]

Please shekhar sir, a ctc on orissa and tirupati laddu controversy would be really nice

[@NasirShaikh-0396]

As a regular chess content consumer finding that Anish name in this video is hilarious and we chess lover accepted him as Indian.

[@mangeshdevalapurkar5283]

Good that you covered this news. Thank you. However you should have done it immediatly. Later is better than never. Most of the media are giving too much time for political leaders who are not deserving that much coverage. Our Chess team and Great Legend Anand Sir, especially Tamilnadu Govt has done wonders.

[@harishgoud3628]

last line hit hard , nice one

[@sudhanshus3962]

I just love your today's selection of topic

[@prasvasu4217]

Vishy Anand is a gem of a person...

[@spacexfanclub6529]

Extremely delighted that you chose this topic. Thoroughly enjoyed this episode. Be prepared to do another CTC on Chess in December of this year when Gukesh will become the youngest World Champion in the history of chess ;) :P

[@sharmapk4514]

Those were rankings at the start of the tournament. They are higher now.

[@mayanksingh0044]

what is a grandmaster ? what is international master? whats the parameters and who decides it ?

[@kingbradley3402]

Grandmaster (GM) is the highest official title awarded by FIDE, the global chess committee. International Master (IM) is one level lower than that. There are other titles like FM, CM and NM. There are 2 things you need to achieve for these titles: one is called ELO rating. Consider it like a rating which tells your chess strength. For GM title, you need to have 2500 rating. For IM, you need 2400 rating. You gain rating by winning or drawing other players. Second thing you need is called norms. These are given in specific tournaments decided by FIDE, and is based on your performance in that tournament. For GM, you need 3 GM norms. For IM, you need 3 IM norms. Once you get a title, you have it for life

[@chiragpiprotar6889]

You have been using the terms world chess championship and chess Olympiad interchangeably. Both are separate tournaments, Olympiad is a team tournament and the world chess championship is an individual one.

[@LNCMD2023]

If Russia was not allowed to participate then India cannot claim to be the World champion.

[@PradeepSNair]

Comparison between Australia in cricket and Russia and its ranking in Chess today is not correct

[@curio78]

anish pretty much hangs out with indian team. so you can consider him indian. he may even have overseas citizenship of india, as he is eligible.

[@shashamnk2525]

Would he be eligible? He is not of Indian origin, so he is probably not eligible.

[@curio78]

@@shashamnk2525 all descendants of Indians are eligible. up to 4 generations. anish is still the first generation I believe.

[@anshul6168]

@@curio78 His father is from Nepal and mother from russia but he has great grandmother who was from India

[@curio78]

@@anshul6168 that's odd I read somewhere his father was Senegalese indian. but great grand mother counts too.

[@Zethuzzz]

While this rise is fantastic, it would be good if India does equally well in physical sports. The last Olympics were an absolute disaster

[@Subtr0nic]

Thank you and exactly. Nobody pays attention to Chess. Also this is an individual sport. India is the worst in all categories when i goes to team sports and any physical sports overall to compete with the world. We do not even quality for FIFA world cup. This time around almost 60+ teams were qualified and yet India failed in football/soccer for the next Fifa world cup

[@akashagarwal5183]

Pls do Next episode on Sri Lanka election results...

[@somyatuteja7087]

Acknowledging Queen’s Gambit but ignoring Samay Raina’s contribution to making Chess popular among youth is something on a Boomer (sorry Shekhar Sir ) could do!

[@dcan888]

In chess you don't kill opponent pieces you capture them.

[@anandverma2083]

The ratings has updated

[@nishanthnellutla]

It is truly inspiring and mind-blowing to witness the history making achievements of our young Chess players. Personally, I liked Arjun's style of play but Gukesh has been all round. All the best Gukesh for the World Championship match against Ding!!!

[@kundankhalkho]

Op : Shouldn't Israel be treated in the similar manner at international sporting events as is done to Russia?

