The Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports confirmed the national award recipients for 2023 and doubles duo of Satwik-Chirag will get the highest honour in Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award. The timing of Ramesh’s post couldn’t have been better, as Aravindh and Pragg were playing some fine chess at the Prague International. Around the same time, the duo posted impressive wins in their third-round games against Wei Yi and Thai Dai Van Nguyen. Ramesh, widely credited for shaping the career of many champion chess players, runs the Chess Gurukul Academy in Chennai.

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Coaching didn’t just fill up a few hours of their days, teaching sport filled up a lifetime. So when the pandemic hemmed these super seniors inside their homes for the first time in their lives, these outdoor doyens of maidaan coaching were left rudderless. One used a heart ailment prescription to dodge past cops for his daily walks, another dug out five-year-old newspapers to make sense of the passage of time. On Saturday, 17 years later, Siwach, who had earlier won an Arjuna Award, received the prestigious Dronacharya Award, making her one of the few recipients of the National Sports Award as both a player and now a coach. The ceremony will be held at Rashtrapati Bhavan and the Honorable President of India will present the awards to 2024 winners. « Been working with Aravindh since he was a 11 years old (now 25) and Pragg since he was a 8 years old (now 19). They are like brothers to each other, » posted Ramesh, a recipient of the Dronacharya Award, India’s biggest honour for sports coaches.

The Romanian chess federation signed a collaboration with Ramesh in December 2022 to train players between the age of eight and 14 over six in-person sessions a year. Ramesh is also head coach of the Offerspill Chess Club in Norway, owned by five-time world champion Magnus Carlsen. Celebrated chess coach Ramesh R B shared four cheerful photos of his beloved disciples R Praggnanandhaa and Aravindh Chithambaram on social media. A naughty Pragg is climbing over his friends in a couple of pictures during training sessions. In another, Aravindh is carrying a happy young Pragg, who is six years his junior, while there is a fourth one with the youngster doing the heavy lifting.

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For example, the Chennai GM tournament is not done favouring one particular player. It’s an equal field where many strong players are participating. One of the first things Ramesh did when he turned full-time coach was to stop reading chess books.

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Only due to this, she was able to travel to various parts of the country and abroad to participate in tournaments. When asked how she manages to cope with both chess and studies, she again has a word of praise for her alma mater. Vaishali also received the Best Asian Achiever Award, 2015 and the Youth Girl Player of the Year 2016 Award from the Asian Chess Federation.

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• So, on the one hand, there is a valid concern that an official body should not encourage tournaments to be organised to favour one particular player, which I believe is very much agreeable for everyone.

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• While Sharath is the lone Khel Ratna award recipient, a total of 25 athletes including shuttlers Lakshya Sen, HS Prannoy, woman boxer Nikhat Zareen, athletes Eldhose Paul, Avinash Sable have been nominated for the Arjuna Award this year.
• “I have very fond memories of my school which not only provided me with free education but also were very lenient when it came to attendance”.
• Seventeen years ago, RB Ramesh walked into a tournament hall in Mumbai as a player and what followed changed the course of his life.

The Dronacharya Award for Outstanding Coaches in Sports and Games recognises coaching excellence and pays homage to coaches who have guided athletes to international success. It was awarded to eight individuals across two categories — regular and lifetime. Here is a detailed breakdown of the Dronacharya Award 2024 Winners List, including the names of the coaches, their respective sports disciplines, and categories. It celebrates the unsung heroes behind India’s sporting successes—coaches who work tirelessly behind the scenes to empower athletes to achieve glory on national and international stages. In December, during the IV El Llobregat Open Tournament 2023 held in Spain, Vaishali surpassed the 2500 Elo rating mark, securing her Grandmaster title and marking her as the 84th grandmaster in India and the third woman to achieve this milestone. With her younger brother Praggnanandhaa, they are anticipated to become the first sister-brother grandmaster duo in the world.

Ramesh started playing chess at the relatively late age of 12, inspired by the success of India’s description greatest chess player, Viswanathan Anand. She says “If I have come this far, the first credit goes to my parents. India’s no.1 men’s doubles duo of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty are the lone nominee for highest sporting honour – Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award. They had a successful season this year winning the Asian Badminton Championships and the Hangzhou Asian Games.

The National Sports Awards recognise outstanding performances and honour the exceptional dedication and prowess of athletes and coaches across diverse disciplines. After a long hiatus, a chess coach walked away with the Dronacharya award, with RB Ramesh — who coaches Vaishali as well as her younger brother and chess prodigy R Praggnanandhaa — winning the highest award for coaches. The top sports honour of the nation, the Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna award, was bagged by badminton players Satwiksairaj Rankireddy of Andhra Pradesh and his partner Chirag Shetty.

Praggnanandhaa, Ramesh is set to be conferred with the prestigious Dronacharya Award. Ramesh inaugurated the sixth round of the Chennai Grand Masters 2023 at the Leela Palace here on Wednesday. The Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (MAKA) Trophy acknowledges universities fostering athletic excellence at the collegiate level.