Manuel Aaron: The First Superstar of Indian Chess | Olympiad Stories with Saravanan S01 E05

[@sambartabanerjee3766]

I can keep listening to Saravanan and his stories all day long. Hats off the Manuel Aaron- the first superstar of Indian Chess. His game against Lajos Portisch from 1962 Stockholm Interzonal is a gem.

[@krisgray1957]

I am born in Madurai 1957. Manuel Aaron was a role model for me when I was studying in university

[@grahampawar]

Dear ChessBase India, Always a treat to listen to stories by Saravanan Sir and I love to hear about the struggles, ups and downs, comebacks, glorious and prosperous moments and various personalities of Indian Chess history. Please do bring more episodes in this series! Having a very proud and inspiring time listening to these classy timeless videos on our history. Your's Truly, Graham Pawar.

[@ravivaradhan4956]

Beautiful episode! Manuel Aaron is undoubtedly the bedrock of Indian chess and particularly, Tamil Nadu chess. We owe a great deal of gratitude to Manuel Aaron for the flourishing of Indian chess. Without Manuel Aaron, there would be no Vishy Anand or Praggnanandhaa or Gukesh.

[@chaitanyashrivastava6657]

Even his son Mr Arvind Aron is doing the great job. Taking his legacy forward.

[@binujacob6999]

Love to hear two lovers of chess talk about the game. Please keep this series coming!

[@blohot]

I have had the pleasure of watching Manuel Aaron, Dibyendra Barua, Pravin Thipsay and other greats live in Bangalore, back in the late 80's. I was in college then and watching them was infinitely more interesting than attending boring lectures!

[@loveislife4769]

I started following chess from 1972 and my role model was Manuel Aaron

[@loveislife4769]

🙏🙏🙏

[@grahampawar]

Manuel Aaron sir !!! A lot of respect and thanks to him and people like him who understand the need of the hour who have and are creating tools, mediums, platforms, services and opportunities to create possibilities for the present and future of our country! 🙌♥️

[@rajeshwardoraisubramania7138]

Manuel Aaron legend

[@ajayraghavjoshi]

This podcast inspires us to be passionate in our job.🙏🏻🙏🏻 to Aaron ji and the legacy of chess passion is taken ahead now with sagar bhai and Saravanan sir.

[@narsubramanian]

He used to have a publication called Rain Tree publications, where he would locally publish international chess books which were difficult to come by in the 80's and 90's.

[@pratickkkk]

This is such an inspiring series

[@rajsub3884]

Manuel Aaron is unsung chess hero

[@gautamraj2483]

pure legend..!

[@avishkaratyalakar1406]

Sara is the man that should be heard more

[@Anurag_M.S]

Waiting for next video ☺️🤠

[@praveenraja2201]

Hats off sagar for sharing this video ....Very informative 😊

[@b7781]

Sagar please use sound normalisation when recording due to volume spikes

[@JayanthJSamuel]

Congratulations & all the best to him !

[@Chandrikap-nh5kw]

I am studying in Aaron chess academy run by Manuel Aaron the class is in adyar da

[@lyash8064]

we also want GM Kurenru humpy please

[@varunmundale4627]

Sarvanan Op!

[@skandbhargava7888]

He was incorrectly introduced in the Olympiad as the first Grand Master from India.

[@Anurag_M.S]

❤️❤️❤️

[@harishsp7152]

18:14

[@MrAnanthaP]

Hindu paper may have all the chess articles. And also puzzles by C G S Narayanan of AG's office who may be still alive.

[@krisgray1957]

Yes. I used to solve a lot of White to play and mate in two moves a lot. Reader of The Hindu newspaper since 1970...when I first learnt to read English.

[@whaddoiknow6519]

Not relevant to the subject matter, but it is interesting to turn on the closed captioning. It is absolutely shi**y. Manuel Aaron's name is mangled every single time -- once it is even rendered as 'nano layer'. All this so called artificial intelligence is just 'rutta' limited to regurgitating American accents. Come on Indians -- you are supposed to be the top at IT -- fix this problem.

[@seetharamankalyan]

Sagar, you cannot even pronounce Aaron correctly. Shameful and insulting