🇮🇳 World Champion Gukesh D is being honored with the prestigious Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award 2024, the highest sporting honor in India 🙌👏
This remarkable achievement was conferred by the President of India, Droupadi Murmu, in recognition of Gukesh’s outstanding contributions and achievements in chess.
@DGukesh is only the second chess player in India’s history to receive this honor. The first was 5-time World Champion Vishy Anand (@vishy64theking), who was also the inaugural recipient of this prestigious award!
Gukesh was recognized for his extraordinary performance in 2024, which included:
• Winner of the FIDE World Championship Match held in Singapore.
• Gold medal in the FIDE 45th Chess Olympiad (Open Team) held in Budapest.
• Gold medal in the FIDE 45th Chess Olympiad (Individual) held in Budapest.
Source: @rashtrapatibhvn
FIDE President Arkady Dvorkovich gave an interview to Sagar Shah from Chessbase India.
They talked about the achievements of 2024 and FIDE's exciting plans for 2025. 🏆
📺 Watch the full interview here:
https://t.co/rNKeAUqvzA
Faustino Oro se enfrenta al reto más duro de su vida. El maestro internacional de 11 años debuta el sábado en el Tata Steel, un torneo de trece rondas en el que hay nueve grandes maestros. https://t.co/jD1aqVzhqd #Ajedrez
Wrote and directed this film for Fwd by Myntra featuring the world champions- @DGukesh and @vishy64theking . Produced by us at @braindaddotco but mostly by Devarsh!
“Before Magnus, we had 130 members, which is a good size for a chess club in this country. As of now, we have about 180 members — and that’s the Magnus effect. It not only creates public interest, but a real interest in chess.” https://t.co/EtSdnBRTdB
Bruce Pandolfini is one of the most famous writers in the chess history of the US 🇺🇸 and a great coach. In 1982, Pandolfini was the chess consultant to author Walter Tevis for the novel "The Queen's Gambit". Pandolfini returned as a consultant for the 2020 Netflix miniseries of the same name!
Watch the interview he gave us during the FIDE World Rapid&Blitz Championships 👇
https://t.co/PlBysx6exb
In my newest YouTube Video, I go into some of the things which 90% of professional Chessplayers are struggling with, specifically in Europe.
Things haven't improved for a long time but it's never too late to try and make things better.
https://t.co/yOv2hVw3jN
LE ARREBATAN OTRO RÉCORD A FAUSTINO ORO
El niño de 9 años, FM Roman Shogdzhiev, obtuvo la primera norma de MI más joven en la historia, adelantando al pibe de oro por casi un mes. Quedó segundo en un torneo con performance de 2452.
Sencillamente, una bestia.
Y sí, es ruso 🇷🇺
World No.1 Magnus Carlsen, World No.2 Fabiano Caruana, India's No.1 and World No.4 Arjun Erigaisi, reigning World Champion and World No.5 Gukesh D., and China's No.1 and World No.9 Wei Yi are confirmed for Norway Chess 2025.
One spot remains. Guess who 👇