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[MeshaVishwas]

I am a noob to the world of Computer Games, but I see a great opportunity to bring our Ramayana and Mahabharata into this, to influence our little ones.
Hope someone competent is working on it.
*Me after watching a new game "Black Myth Wukong" and thinking Ramayana is so much better to base a story on!

[Supratik]

22 yr old Avani Lekhara wins back-to-back Gold in shooting at the Paralympics 2024. Breaks the paralympic record. She had won in Tokyo as well where she had broken the record. India at 1 G, 1 S, 2 B on Day 2.

[chetak]

[SBajwa]

5 Gold medals so far in Paraolympics , 9 silver and 10 Bronze total 24 medals. 13th place in world, better than Japan.

[chetak]

BJP-leaning Prasoon Joshi of censor board sitting on #Emergency certificate because of Haryana polls

[Manish_P]

Religious sentiments can't be hurt... Is that the same reason why the Bangladesh cricket tour of india has not been cancelled?

[Supratik]

India finishes Paris Paralympics with 29 medals (7 golds) - its highest ever medal tally at these games. India breaks into the top 20. The Paralympics contingent has over delivered while the Olympics contingent has under delivered. We have significantly improved at the Commonwealth Games, Asian Games, Parasian Games and Paralympic games but not yet in Olympics. It means the steps taken over the last 10 years to improve sports in India have started showing results. One severe limitation is that we are limited to a few sports only. Need to broaden and deepen the base. Unless we do that our medal count will be limited.

[S_Madhukar]

Religious sentiments can't be hurt... Is that the same reason why the Bangladesh cricket tour of india has not been cancelled?

99 is spooking quite a few turncoats unfortunately they have started playing defence now. Nautankis should not be treated with kid gloves when you have people with you

[Manish_P]

Religious sentiments can't be hurt... Is that the same reason why the Bangladesh cricket tour of india has not been cancelled?

99 is spooking quite a few turncoats unfortunately they have started playing defence now. Nautankis should not be treated with kid gloves when you have people with you

Hindu, Dalit lives are worthless... surrendering on one knee seems to be reserved only for firang black lives

[SBajwa]

Asian Hockey championship (Hulunbuir, China). India played 4 matches and won all defeating Japan, Malaysia, China and Korea. Tomorrow Sep 14th 2024 (Saturday at 1:30 pm IST) India will play Pakistan who are #2 at the points table with 5 points (India has 12 and is at #1 position).

Read more at: https://www.mykhel.com/hockey/asian-cha ... able/China)

[SBajwa]

India defeats Bakistan 2-1 but Bakistani players fought (literally) with Indian players on ground getting three Yellow cards.

[saip]

China beats Pakistan and reaches final in the Asian Hockey. Did China pay Pakistani players to win?
India beats Korea 4-1 and will meet China in the final.

[Amber G.]

India defeated China with a score of 2.5 - 1.5 as GM Gukesh Dommaraju won the clutch game against GM Wei Yi!

Bravo D Gukesh!

[Amber G.]

India scored a thumping victory over Iran as GM Gukesh Dommaraju scored a great win against GM Parham Maghsoodloo with the black pieces!

[hanumadu]

We will likely play Uzbekistan, our nemesis last time, tomorrow in round 9. They are a tenacious bunch led by Abdusattarov. We will likely play USA, the top ranked team, in round 10. Our round 11 team will likely be lesser ranked, but there are no easy matches at this level. We are 8/8 with a clear two point lead over others, 3 more rounds to go. Not going to be easy.

[hanumadu]

Phew, we secured a draw against the wily ba$tard$ after some really tough fought games. We are still leading the table with 17 points with 3 teams on 15. We will likely play USA tomorrow, the number one ranked team and currently on 15. A win will most likely secure the gold. Even a draw will improve our chances of getting a gold as we have already played the toughest teams based on ranking, but there are no easy teams at this level.

[Suraj]

The loss to Poland has killed the momentum of the women's team, who've now followed it up with a draw against USA.

[Amber G.]

Phew, we secured a draw against the ...

