SSC CPO 2020 PYQ — Question 60

SSC CPO - 24 Nov 2020 - Shift 2 • General Awareness • Q60

Viswanathan Anand, Pentala Harikrishna and Vidit Gujrathi are associated with the game of______.

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Correct answer: C

Explanation

The correct answer is option 3 i.e. chess.

  •  Viswanathan Anand recently played the Leon Masters in Spain, which included a field of Boris Gelfand, Andrey Esipenko and Jaime Santos.
  • He is currently world number 13, but rankings do not matter to him anymore. 
  • He now wants to ensure that the next wave of Indian chess players breaches the top 10; the highest-ranked Indian after Anand, right now, is P. Harikrishna at 25.