Ask for trivia involving the history of Indian chess and it is entirely possible that the answer invariably points in the direction of Viswanathan Anand. He is, after all, the man who became the first grandmaster from India, was the first Indian to win the World Junior Chess Championship, became the first senior world champion from India, and is the first Indian to be World No 1. But there was one feat that another Indian chess player achieved long before Anand had the chance to. At the 1980 Olympiad in Malta, when Anand would have been just 11 years of age, Mohamed Rafiq Khan bagged India its first-ever medal — a silver — on the third board at the Chess Olympiad. Khan was a carpenter who fell in love with chess after learning the sport on the patiyas of Bhopal. Courtesy: Madhya Pradesh Chess Association/Akshat Khamparia The Chess Olympiad, first held in 1927, is the most prestigious event for national teams in the sport. It is a collective flexing of the muscle in a sport …