Side notes: Unexpected result: Magnus Carlsen lost his Round 9 Chess Olympiad match and Norway are out of medal contention...
Round 10: 2 top seeds, India (#2) and USA (#1), playing against each other, and Uzbekistan (#4) facing China (#3)! (Gukesh v. Fabiano Caruana !!!)

India : sole leaders after 9 rounds with 17 points (8 wins and one draw); USA, Uzbekistan and China are 2 points behind.

In women's':
Kazakhstan are the sole leaders - with 16 points, they are one point ahead of India and 9 follow a further point behind. (India is facing China)

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[Amber G.]

Phew, we secured a draw against the ...

Side notes: Unexpected result: Magnus Carlsen lost his Round 9 Chess Olympiad match and Norway are out of medal contention...
Round 10: 2 top seeds, India (#2) and USA (#1), playing against each other, and Uzbekistan (#4) facing China (#3)! (Gukesh v. Fabiano Caruana !!!)



India : sole leaders after 9 rounds with 17 points (8 wins and one draw); USA, Uzbekistan and China are 2 points behind.

In women's':
Kazakhstan are the sole leaders - with 16 points, they are one point ahead of India and 9 follow a further point behind. (India is facing China)



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All the details;https://chessolympiad2024.fide.com/open ... gs-results

[A Deshmukh]

we are also gold medal contenders for board 1 (Gukesh), board 3 (Arjun) and Silver for board 4 (Vidit). Pragg has been playing a lot of important draws.

[Amber G.]

GM Arjun Erigaisi's latest win and as looks set to give India its first ever Chess Olympiad gold!
(Only China can still catch India on 19 points .. if India lose and China win tomorrow, when it would come down to tiebreaks!)


In the Women's Chess Olympiad final round will be exciting - with India and Kazakhstan leading, while USA and Poland are one point behind!

[Suraj]

Fantastic performance from both the men and women to beat USA and China respectively - the two top seeds. Hope they stay the course to close out both golds.

[Amber G.]

Congratulations!

[hanumadu]

India completed the formalities to win the open gold. This win is important not just for the gold but India needed to exorcise the ghosts of 2022, both for the team and especially Gukesh. I am sure, he will feel a heavy weight lifted off his chest.

[hanumadu]

Indian women wins gold too. Just awesome. Its redemption for the women's team too as they were all set to win the gold in 2022 until the final round where they lost to USA. It was heart breaking stuff.

[Supratik]

Congrats team India. One more sports cracked. Anand should also get the credit as he has set up the Westbridge Anand Chess Academy where several of these players were further trained. Hope the momentum continues. On to the world title fight.

[Suraj]

Great performance from both teams to close out the golds they were on track for. Winning their last pairings 3.5-0.5 is a strong finish. The men won by a colossal 4 point margin ultimately, with a near perfect 21 points from 11 rounds.

For at least the men's side, the story has only begun. We have three players under 25 who all have ratings of 2750ish or higher. They need to establish a USSR-like dynasty, trying to win every one of the next 5-6 Olympiads. It would be good to see the Russians back next time and for us to prevail over them so there's no question as to who is best.

Liveratings shows Arjun at 2797 and Gukesh at a mere 2794 rating. Arjun had a tournament rating performance of a comically absurd 3350 or something after the penultimate round. Is that the greatest ever rating performance in an Olympiad ?

Divya Deshmukh - the youngest member and the 2024 junior world champion - was our star in the women's section. I hope she goes on to do what Humpy could not and win the senior world title from the Chinese.

In addition to both titles we won board golds for board 1 (Gukesh) and 3 (Arjun) in the open category, and boards 3 (Divya) and 4 (Vantika Agrawal) in womens. And of course the Gaprindashvili Cup for the 2nd edition running.

[hanumadu]

I think Gukesh had a RP of 3056 and Arjun 2986.

https://chess-results.com/tnr967173.asp ... g=30&snr=2

[Suraj]

Thanks. The next ratings should have Arjun and Gukesh in the top 5, both over 2790. Scary.

Gukesh plays Ding Liren for the world title later this year. If he wins, he will be the youngest ever world champion - still 18, overtaking Kasparov's title at the age of 22.

[Amber G.]

[Amber G.]

