The vlog, filmed at Cheque’s corporate office in HSR Layout, Bengaluru, documents a special event welcoming the Mumbai Masters for Season 4 of the Global Chess League. The host walks viewers through Cheque’s office culture—highlighting a values floor with visual representations of company principles, nap pods, a QR‑based check‑in system, and collaborative spaces. The narrative then shifts to Cheque’s business story: a belief that credit access is expanding in India, evolution from credit‑card bill payments to utility payments, loans, and an AI‑driven credit advisor. The company now serves roughly 5 million users, processes about $800 million in monthly payments, and ranks as the third‑largest platform for credit‑card bill payments in India. The vlog introduces key chess personalities attending the event—former world #2 “Shaq,” Grandmaster Harika, rising Asian champion Badiya, coach/manager Sureshika Ganguly, and content creator Sagar, who runs one of the world’s largest hard‑chess YouTube channels. Short interview snippets and informal banter cover player achievements, team roles, and predictions about upcoming world championships. The host intersperses chess analysis (e.g., a 2015 Caruana‑Shaq game) with audience interaction, creating a blend of corporate branding, community building, and chess enthusiasm.
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Hello everyone from Namma, Bengaluru. We are here for the Season 4 of Global Chess League. We are standing at the Cheque corporate office in HSR Layout, Bengaluru, and there's a special event happening today. Mumbai Masters have a new naming and principal partner for Season 4, and that is Cheque. Cheque is India's one-stop platform for everything credit. Today, Cheque has organized a special program to welcome the Mumbai Masters team. Check out this vlog and enjoy. Known actually as the value floor. So what you see on the 6 values that are there, every image has a depiction of the value in the company. For example, what you see is a dolphin is loves customers, plays for the customer. So it's customer centricity. This is the sleeping pods. So people, when they've been working for a day very hard, they can just come and chill, take a nap for some time, and just go back to work. But yeah, but this So it's such a such a unique and now an integral part of where I work every day. This is going to be you can come and drop in your names here. So if you want to have a poker night or if your battery is low, you want to go for so then team members can form together and just go in the evening. Like it's very aesthetically designed in terms of the meeting rooms. The two co-founders actually sit here. So so this is the sound of check-in. Every table there is a QR code. So anybody can come scan the QR and what A thumbprint will go here, and your name will go here. And then whether you are in check tomorrow, today, wherever, right? You'll always be part of the journey that that you have built and helped us build. This is the Bangalore Cross Check floor. If you see right in front, this is how check is integrated into the journey of Bangalore. Hi, hi, hi, how are you? Hi. हाँ वो लेकर हाँ Um, we started with a very simple belief that credit access in India was growing. So the journey started there from credit card bill payments to utility payments like electricity, water, but focus was only on credit. Then we started loans, that is income and access loans. Then we built our own AI product where it was a credit advisor. You can ask any question, it will help you. And now as I said, around 5 million users. On our platform, at a monthly level, we do close to $800 million of payments per month. Wow. So, and we're now the third largest platform with respect to credit card bill payments in India. So, and, and people call him Shaq. He is the former world number 2. He's also a member of the extraordinary 2800+ club in the FIDE ratings. Harika, a story that has been followed not only in the world of chess in India, but just, just as a sports athlete, what you've been able to do in India, it's been absolutely phenomenal. She's of course a grandmaster, an Olympiad gold medalist, and one of the defining Indian women chess players who have actually paved way for the next generation to come and fall in love. This competition also has this unique element of having a young rising superstar who is expected to come and change the world of chess tomorrow. With us, we have Badiya. He's an Asian champion just at the age of 20. We also have Sureshika Ganguly. In a different role, but at least what I used to see him, he is the manager and coach of the team. What is that? Team captain. Team captain. Apologies. But what I know much better of him, he is a 6-time Indian championship winner. He has been an elite GM for as long as I can remember. But interestingly, he was one of the few guys who earned Trusted for for him to be in his core team for multiple world championships that he that he defended and won. So, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. And we closed the contract in blitz. So, thank you for hearing. For all your questions, Sagar is actually one of the very very large reason apart from what what phenomenal chess players have brought in to take chess to every Indian household. What Sagar did. In the COVID era, and since then has been nothing short of phenomenal. Just to follow, to see him, you know, celebrating 200K subscribers to a million subscribers to now he is going bonkers. He today has the world's third largest YouTube channel on hard chess, and what better to start than to just check how well do you guys know each other? Who prepares the Who relies most on instincts rather than calculations? Who is most different away from the board? Who would you trust to play one game if your life is on the line? I think it's a bad day. I'm not going to chew the mic right now because this is not an auction. So it's not just about bad and good moves. It's about winning, you know, fighting, to have that fighting spirit. But when we are playing a game, we are completely exposed. So in an uncertain moment, whatever is my core nature, which only Surya knows, nobody else— my parents do not know, my spouse will not know, my kids will not know— that core nature reflects whatever I'm comfortable with, uncomfortable with. But Shaq played the 2 most ruthless, beautiful moves to win here. It is round 4, is game 1, and 21 September 2015. Wow! Against? Against Caruana. Um, Harika, this is you. This is against who you found? The good move. I knew, you know, computers say Hikaru's good move. It has been played by Shirov. Dukesh and Sundaro are playing this year. Um, I want quick predictions from each one of you. Are we going to be seeing a new world champion, or we will have the same world champion retaining the crown? Maybe this could be, uh, you know, counterintuitive That since he is clever, maybe position actually is a bit— the player is not clear for me what will happen because both are medium. They have all the resources to work hard and to develop the position. Yeah, how did they— I don't want to say badly, but he just blundered too much. But this world championship must have something different because if you will start good, you can make up some psychological moments. For this reason, the world championship must— I think there's something different. Yes. Like world champion, I think Mukesh will be because it's I mean he always playing very well when he's playing for India. A big welcome to you all, your entire team on behalf of Ronnie, on behalf of myself and our entire sporting family. So welcome. एक साल लेटा करते हैं ना? इतना ही पे लेट था। No, change five. Change five. Sorry. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Come on, take two guys. Let's go. Of course we do. You have to pass. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Okay. Hold on, hold on. Okay. थोड़ा पीछे। Why are you okay? Thank you.
