Anand to shooters: I've been hearing fantastic things about you

It was a moment to cherish for world champion pistol shooter Saurabh Chaudhary when he met multiple-time world chess champion Viswanathan Anand in Zagreb, Croatia, on Saturday.

The two champions ran into each other at a dinner hosted by the Indian ambassador in Croatia for the visiting sportspersons and some local Indian dignitaries.

Saurabh, 19, who won the 10m air pistol junior title at the ISSF World Championships in Changwon, South Korea, in 2018, is in Croatia with the Tokyo Olympics bound Indian shooting contingent for a camp. Anand, who held the world classical chess title from 2007 to 2013, is there to compete in the Croatia-leg of the Grand Chess Tour, to be played from July 5 to 12.

Anand told Saurabh that he has been hearing fantastic things about the shooters and hope that they would excel in the Olympics too.