Dronavalli Harika, a Hyderabad Grandmaster, finally achieved gold at the Budapest Olympiad after competing for 20 years and in 10 editions. Despite limited preparation due to family responsibilities,

India's chess players triumphed at the 2024 FIDE Chess Olympiad, winning gold in both men's and women's events. Vidit Gujrathi, part of the victorious squad, described this achievement as the dawn of a golden era for Indian chess.

Hungarian grandmaster Richard Rapport and Dutch grandmaster Anish Giri put India’s domination at the Olympiad in perspective.

Winning a gold in the Chess Olympiad should be treated on par with any gold in Olympics, feels P. Harikrishna, the senior most member of the Indian squad (both men and women put together) which finished with a ‘golden double’ in the just-concluded Chess Olympiad in Hungary.

Vantika Agrawal, one of the players in the team, said that the India men’s and women’s teams that won gold at the 2024 Chess Olympiad in Budapest would meet PM Narendra Modi on Wednesday.

The gold medal in Chess Olympiad 2024 is a culmination of years of hard work and dedication. He expressed his ambition for India to achieve even greater heights in the world of chess.

At the Paris Olympics this summer, Indian athletes went home with zero gold medals. The country’s chess players more than made up for it at the just-completed 45th Chess Olympiad in Budapest, with both the open and women’s teams taking home the gold.

India's men's and women's chess teams achieved historic double gold medals at the 2024 Chess Olympiad in Budapest. This is the first time that India won in both the Men's and the Women's category at the same time.

Indian chess grandmaster R. Praggnanandhaa hailed India's unprecedented double gold medal win at the recently concluded Chess Olympiad, calling it a "historic achievement" that will help propel the popularity of the game across the country.

Gukesh's remarkable performance on the top board at the Chess Olympiad stood out, achieving a rating performance surpassed only once before. Divya Deshmukh became world No. 1 among junior girls with her strong play.