[Suraj]

Between Pragg and Vaishali this is the first ever brother and sister Olympiad win. They're already the first such siblings to both become GM and enter the Candidates series.

[Vayutuvan]

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They should give the names too. I could see the similarity between Pragg and Vaishali and had guessed they are siblings. I want to know their names too. It would have been helpful to have the names on the poster.

[Vayutuvan]

I am posting the names here.

FIDE Chess Olympiad 2024

Gold to team India - Men (from here https://www.chess.com/events/2024-fide- ... en#players

• GM Arjun Erigaisi
• GM Gukesh Dommaraju
• GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu
• GM Vidit Gujrathi
• GM Pentala Harikrishna

Gold to team India - Women (from here https://www.chess.com/events/2024-fide- ... ad#players

• GM Harika Dronavalli
• GM Vaishali Rameshbabu
• IM Divya Deshmukh
• IM Vantika Agrawal
• IM Tania Sachdev

Why is Men's event called open and women's even called "Womens"? Does "Open" mean both men and women can participate?

[Amber G.]

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They should give the names too. I could see the similarity between Pragg and Vaishali and had guessed they are siblings. I want to know their names too. It would have been helpful to have the names on the poster.

Seriously the names are *well known* and anyone even slightly interested in current chess happenings know (or can easily know - not very hard ) them for couple of years...
(besides even in this thread.. details is given say here (along with many other references):

All the details;https://chessolympiad2024.fide.com/open ... gs-results

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Meanwhile even PM Modi, today in the mega event:

आज ही एक और बहुत अच्छी खबर में मिली है। चेस ओलंपियाड में मेंस और वीमेंस दोनों में भारत को गोल्ड मिला है। ये लगभग 100 साल के इतिहास में पहली बार हुआ है।

- प्रधानमंत्री
@narendramodi

https://x.com/i/status/1837903876256653482

[Suraj]

On Twitter there were some nice posts about Harikrishna and Harika - once child prodigies themselves but now senior members, who led India thru many fruitless Olympiad campaigns and came back without a strong enough team around them. Harika had the heartbreak of Chennai 2022 which she competed while 9 months pregnant, getting her first medal there.

Now both have the pleasure of being on all powerful teams and winning golds. Between Gukesh and Divya we have potential new men’s and women’s world champions on our hands.

Twitter are asserting Gukeshs 9/10 on board 1 with 3056 RP is the single best board performance in an Olympiad.

[hanumadu]

Twitter are asserting Gukeshs 9/10 on board 1 with 3056 RP is the single best board performance in an Olympiad.

Take it with a pinch of salt.
https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comments ... urnaments/

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Minimum 2980 elo performance or above

Sinquefield Cup 2014 - 3098 performance - Caruna 8.5/10

Olympiad 2024 - 3056 performance - Gukesh 9.0/10

Ruy Lopez Festival 2007 - 3021 performance - Sargissian 6.5/7

23rd European Team Chess Championship 2021 - 3015 performance - Firouzja 8.0/9

2nd Nanjing Pearl Spring Chess 2009 - 3002 performance - Carlsen 8.0/10

4th London Chess 2012 - 2991 performance - Carlsen 6.5/8

6th Shamkir Chess 2019 - 2991 performance - Carlsen 7.0/9

6th Grenke Chess Classic 2019 - 2983 performance - Carlsen 7.5/9

2nd Shamkir Chess 2015 - 2981 performance - Carlsen 7.5/9

Linaries 1994 - 2978 performance - Karpov 11.0/13

[Suraj]

Well, that DOES show that Gukesh had the best rating performance in an Olympiad

[Amber G.]

Sharing apicture by @StevBonhage
exhibits the emotions of both the Indian teams!

[Vayutuvan]

Seriously the names are *well known* and anyone even slightly interested in current chess happenings know (or can easily know - not very hard ) them for couple of years...

It doesn't hurt, does it? I am also not posting bandwidth consuming pictures. Just ASCII and link to FIDE website.
Please rest assured that I am not trying to take credit away from you
(I can't delete that post anymore. @Amber G. - ji, please ask an admin to delete that post if it bothering you )