Indian chess grandm R pragna Nanda hails this victory at Budapest and says that the grand win will help popularize the game further how emotional is this victory for you it's a huge huge moment for the entire country how big is this for you yeah it's definitely big for uh big for me and and and the country as well uh big for chess as well because um it it it is growing and um this Victory will will make it uh grow more you scor 21 out of 22 and you win by a huge margin of Four
Points I mean it has not happened before and uh many of us many of them are saying that it may not happen in future also I mean was it a magical time yeah for sure uh we didn't really I mean we wanted to give our best and didn't really didn't really think about you know about the score about the outcome and and that's why I think we are able to score uh score 2 of TR to Grand welcome at the airport prime minister Narendra Modi meeting chief minister Al MK Stalin meeting are you liking all
this yeah it's good for the game and um good to see that chess is being supported and and our achievements are being recognized and you think um this is the beginning of India's dominance in the world in chess yeah I I think um I mean not when not only the players that are playing right now but there are also a lot of talents coming up so it's it's definitely a very good generation for chess what do you think was the most defining moment in the entire tournament um yeah yeah that's for sure one of the
highlights of the event because we I mean we weren't at some point we weren't really I didn't think we were going to win the match uh I mean we we we thought that draw is also good but obviously win is much better than that and uh when gkes managed that we were all so pumped up and we welcomed him uh with a yeah with a standing ovation and uh round of appla four individual gold medals two team uh gold medals uh did it take time to sink in yeah um yeah it took time to think
in obviously what we have achieved there is is very historical um and you know we have we have been trying to win a gold medal in Olympics for a long time so and we have finally achieved it so it's uh yeah it's very good [Music] [Applause] feeling it was great celebration also and it was told in the press conference that it was your idea to celebrate it like that yeah it's not that I invented it it's just that I I saw the moments of Messi doing it and and Ro Sharma doing it so I suggested
it as an idea but uh yeah it was taken forward by V and and others so uh and um honestly I didn't think that we would be doing at the end of the day but we did manage to do it and did it give you Goosebumps I mean you getting the trophy from none other than vishwanathan Anand and uh national anthem in the background you holding the flag Indian flag uh did it gave you Goosebumps yeah for sure uh it's um you know Anan sir has been um um has been inspiring all of us so
getting a trophy from him is yeah it's a very um it's a very special moment that that can't be expressed in wordss [Music]
