Mar 17, 2025 07:48 PM IST
Viswanathan Anand handed his verdict on India’s youthful GMs like D Gukesh, Arjun Erigaisi.
India has been highflying in chess just lately, and the icing on the cake was D Gukesh’s World Championship victory in Singapore final 12 months, the place he defeated Ding Liren. In the meantime, Koneru Humpy additionally turned the Girls’s World Fast Champion.
World Chess Champion D Gukesh, left, with former world chess champion Viswanathan Anand throughout a press convention.(PTI)
The present stay chess rankings have three Indian GMs within the top-ten, with Gukesh in third place, behind Magnus Carlsen and second-placed Hikaru Nakamura. In the meantime, Arjun Erigaisi is in fifth place and R Praggnanandhaa is eighth.
After his sensational Prague Masters marketing campaign, Aravindh Chithambaram had an enormous soar, climbing eight locations larger to World No. 14. In the meantime, India legend Viswanathan Anand has fallen to fifteenth.
Viswanathan Anand on India’s younger GMs
Just lately, Anand spoke to TV9 Telugu, the place he was requested about India’s new GMs, and he handed his verdict on the likes of Gukesh, Praggnanandhaa and Arjun.
“In some ways we already are the superpower in chess. There are many metrics by which we are. There are many measures by which some of the country is. We are not dominant like the Soviet Union used to be, but if you take for instance the age of our top players with me as an exception, well I think the oldest one is 21,” he stated.
“They’re all incredibly young which means they have a long time ahead. Second. they are all in the top 10 together or in the top 20 top 50, then the number keeps increasing. They’re all there together and can you imagine how fantastic that is for us because they will not only try to have the best results, but the moment one of them has a good result, all the others will be motivated to catch up. So they have this beautiful combination of friendship and rivalry,” he added.
Just lately, Nihal Sarin additionally climbed two spots larger within the rankings, and is presently World No. 41. In the meantime, Vidit Gujrathi is twenty fourth and Harikrishna Pentala is thirtieth.
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