D Gukesh reveals 'cool moment' when he first met Indian chess legend Viswanathan Anand

“The first time I met Vishy sir was, met maybe a strong word, but he had come to my school, and I was one of the students, who kind of welcomed him or something like that. That was a cool moment,” Gukesh, who had studied at the Velammal Vidyalaya in Chennai, said in a video posted by Freestyle Chess. Gukesh was among the first batch of players, along with Praggnanandhaa and his sister R Vaishali, to join the WestBridge Anand Chess Academy (WACA), the Soviet-style chess academy founded by Anand in December 2020.