Delhi: Indian chess grandmaster, Vidit Gujrathi on Viswanathan Anand says, I think many of the players in India are inspired by him. He is a legend of the game. And the sweet moment was that we were handed all the medals by him at the closing ceremony. So it was like a full circle and we could celebrate the moment with him. It was one of the best days I can say. He took out time from his busy schedule so I am very grateful. And it's so nice to see that he is encouraging sports players when they do well.
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00:00It was a historic achievement because we were trying for many years, but the best we could do was one.
00:06And not only we won in the open section, but also in the women's section at the same time.
00:10Only three countries have been able to do that before.
00:13And now we showed that India is a superpower and we are the number one country in chess.
00:18Two, three critical moments. One was the match against China.
00:21They were trailing us and we won that match after six hours of long fight.
00:25So that was very critical. Mukesh played a very important role.
00:28And then in the USA match penultimate round, they were almost about to catch up.
00:32They were two points behind if we had lost.
00:34But we won that match convincingly and secured gold medal almost round to square.
00:40So it was a smooth journey I would say.
00:43I think many of the players in India are inspired by him.
00:46He is a legend of the game.
00:48And the sweet moment was that we were handed all the medals by him at the closing ceremony.
00:53So it was like a full circle and we could celebrate the moment with him.
00:57It was one of the best days I can say.
01:00He took out time from his busy schedule. So I am very grateful.
01:03And it's so nice to see that he is encouraging sports players when they do well.
01:06I think lot of young people will take up sports looking at this.
01:09That sports is encouraged in India and I am so grateful to him for taking out time.
01:14Yeah, we spoke for many minutes. We had like an hour long discussion almost.
01:18And we spoke about the mental aspect of the game and the physical aspect.
01:23Then also we had some life hearted moments.
01:25He just made us very comfortable there.
01:27So I am very grateful and I think when the video is out people will get to see a lot of discussion which happened.
01:34I think it was just a lot of motivation not only for me but for the entire team.
01:39That if you do well the government is going to stand behind you and support you in this journey.
01:45I think it just showed that India can be the world champions.
01:49And going ahead gold will be the expectation.
01:53I am sure we will win a lot of gold medals going ahead.
01:55But the first one will always remain special.