BUDAPEST: India created history by winning double gold at the Chess Olympiad. The Indian teams won gold in the open and women's categories at the 45th Olympiad held in Budapest, Hungary. D. Gukesh, Arjun Erigaisi, Divya Deshmukh, Vantika Agrawal and Vantika Agrawal bagged the individual gold as well.
D. Gukesh, world no. 4 Arjun Erigaisi, 12th-ranked Praggnanandhaa, Vidith Gujarati and Pentala Harikrishna, who competed in the challenger bout of the World Chess Championship, competed for India in the Open category. Sreenath Narayanan, who was a non-playing captain at the last Chess Olympiad and Asian Games, was still with the team in the same role. Grandmasters D Harika and R Vaishali, and international masters Tania Sachdev, Vandika Agarwal and Divya Deshmukh were part of the Indian women's team in the women's category. Abhijit Kunte is the non-playing captain.

The Indian team won 10 of the 11 rounds of the tournament. It was only against Uzbekistan in the ninth round that India drew. They were held to a 2-2 draw in four matches against Uzbekistan, the champions of the last Olympiad. India defeated the top-seeded United States 2.5-1.5. India also won by the same margin against third seed China. India defeated hosts Hungary 3-1. In the first two rounds, India won all four of the four boards against Morocco and Iceland.
In the women's 11 rounds, India lost only to Poland by a margin of 1.5-2.5 in the eighth round. They drew 2-2 with the United States.