Nashik-based GM Vidit Gujrathi created history by becoming the first
chess player from Maharashtra in the boy’s category to win a medal at
World Junior chess championship in Kocaeli, Turkey, on 26 September
.With Yu Yangyi winning the gold, the silver went to Alexander Ipatov of
Turkey who defeated Aleksander Indjic of Serbia in the final round.
With this win Vidit Gujrathi joined the list of elite Indians winning
medals in the world junior champions starting from a gold medal won by
world champion V Anand in 1987, gold by Harikrishna in 2004, gold by
Abhijeet Gupta in 2008 and Bronze by Sahaj Grover in 2011.
