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[Women's Chess Coverage @OnTheQueenside]

THE MOST DESERVING GOLD MEDALLIST! 🇮🇳🥇
Congrats to Savitha Shri on winning Board 5 gold! 🥳🎉😀

She scored a mind-boggling 9/10 (!!), but it was the importance of each of those points that made her Olympiad so special! 👏👏

📷: M Walusza

[Ian Raphael Bishop @irbishi]

15000 ODI runs: That’s an air of rarified greatness. Congrats to Virat Kohli.

[Narendra Modi @narendramodi]

Congratulations to our Chess players! Their passion and determination are exemplary.

May these successes motivate several more youngsters to play chess and excel.

[Kevin Pietersen🦏 @KP24]

55 ODI 100s for Virat!!!!

55?!?!?!?!

Many cricketers have good careers by just playing 55 games.

He Is A Genius and I’m buzzing for him! ❤️

[Nitin Narang @narangnitin]

Six individual medals. And a historic hat trick for India! 🇮🇳

🥇 B Savitha - Gold
🥈 Divya Deshmukh - Silver
🥉 Vantika Agrawal - Bronze
🥉 Koneru Humpy - Bronze

🥈 D Gukesh - Silver
🥉 R Praggnanandhaa - Bronze

And once again, India wins the Nona Gaprindashvili Cup for the best combined performance across the Open and Women’s sections.

Chennai 2022. Budapest 2024. Samarkand 2026.

Three Olympiads. Three consecutive Gaprindashvili Cups. 🇮🇳

Indian chess isn’t just producing champions, we are building an era.

@narendramodi @mansukhmandviya @PMOIndia @Media_SAI @FIDE_chess @aicfchess @ChessbaseIndia @chessgmkunte @srinathchess
@DGukesh @rpraggnachess @swayams2150 @savithachess @DivyaDeshmukh05 @humpy_koneru @vantikachess

[ICC @ICC]

India veteran Virat Kohli sets his eyes on helping India cross the finish line at #CWC27 👀

Read more ➡️ https://t.co/xcMyRmhHtt

[Dinda Academy @academy_dinda]

That’s the last of anyone getting to 15k runs and this is the closest anyone can ever come to Tendulkar’s record in ODIs🙇🏼‍♂️

[BCCI @BCCI]

Fastest to 1⃣5⃣0⃣0⃣0⃣ ODI runs ✅

Congratulations to Virat Kohli on becoming the second player to achieve the feat after Sachin Tendulkar 👏👏

Updates ▶️ https://t.co/O2cs86p4gq

#TeamIndia | #INDvWI | @mflone_ | @imVkohli

[ChessBase India @ChessbaseIndia]

Savitha Shri Baskar, the clutch Queen wins Individual Gold medal on Board 5 at the Women's Chess Olympiad 2026!

Photo: FIDE/Rafal Olekisiewicz

[Anish Giri @anishgiri]

The amount of parties in Samarkand at this Olympiad is truly record breaking.

My hotel room has been vibrating for days already and if not for my newly found passion for meditation, good sleep would have been a real challenge.🤣

[Sagar @sagarcasm]

Only two cricketers in the 15,000 runs club in ODIs

[Susan Ninan @ninansusan]

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BRONZE for India in the women's section.
Koneru Humpy scored India’s only win against Georgia, Divya Deshmukh lost and Vantika Agrawal drew. It all came down to Savitha Shri. The 19-year-old fought back from a losing position to equalise and carry the top-seeded Indian team to the podium at the Fide Chess Olympiad.

A phenomenal tournament from Savitha with a score of 9/10.

[anand mahindra @anandmahindra]

The Alchemy of Indian Chess…

In chemistry, Silver is a true noble metal, and Bronze is an alloy forged by bringing elements together.

Honestly, what a fitting metaphor for how our teams played.

Open Team - Silver
Women’s Team - Bronze

Backing up a double-gold performance at the last Olympiad with another double podium at this edition shows real depth.

It’s proof that India’s chess ecosystem is strongly consistent and just keeps producing world-class talent year after year.

Massive congrats to both teams on keeping us at the top! 🇮🇳✨

[Mayank Chaudhary @_mayyyank]

India vs Uzbekistan rivalry in chess!

2020 Olympiad (Online):
🇮🇳 India: Gold 🥇

2022 Olympiad (Chennai):
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan: Gold 🥇
🇮🇳 India (B): Bronze 🥉

2024 Olympiad (Budapest):
🇮🇳 India: Gold 🥇
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan: Bronze 🥉

2026 Olympiad (Samarkand):
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan: Gold 🥇
🇮🇳 India: Silver 🥈

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

I think @edsheeran needs better friends. The way they’re all so gleefully chucking him under the bus, along with members of his own family, is repulsive.

[ChessBase India @ChessbaseIndia]

6.0/6! Savitha Shri - what a player for Team India!

Photo: Michal Walusza/FIDE

[Hariom kamad @HariomK61498]

Roger Federer picks up a table tennis bat for the first time and starts looping topspin forehands like he’s been doing it for 20 years. 😂🏓

The racket-sport IQ is simply different.

This is why tennis is the KING of racket sports. 👑🎾

[Vidit Gujrathi @viditchess]

Chess rating system worked well for many years but now it’s not the most accurate measure of current strength. It needs a revival imho.

For example: if Arjun & Praggnanandha play a match, and Pragg gets all 10 games as White, the rating will be calculated on equal terms, whereas in reality the odds of matches change drastically as White has significant advantage in long run.

That’s just one obvious weakness. No effects of Inactivity is another one.

[Chess.com - India @chesscom_in]

Gukesh in pain after Nihal's blunder!

[anand mahindra @anandmahindra]

Heartbreaking. I was waiting to cheer at what seemed like an assured victory.

But such is the beautiful unpredictability of this game & indeed sport in General…

Keep up your spirit @NihalSarin

The tournament is far from over…