Vidit Gujrathi Marries Nidhi Kataria, World Champions Dance At Wedding
GM Vidit Gujrathi married Nidhi Kataria on April 2 at the luxurious Oxford Golf Resort in Pune, India. The 30-year-old grandmaster is currently number 25 in the world on the live rating list, and Nidhi, 28, is a homeopathic doctor. The couple broke the news of their engagement in November of last year, and it has been a highly anticipated event in the chess world for months.
Not accepting rishtas anymore, It’s official now ! ♥️
— Vidit Gujrathi (@viditchess) November 25, 2024
Getting married soon!pic.twitter.com/NWe267LdOu
The day had finally come. A number of grandmasters and prominent chess players, including 15th World Champion Viswanathan Anand and 18th World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju, didn't hesitate to break it down on the dance floor, as you can see in the video below.
Beautiful moment from GM Vidit Gujrathi's wedding! 🥳
— Chess.com (@chesscom) April 3, 2025
Look closely and you'll find Vishy, Gukesh, Anish, Tania, Sagar, and more 😆 pic.twitter.com/ppLlkZjYMi
The combined Elo at Vidit's Baraat (a celebratory wedding procession) was a rare sight to behold.
🤩 Chess legends danced in @viditchess's Baraat! pic.twitter.com/j1eajUrq9G
— Chess.com - India (@chesscom_in) April 3, 2025
GM Anish Giri and his wife IM Sopiko Guramishvili traveled from the Netherlands and arrived early to go shopping for festive, traditional clothing. You can check out IM Sagar Shah's vlog about the experience, which started with picking them up from the airport at 2 a.m.
Hundreds of people attended, and we saw the who's who of the Indian chess scene, as prominent chess-playing guests included GMs Arjun Erigaisi, Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu, Abhimanyu Puranik, Sasikiran Krishnan, Adhiban Baskaran, Sethuraman S.P., Abhijit Kunte, GM Vishnu Prasanna & WIM Raghavi N, IMs Tania Sachdev, Rakesh Kulkarni, Konguvel Ponnuswamy, Krishnater Kushager, Lanka Ravi, Sagar and Amruta Mokal, FM Sajjandas Joshi, and CM Raghunandan Gokhale.
Other notable guests were Anand Deshpande (founder and CEO of Persistent Systems, also Vidit's sponsor), Jeet Banerjee (Tournament Director of Tata Steel Chess India), and Avadh Shah (Country Director, Chess.com India).
Vidit has less than a week before his next tournament. After winning the grueling, three-day qualifier last month, he earned a spot in the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Paris, which starts on Monday, April 7. He said in the interview that they'll probably celebrate their honeymoon in Paris, too! And, hopefully, the festivities will leave him in a beaming mood to play great chess. He said:
It’s an Indian wedding, it’s not just one day, it goes on for a week, but I’ll have a lot of happy emotions, so I think that’s my preparation, just being happy and in a good mood—maybe that’ll help!
Congratulations to the newlyweds! You can check out their beautiful video below!
