Gukesh D. is one of the most outstanding chess player of the country. His achievements are, —
A. Gold medal in FIDE World Chess Championship held in Singapore in 2024.
B. Gold medal in FIDE 45th Chess

Question

Gukesh D. is one of the most outstanding chess player of the country. His achievements are, —
A. Gold medal in FIDE World Chess Championship held in Singapore in 2024.
B. Gold medal in FIDE 45th Chess Olympiad (Open Team) held in Singapore in 2024.
C. Gold Medal in FIDE 45th Chess Olympiad (Individual) held in Budapest in 2024.
Consider the above statements and select the correct statements.

UnlockIAS · Accepted Answer

Correct — option (3), 'Only A, C'. Statement A is accurate: Gukesh D. won the FIDE World Chess Championship 2024, held in Singapore from late November into December 2024, defeating the defending champion Ding Liren of China in the final game to become, at eighteen, the youngest ever undisputed World Chess Champion. Statement C is also accurate: at the 45th FIDE Chess Olympiad, held in Budapest, Hungary, in September 2024, Gukesh played first board for India's Open team and earned an individual gold medal for his board-one performance, in addition to India's team result. Statement B is the one that fails, and it fails on a single, precise detail — the venue. The 45th Chess Olympiad's Open team event, in which India won the gold medal, was held in Budapest, Hungary, not in Singapore. Singapore is where the separate World Chess Championship match took place a few months later; Budapest is where the Olympiad, a country-versus-country team event with its own individual board prizes, was held. Because statement B places the Olympiad in the wrong city, it is false, and only A and C, which correctly separate the two events and their two venues, survive together.

Why the other options are wrong — (a) Keeps the World Championship statement, which is correct, but also credits the Olympiad team statement with the wrong venue. The 45th Chess Olympiad's Open team event was held in Budapest, not Singapore — Singapore hosted the separate World Chess Championship match later in the year.  (b) Correctly keeps the Olympiad individual-gold statement, which is accurately located at Budapest, but also credits the Olympiad team statement with the wrong venue, Singapore, and drops the World Championship statement, which is correct as printed.  (d) Requires the Olympiad team statement to be true alongside the other two, but it places the 45th Chess Olympiad in Singapore when the event was actually held in Budapest, Hungary. Two of the three statements share the correct facts about Gukesh's achievements; the third misplaces the venue of a real event rather than describing a fictitious one, which is what makes it a plausible-looking error.

Concept: 2024 was the year Gukesh D. established himself at the top of world chess through two distinct events that this question is built to keep separate. The 45th FIDE Chess Olympiad, a biennial team tournament in which national squads compete board by board, was held in Budapest, Hungary, in September 2024; India's Open team, with Gukesh on board one, won the gold medal, and Gukesh separately earned an individual gold for his own board-one performance. Later that year, the FIDE World Chess Championship 2024 — a one-on-one match for the individual world title, unconnected to the Olympiad's team format — was held in Singapore, where Gukesh defeated the reigning champion Ding Liren to become, at eighteen, the youngest undisputed World Chess Champion in history.

State PCS 2025 Q88 — Current Affairs PYQ with Answer

State PCS 2025 Q88 — Current Affairs PYQ with Answer