K. Sasikiran

K. Sasikiran at the 2012 Chess Olympiad in Istanbul
Surname	Krishnan Sasikiran
Association	India
Born	January 7, 1981 Madras
title	International Master (1999) Grand Master (2000)
Current  Elo rating	2647 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating	2720 ​​(May 2012)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

K. Sasikiran ( Krishnan Sasikiran ; Tamil கிருஷ்ணன் சசிகிரண், born January 7, 1981 in Madras ) is an Indian chess player .

Life

Like V. Anand, “Sasi”, as he is called by his nickname, comes from Chennai , the former Madras, in Tamil Nadu . Sasikiran didn't learn chess from his father S. Krishnan until he was ten years old. The international success of V. Anand made chess popular in India, particularly in Tamil Nadu, and thus influenced Sasikiran's chess development.

In 2002 he was awarded the Arjuna Award in the chess category. In January 2015 he received the Padma Shri order . Sasikiran is an employee of the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation .

successes

In 1995 he became Indian U18 champion. In 1996 he won the Commonwealth U18 championship in Calcutta . In 1997 he won the British Open U20 Championship (the British Open U21 Championship he won in 1998, 1999 and 2002). In 1998 he received the title of International Master , in 1999, 2002 and 2003 he was Indian individual champion. In 2000, at the Commonwealth Championship in Sangli , India , which he won, he scored his last norm for the grandmaster title , which he was awarded that same year. In 2001 he won the Hastings chess tournament and a zone tournament in Colombo , and in 2002 in Raipur and Qingdao . In 2003 he won the title of Asian Champion in Doha as well as the Politiken Cup in Copenhagen and the International Open in Bikaner . In 2005 he shared first place with Jan Timman at the Siegeman tournament in Copenhagen and Malmö . At the Asian Games in 2006 he won the gold medal with the Indian national team (with a personal Elo performance of 2925). The government of Tamil Nadu presented him with a check for 2 million Indian rupees (around € 35,000 at the time) for this success. In December 2008 he won a category 16 tournament in Pamplona . In January 2017 he won the Rilton Cup in Stockholm ahead of Sergei Wolkow and Gata Kamsky .

In January 2007 he was the second Indian after Anand to achieve an Elo rating of 2700. His highest world ranking position to date was 21st in April 2006 and January 2007.

National team

Sasikiran participated in the 1998 , 2000 , 2002 , 2004 , 2006 , 2008 , 2010 , 2012 , 2014 and 2018 Chess Olympiads . He was most successful in 2014 when he finished third with the team and came second on the third board in the individual ranking. He also took part in the World Team Championships in 2010, 2011, 2015, 2017 and 2019 in part (and reached in 2010 with the team to third place), as well as in all nine Asian Team Championships since 1999 (which he won the 2005 2009 and 2016 with India), the Chess competitions of the Asian Games 2006 and 2010 and the chess competitions of the Indoor Asian Games 2007 and 2009.

societies

With the Petroleum Sports Promotion Board team , he was Indian champion four times (1999, 2000, 2001 and 2003) and won the Asian Club Cup in 2014. He also plays in the Spanish (2005 and 2006 for CA Marcote Mondariz and 2019 for CA Solvay ) and French (2007 to 2009 for the Association Cannes-Echecs , in the 2014/15 season for Grasse Echecs ) team championships. In Croatia he plays on the top board of ŠK Zagreb , with which he became Croatian team champion in 2007 and 2008. At the European Club Cup 2007 in Kemer , playing for Zagreb on board 1, he had the best result of all players on board 1 with 6 out of 7. With the Novoborský ŠK he won the Czech team championship in 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 and 2018 . Sasikiran also took part in the European Club Cup from 2012 to 2018, winning with the team in 2013 and taking second place in 2014 and 2018, while he was second best in the individual ranking in 2014 on the fifth and in 2016 on the first reserve board Achieved individual result, third-best result on the fifth board in 2017. In China he has played for Wuxi Huafang Construction since 2012 , in Russia he played for Navigator Moscow in 2012 and 2013 . In the German Bundesliga , Sasikiran played for SV 1930 Hockenheim in the 2017/18 season .

Correspondence chess

Krishnan Sasikiran is also a very successful correspondence chess player . In 2015 he became an international (IM) and in 2016 earned international correspondence chess master (SIM). He achieved the norms for both titles at the Palciauskas Invitational Tournaments and the Marian Vinchev Memorial Tournaments in 2015 and 2016.

Web links

Commons : K. Sasikiran  - Collection of Images

• Replayable chess games by K. Sasikiran on chessgames.com (English)
• K. Sasikiran at the World Correspondence Chess Federation ICCF (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ GM Krishnan Sasikiran to receive prestigious Padma Shri Award . Article by Arvind Aaron from January 24, 2015 on Chessdom.com
2. ↑ K. Sasikiran's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
3. ↑ 43rd Olympiad Batumi 2018 Open team line-up with individual results - Open India. In: chess-results.com. October 5, 2018, accessed June 15, 2019 . 
4. ↑ K. Sasikiran's results at team world championships on olimpbase.org (English)
5. ↑ FIDE World Team Championship 2019 Team line-up with individual results. In: chess-results.com. March 14, 2019, accessed June 15, 2019 . 
6. ↑ K. Sasikiran's results at Asian team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
7. ↑ Asian Nations Cup 2018 - Open Standard Team Line-Up with Individual Results India. In: chess-results.com. August 13, 2018, accessed June 15, 2019 . 
8. ↑ K. Sasikiran's results at the Asian Games ( Memento of the original from December 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on olimpbase.org (English) 
9. ↑ K. Sasikiran's results at indoor Asian games on olimpbase.org (English)
10. ↑ K. Sasikiran's results at Asian club cups ( Memento from December 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on olimpbase.org (English)
11. ↑ ^{a b} K. Sasikiran's results at European Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)
12. ↑ K. Sasikiran's results in the Czech Extraliga on olimpbase.org (English)
13. ↑ 34th European Club Cup team line-up with individual results AVE Novy Bor. In: chess-results.com. October 24, 2018, accessed June 15, 2019 . 
14. ↑ K. Sasikiran's results at Russian team championships on olimpbase.org (English)