Sociologist, Fangirl, and Oxford comma believer. Thinks in Hindi film songs. "Obstinate, headstrong girl".
| DU, JNU,
@TheGendVProject
| Currently teaching |
Stop virtue signalling. Shut your services during the peak heat period, pay your "delivery partners" decent wages, give them health care and employee benefits.
Nihal is the boy who resigned in a competitive match because his opponent had lost Internet connection previously and wanted an equal footing. The world has seen his ethics and sportsmanship on full display.
What I do hope is that all this nonsense is not getting to the kid and
Let's take a moment to talk about how incredibly Vidit played in this tournament. Always went for a fight, always gave us the most exciting games. The results didn't always go his way, but when they did. Uff. Glorious!
@viditchess
Please know, we are all extremely proud ❤️❤️❤️
You know what's telling? The fact that some men in the comments are suggesting they should have planned proportions better/ engaged househelp. Just shows how these men have never entered a kitchen during family festivities.
Extended family gathered for Rakhi. At dinner time, obviously the men get served first. While they enjoy, what they didn’t know is that my aunt had to knead more dough so that the poori supply could continue unhindered from the kitchen. And then mom had to make a fresh batch of +
🚨 BIG BREAKING: 🇮🇳 Vaishali Rameshbabu is India's 84th grandmaster!
👑 She is the third female grandmaster from our country and she achieved this feat by surpassing the magical figure of 2500 during the 2023 IV Elllobregat Open.
👑 Congratulations to Vaishali and her team! 👏
On the way to work, almost in tears.... It seems like whatever happened in the last few years was leading up to this.
@DGukesh
, you absolutely wonderful, wonderful boy ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
P.S. Thanks
@ReheSamay
for introducing us to this sport.
How is everyone surprised that Oppenheimer is outselling Barbie in India? The target audience for both is the younger, English speaking population comprising majorly of tech-bros or families/ friend groups with said tech bros. These guys won't even read Austen because it's
Boy entered the metro coach running, came to girl sitting here already. They clearly know each other. He took out two flowers from his bag and gave it to her. Not a bouquet, just something he seems to have plucked. She took it blushingly. He got off at the next station. ❤️
Almost all of popular culture of the 70s/80s had the middle class person siding with the poor against the rich. Growing up in the 90s, I generally saw most common folk disgusted by the vulgarity of wealth.
Doesn't seem to be the case now. I see so many people come out with (1/2)
Okay, extremely overwhelmed and emotional right now.
@viditchess
is the first player I started watching chess for. To see him there, winning the tournament, claiming his position in the candidates and doing it with all that grace, makes me such a proud fan ❤️❤️❤️
🇮🇳 Vidit Gujrathi is the winner of the 2023
#FIDEGrandSwiss
!
Thanks to a convincing victory against Alexandr Predke in today's last round, and despite starting the tournament on the wrong foot with a loss, Vidit finishes in clear first place with 8.5 points - and clinches a
So in class today happened to mention about the chess boom and these kids, they were like "we know"! They started telling me all about how they watched Samay and Tanmay and discovered Vidit and Sagar. One kid started talking about Anand Mahindra's tweet and how Pragg
From Samay talking about Vidit for candidates and Vidit for India No.1 to all this actually materialising.... the emotions right now. This has felt so extremely personal. ❤️❤️❤️❤️🥺🥺🥺🥺
Sending tightest hugs to
@viditchess
and
@NihalSarin
today. Shout and scream if you need to, sleep it off, and come back for the Blitz. You have been amazing throughout. Only love. ❤️❤️❤️
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@viditchess
beats Nepo 2-0 and makes it to the quarter finals!!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 For once I am glad I live alone because I screamed a little too loudly!! Go Vidit Go! ❤️❤️❤️
#FIDEWorldCup
Congratulations! The Indian earthquake in Toronto is the culmination of the shifting tectonic plates in the chess world as the 17 year old Gukesh D will face the Chinese champion Ding Liren for the highest title. The "children" of Vishy Anand are on the loose!
And
@rpragchess
wins against World no.2 and World Championship finalist Ding Liren in a marathon seven hour game 🔥🔥🔥
#TataSteelChess
Also, almost 5K viewers on
@ChessbaseIndia
at 1:30 AM ❤️
And this is precisely the issue with transphobia. You reject not only trans-women but anyone who does not fit your idea of what a "woman" should be.
