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Tania Sachdev (born 20 August 1986[1]) is an Indian chess player, who holds the FIDE titles of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM). She is also a chess presenter and commentator.

Tania Sachdev
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Sachdev in 2016
CountryIndia
Born (1986-08-20) 20 August 1986 (age 37)
Delhi, India
Title
FIDE ratingTemplate:Elo rating Template:Elo rating 2392
Peak rating2443 (September 2013)

Early yearsEdit

Born in Delhi, Sachdev was introduced to the game by her mother, Anju, at the age of 6.[1] Her parents provided her with professional training. She achieved her first international title when she was eight. She was coached by K.C. Joshi during her early years. As a child, Tania Sachdev won multiple events. Her career successes are under-12 Indian champion,[2] Asian U14 girls' champion in 2000[3] and bronze medalist at the 1998 World Youth Chess Championships in the Girls U12 division.[4] In 2002, she won the Asian Junior Girls Championship in Marawila.[5]

 
Sachdev in 2014

National and international acclaimEdit

In 2005, Sachdev became the eighth Indian player to be awarded the Woman Grandmaster title. She won India's National Women's Premier Chess Championship in 2006 and 2007. In 2007, she also won the Women's Asian Chess Championship with 6½ points out of nine rounds in Tehran.[6] She was conferred with the Arjuna Award in 2009. In 2016, Sachdev won the best woman's prize at the Reykjavik Open[7][8] and won the Commonwealth women's champion title in Kalutara.[9]

She has played for the Indian national team in the Women's Chess Olympiads since 2008, the Women's World Team Chess Championship in 2009 and 2011, the Women's Asian Team Chess Championship since 2003, the 2006 Asian Games, and the 2009 Asian Indoor Games. Sachdev won the individual bronze medal for board 3 at the 2012 Women's Chess Olympiad in Istanbul, four team silver medals (in 2008, 2009, 2012, and 2014) and four individual ones (three silver and one bronze) at the Women's Asian Team Championship.[10]

In 2015, Sachdev won a silver medal in the Asian Continental Women's Rapid Chess Championship.[11]

Sachdev has presented a Fritztrainer Strategy DVD for Chessbase and was a member of the official commentary team for the 2013 (Chennai) World Championship Match between Magnus Carlsen and Viswanathan Anand.[12] 2019 Commonwealth Women's Champion (Defended her title).

Personal lifeEdit

Sachdev completed her schooling at Modern School in Vasant Vihar in Delhi and did her graduation at Sri Venkateswara College.[citation needed]

She is sponsored by Red Bull.[13] She married Delhi-based architect Viraj Kataria in November 2014.[1][14]

ReferencesEdit

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Tania Sachdev". Red Bull. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
  2. ↑ "Tania Sachdev joins the Chessdom commentators team". Chessdom. 6 November 2013. Retrieved 20 November 2013.
  3. ↑
  4. ↑ "World Championship in U18 categories. 25/10-7/11/1998". chess.gr. Archived from the original on 26 December 2019. Retrieved 28 January 2016.
  5. ↑ "Deepan and Tania Champs, India sweeps all the titles". 25th Asian Juniors 2002, Sri Lanka. Colombo. Retrieved 7 November 2015 – via Tripod.
  6. ↑ "12th Asian Women Indevidual [sic] Chess Championship". Chess-Results.com. Retrieved 14 June 2021.
  7. ↑ Ramirez, Alejandro (20 March 2016). "Indian success in Iceland". ChessBase.
  8. ↑ "Abhijeet wins Reykjavik Open; Tania makes Grandmaster norm". The Times of India. 17 March 2016. Retrieved 31 August 2016.
  9. ↑ Jayaratnam, Narayanaswamy (19 August 2016). "Gupta and Sachdev overall champions of Commonwealth Open Chess". Daily News. Retrieved 31 August 2016.
  10. ↑ "OlimpBase :: Women's Chess Olympiads :: Sachdev Tania". OlimpBase. Retrieved 14 June 2021.
  11. ↑ Aug 12, PTI / Updated; 2015; Ist, 21:12. "Tania Sachdev wins silver in rapid chess | Chess News - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 3 July 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  12. ↑ Shah, Sagar (4 July 2014). "Improve Your Chess With Tania Sachdev". Chess News. ChessBase. Retrieved 5 September 2016.
  13. ↑ Iyer, Sundari (8 June 2014). "Don't mind being called a chess hottie: Tania Sachdev". Mid-Day.
  14. ↑ Bhalla, Ankita (4 November 2014). "Chess champ Tania Sachdev ties knot with Viraj Kataria in Delhi". The Times of India.

External linksEdit

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