[@abhishekchaturvedi6008]

Arjun is number 3 and Gukesh is 4th. Get updated

[@ramranjanchoudhury4456]

Slightly incorrect information. Arkady Dvorkovich fide president who is russian has presided the Fide general meeting at Budapest. However when agenda on lifting ban on russia is taken in the general meeting, Dvorkovich didn't preside for the agenda. Instead ANAND preside for it.

[@abagwe9887]

Like sports Modi will also change prospect of politician in future..... for India 😊

[@curio78]

i did not know russia was banned. that is bad, why was china not banned for their move on south china sea?.

[@lazylitan]

@@curio78 western hypocrisy

[@soumaSR]

China is an economic superpower+manufacturing hub and the Russkies are broke(smaller economy than Italy) minus the oil trade also yeah the so called 'world order' is hypocrite by nature.

[@M_R___974]

Should do a caste census of them and their coaches.

[@shobhittodi9540]

Pappu: There should be 80% reservation for SC/ST/OBC in olympiad team

[@SivaramakrishnanA-r4j]

State which has maximum reservation , Tamilnadu is having 40% GMs of India …

[@lazylitan]

@@SivaramakrishnanA-r4j how you come up with reservations and no. Of GM ? Involving caste in sports and judiciary is the last nail in coffin of the India.

[@SivaramakrishnanA-r4j]

@@lazylitan Due the reservation We in Tamilnadu are giving more Scientists and IT professionals than any other state

[@lazylitan]

@@SivaramakrishnanA-r4j I'm not getting what reservations have to do with it. If it's "due to reservation" then i think you need to reconsider. And I'm not completely against reservation but one need to fix the loop hole . How a IAS son still get the access of reservation? Don't you think these high profile children are getting all the benifits and low income families who truly deserve reservation is getting poor and poor .

[@Zerrssddg]

Olympic medal from north india ​@@SivaramakrishnanA-r4j

[@mohokdas7629]

It's a shame that for western interest Russian cannot compete globally in sports

[@saurabhashish15]

Arjun now is 3rd gukesh 5th.

[@tushar_ranjan7]

Live ratings*

[@saicharanplanetspark9899]

anishb giri is as indian an india could ever be

[@LEO-ht2dk]

Bharath mata ki jai 🙏🙏🙏❤️

[@srikika]

you can definately sacrifice you own piece far a better position on the board ;)

[@Zambia974]

thanks for noticing non-existential comment

[@rejijai9120]

New specs. Nice

[@manshuraiagarwal1766]

Shekhar I would like to see you talk on the laddu issue. The reports that are coming out seem hard to believe. Need some fact based analysis of the clutter

[@manjulashanmugasundaram706]

Any chance of a passing remark on the sidelines about AKD win in SL?

[@lakshitmittal1245]

Why does a sport like Chess has separate ranking and game for women? Wouldn’t it merit to have a mixed game and ranking for chess?

[@hkumar7340]

Almost every study has shown that men have a genetic advantage in spatial reasoning. (Women have a genetic advantage in certain verbal comprehension categories -- things like vocabulary.) That means that, at the topmost levels of any game that requires spatial thinking, men will far outnumber women. And you can see this quite clearly in the list of super GMs -- higher than 2700 FIDE rating -- in chess. Other than Judit Polgar, I cannot think of any woman who could have competed in the super-elite level of chess tournaments. So, it does make sense to have a separate ranking and a separate game for women.

[@stormixgaming8389]

They aren't separate the two sections are the Open and Women sections. Women can play in the open sections but given there are far fewer woman the talent pool does not have an equal distribution, hence the women specific sections.

[@rameshjamdar1555]

Excellent subj

[@parvadhami980]

Vishy Effect

[@nitinpatel1039]

I was expecting ctc on quad how far this group has come, formal summit that too philly, is big lead forward will be interesting to see how this develop, it will be sma under Harris but if Trump how he deal with China will decide quad future so far so good

[@PranavPatil-n1v]

Without russia any game is incomplete period