Khelif is a born female, who identifies as a woman, has documents saying so. She was disqualified previously for high testesterone
Have said it earlier, will day it again, Samay Vidit friendship might be the best thing that happened to the world in recent years ❤️ Samay OP, Vidit OP, this Janta OP ❤️❤️❤️
pitchforks at the even mention of giving something as basic as food or decent living wage to those in need. Since when did we as middle class Indians become so openly apathetic even vitriolic towards the marginalised? (2/2)
The way
@anishgiri
presents himself post matches is admirable. He is able to smile after wins as well as draws and losses, even joke around at his own expense at times. I don't understand a lot of chess, but I understand this is a class-act in any sport. Good luck for today!
This means that Gukesh's candidates spot is confirmed now! Arjun put in an incredible effort, but was just a whisker behind.
So, we have three Indians in the open section and two in the women's section!!! This is going to be a fun candidates!
Anastasiya: Anish is waiting for Vidit to walk back to the hotel together. He gets lost on the way easily, so he's waiting for someone to....
Vishy: to get lost with him. 😂
I am enjoying Vishy's commentary so much, but I wish sound was better on the FIDE broadcast.
THE FIRST BROTHER-SISTER DUO IN THE CANDIDATES IN HISTORY!!!! And it happens in the same year (!), the very first time the Candidates and Women's Candidates are staged together! 🤯
Vaishali and Praggnanandhaa are both Canada bound!! 🇨🇦🥳🎉😀
📷: Amruta Mokul
#chess
#womeninchess
Super proud of
@DivyaDeshmukh05
for calling out the trash comments. This is the lived experience of almost all young girls. Those like Divya who keep at it and succeed inspite of it all have to have so much resilience.
More power to you, Divya! Go fight, we are rooting for you!
I love every thing about this video but my favourite thing is Vaishali's mother covering Vidit with the flag and Tania draping and adjusting it. What a close knit and beautiful community this is.
@ChessbaseIndia
What a performance by
@ArjunErigaisi
! He now stands at world number 31 and India number 3 in live blitz ratings. Brilliant, brilliant guy! And he will keep going further, there's no doubt. 💛
.
@ArjunErigaisi
!!!! Running out of words to describe the wonders he continues to create every day. 5 back to back wins, top of the table, enters world top 100, and all other amazing things 💚🔥 🔥
#TataSteelChess
he is doing okay. Must be horrible to know this came from someone he would have looked up to.
I hope someone is there to tell him - Nihal, our heroes will fall at times. Only shows they are human. They can be wrong. We move on. We keep on with our journey.
Bharath Subramaniyam deserves some attention! After 9 rounds of play, He's only half a point behind leaders, alongside the likes of Arjun, MVL, Dubov, Radja, Vidit and the likes. Good luck to him for tomorrow!
#RapidBlitz
Oh my god, what an event! And that it went right to the last point was the best it could have gone for the viewership. Kudos to the entire team at
@ChessbaseIndia
for even conceiving this, and then mounting this, and that too on this scale!! Brilliantly done!
#deathmatch
Saw
@DGukesh
on the
@ChessbaseIndia
stream after his match. I thought the games made us proud, but the humility and sweetness with which he speaks, just makes me prouder as a fan. Chin up champ, you have been fabulous! You deserve every bit of the love you are getting.
And it's a draw in
@viditchess
vs.Magnus! Happy to report I started watching on move 35 and 36. d7 happened. Would like to officially claim the lucky factor tag😁Jokes aside, Vidit has managed to hold some of the toughest games in this tournament. Very well done!
#TataSteelChess
Random walk in Biju Patnaik Forest Park in Bhubaneswar and I found these chess benches :) It was too hot an afternoon for anyone to be playing, but of anyone wants to visit in the evenings, these looks great!
Wooooahhhh!!! GUKEEESSHHHH! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 Bests Alireza to go into the last round as the sole leader! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ The 17 year old, an inch away from winning this!
@DGukesh
OPiest of then all! 🥹🥹🥹🥹
#FIDECandidates
Can the government do themselves a favour and award the Bharat Ratna to Anand already. At this point, the award will be honoured to have him, not vice versa.
#BharatRatnaForVishy
Vidit and Anish make jokes and have dinner together, then go and play a crazy no holds barred game, and once drawn sit at the board discussing it just as intensely. The best kind of games, with the best kind of friendships really. 😊
#TataSteelChess
The loss was tragic. But one thing have to commend
@viditchess
on, he is there to fight! He knows nothing other than the first place matters, and tried his best to get there. Vidit, know that all the heart you are putting into the game, people are sending back to you! ❤️❤️❤️
Also, a big, big cheers to
@srinathchess
! I have always been in awe of your steady faith in
@viditchess
and the understanding and chemistry you share. Together, you two are a formidable team. I hope I am able to be half as good a friend as you, Srinath.
