{
  "id": 1898143,
  "title": "Nashik: Chess Grandmaster Vidit Gujrathi Conferred With Arjuna Award After Rising To India’s Top Chess Ranks",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/19/nashik-chess-grandmaster-vidit-gujrathi-conferred-with-arjuna-award",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-19T08:09:42.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Press Journal",
    "slug": "free-press-journal",
    "url": "https://www.freepressjournal.in/pune/nashik-chess-grandmaster-vidit-gujrathi-conferred-with-arjuna-award-after-rising-to-indias-top-chess-ranks"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Nashik: Nashik-born chess Grandmaster Vidit Santosh Gujrathi has been selected for the prestigious Arjuna Award for his outstanding contribution to sports. Two chess players from Maharashtra—Vidit Gujrathi and Grandmaster Divya Deshmukh—have been selected for the honour. Vidit has been associated with chess since the age of six. In 2013, he became India’s 30th young Grandmaster, and after 13…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}