Indian Grandmaster Vidit Gujrathi, captain of the Indian group that received the Online Olympiad Gold in 2020, has introduced his retirement from skilled chess on the age of 27. The announcement got here, months after he reached a career-high dwell ranking of 2740.
“I have struggled to bring home the results. It’s not just recently but it’s something that has been happening since a long time. I crossed the Elo barrier of 2700 in 2017, and it’s been over 4 years and I have been oscillating between the 2710-2730 mark. It’s tiring,” Gujrathi mentioned in an interview with chessbase.in on Friday.
“The lifetime of a chess participant could be very scattered. You should be touring every so often to play tournaments. Hence, it turns into very troublesome to spend time with the one you love,” he mentioned.
India No 2 had additionally reached the quarter-finals of the FIDE World Cup 2021. The 27-year-old mentioned that the Chess as a sport is a really lonely endevaour and at current he lacks motivation for the sport and each coaching session seems like a drag.
“Chess is a very lonely endeavour. And not just while playing, also while training. You have to sit for hours by yourself trying to find new ideas in different openings, only to realize that there is a dead-end at the end of a long variation. I am unable to force myself to find the motivation to work as I did in the past,” mentioned Gujrathi, probably the greatest abilities of Indian chess.
Gujrathi additionally accepted that taking a break from the game would have solely delayed the inevitable.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