This is a
@TaniaSachdev
fan account. She is undoubtedly one of the best in the business. Incredibly well-prepared, so quick on her feet, switches from being funny to serious in a blink, and always entertaining 💛
Woooaaah!!! SHE'S DONE IT! GRANDMASTER VAISHALI!!!🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Star player, star performance, star person! So extrely thrilled
@chessvaishali
. All the love and cheers! ❤️❤️❤️
🚨 BIG BREAKING: 🇮🇳 Vaishali Rameshbabu is India's 84th grandmaster!
👑 She is the third female grandmaster from our country and she achieved this feat by surpassing the magical figure of 2500 during the 2023 IV Elllobregat Open.
👑 Congratulations to Vaishali and her team! 👏
beat Hikaru. Of a class of about 100, atleast 30-40 of them were talking about it excitedly! I know I keep saying this, and you guys probably already know, but it can't be stressed enough - You did good, guys! ❤️ Day made!
@ReheSamay
@viditchess
@ChessbaseIndia
Important day at work. Must log off now. But going in with the biggest smile 😀😀😀😀 Will come back and watch all the highlights and bits I missed. ❤️
Again,
@DGukesh
all my heart ❤️❤️❤️
Biggest kudos to
@ArjunErigaisi
for the Deathmatch 2.0 title. And what an incredible show by
@DGukesh
❤️ The way these two kept coming back again and again was absolutely incredible 🔥 How
@ChessbaseIndia
keeps pulling off these mind boggling events with such panache is crazy!
" I have very few friends, I have almost no friends. Maybe after tomorrow I will have no friends at all, let's hope for that. "
@anishgiri
on the 2nd round matchup with his good friend
@viditchess
.
Women's coaches in early morning metros give me so much hope. While most are still watching insta-reels. I see so many young girls reading - newspapers, classnotes, textbooks and novels. Actual paper and ink and smiles on their faces when they read something they like 💛💛💛
Sopiko is so much fun! Dare I say, a tad bit more fun than even Anish 😉 Definitely want to see her as often as possible in the commentary box 💛
@ChessbaseIndia
Very interesting responses on this. While I kind of agree with a lot of it, don't think it is only Bollywood or aspirations coming from liberalisation, which we were seeing even in the 90s. What we see now though almost an Americanised hatred for any kind of redistribution.
Absolute bonkers of a game! Kept defending with pin-point accuracy throughout, and ceased the first chance to capture the moment when he got it. Rockstar performance today
@viditchess
! Takes the tournament lead for the moment🔥🔥🔥
#tatasteelchess
Did I really see
@ReheSamay
make
@taapsee
and
@TahirRajBhasin
play four player chess? 😂 They seem to be such sports though. Would be great to see them come and play on the chess streams some day. 😊
.
@ArjunErigaisi
wins the Challengers with a round to spare and makes it to the next years Masters! What a dominating performance he has shown throughout the tournament!! 🔥🔥🔥 Many, many congratulations Arjun. It's been a pleasure to watch him play 💚
#TataSteelChess
Just came across an old
@ReheSamay
clip.
Samay: Chess ka rule hota hai centre mein khelein
Devesh: Achha... Waise, Yeh centre kahaan pe hota hai?
Rahul subramanian: Ek dum kone mein 😂😂😂😂😂
How I miss these!
What a game between
@viditchess
and Ding Liren! Both the players fought in the toughest of the situations. And Kasparov shouting "Bravo" is something Vidit would treasure forever.
#ChessSuperLeague
Congrats to
@rpragchess
for winning his game in the last round of
#TataSteelChess
Masters. This was the toughest tournament of his career, and to get 3 wins in this field is simply fabulous! More importantly, I am sure he takes back tons of experience and memories. 😀
"A win is like two draws, so it's better than a draw"-
@viditchess
😂😂😂
And amen to that chess dream at the end coming true soon!
@ChessbaseIndia
Team might be on their drawing boards planning somthing out already 😄
'A win is like two draws, so it's better than a draw'😅.
@viditchess
gets his 1st win in the 2024 Masters against Alireza Firouzja in round 7!
#TataSteelChess
By the way, we also won the Gaprindashvilicup (Best team in opne and women section combined)! India A (1st position) and India B (3rd position)!! 🔥🔥🔥
#ChessOlympiad
#ChennaiChess2022
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@DGukesh
just won his classical game, and within minutes is now playing for his team to qualify in the finals of
#ChessSuperLeague
. The more I watch, the more I am in awe of these juniors. 💛
DIVYA DESHMUKH WINS THE SHARJAH CHALLENGERS!!!!!! 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳
It's the best win of an open by any woman I think since Lei Tingjie won the Sevilla Open in 2018! 🤯
📷: Aditya Sur Roy
#chess
#womeninchess