Inside Chess Grandmaster Vidit Gujrathi's Wedding With Nidhi Kataria
The wedding guest list, unsurprisingly, had the who’s who of the Indian chess scene!
The chess side of the Indian Internet is abuzz with stunning videos and photos of some of the biggest names in the scene dancing their hearts out on popular Bollywood tracks. The occasion warranted it after all! Chess grandmaster Vidit Gujrathi tied the knot with his fiancée Nidhi Kataria in an intimate ceremony in Pune.
The couple shared an engagement announcement online back in November 2024.
On 2 April, Vidit and Nidhi got married at the Oxford Golf Resort in Pune, Maharashtra, surrounded by their friends and family.
In the photographs shared on Instagram by the newlyweds, the couple can be seen posing happily in their coordinated pastel pink ensembles.
“We always dreamt of a moment like this—under soft skies, surrounded by the people we love, with petals falling like blessings from above. And in this very frame, we found it — the joy, the stillness, the everything we imagined love would feel like,” he wrote in the caption.
The guest list wouldn’t have been complete without some of Vidit’s contemporaries and seniors. The who’s who of the Indian chess landscape ended up celebrating Vidit and Nidhi’s special day with them.
In now-viral videos from the wedding, 15th World Champion Vishwanathan Anand can be seen dancing his heart out on iconic Bollywood tracks with newly-crowned champion Gukesh Dommaraju on the dance floor.
Dutch Grandmaster Anish Giri and wife, International Master Sopiko Guramishvilli, were also in attendance, along with fellow Grandmasters like Sasikaran Krishnan, Adhiban Bhaskaran, and Abhijit Kunte. International Masters like Tania Sachdev, Rakesh Kulkarni and Lanka Ravi were also present.
”Getting married to the love of your life is special. But having your family and friends fly in from across continents to celebrate it with you? That’s magic,” wrote Vidit, “There’s no way to fully describe what we felt—only that time slowed down, and we’ll keep coming back to this moment, because nothing has ever felt more right.”
In less than a week, Vidit has to participate in his next major tournament, the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam in Paris. In an earlier interview, he had hinted that Paris could double as their honeymoon destination!
Here’s wishing the couple a lifetime of happiness!