Kruttika Nadig

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Kruttika Nadig (born February 17, 1988 in Bombay ) is an Indian chess player .

Life

After studying at Symbiosis College in Pune , Kruttika Nadig studied economics at Jyothi Nivas College in Bengaluru , formerly Bangalore. She then studied journalism and worked for the business newspaper The Economic Times. She learned the rules of chess from her mother, a school principal and English teacher. Her first chess trainer was Mohan Phadke in Pune, she was also trained by Raja Ravi Sekhar. Your current chess trainer (as of 2008) is T. Purushottaman.

successes

In 2003 she won the Indian youth championship and played for the Indian girls 'national team at the U16 Olympics in Denizli (India was one of two associations that also participated with a girls' team, along with Turkey). In 2004 she won the Indian Junior Championship. In the same year she received the Infosys Young Achiever Award in the U18 category. In December 2008 she won the 35th Indian Women's Championship in New Delhi, one point ahead of Tania Sachdev . In August 2009 she won a zone tournament in New Delhi in front of Tania Sachdev . For the Indian women's national team, she played in 2009 both at the World Team Championship in Ningbo and at the Asian Team Championship in Calcutta , in which she finished second with India.

Since August 2005 she has held the title of International Women's Champion (WIM). She reached the standards for this at the 30th Indian Women's Championship in Kozhikode in November 2003 , at the World Junior Championship in November 2004 in Kochi and at the A-Open in Pardubice in July 2005. She was the first woman from the state of Karnataka to win the WIM Title received. In 2008 she met in June at the International Open in Sort (Lleida) , in July at the 13th Ciutat de Balaguer and in December at the 35th Indian Women's Championship for the women's grandmaster title (WGM), which she was awarded in March 2009. Her Elo rating is 2142 (as of February 2019), but she is listed as inactive because she did not play a rated game after the London Chess Classics women's tournament in December 2013. Her highest rating to date was 2387 in October 2008.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Kruttika Nadig Reaches A Milestone on the All India Chess Federation website ( Memento from June 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  2. Kruttika Nadig is National champion in The Hindu from December 29, 2008 (English)
  3. Kruttika Nadig's results at U16 Olympics on olimpbase.org (English)
  4. WIM Kruttika Nadig wins India National A chess championship on chessdom.com (English)
  5. Kruttika Nadig's results at the women's team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  6. Kruttika Nadig's results at Asian women's team championships at olimpbase.org (English)
  7. WIM application to FIDE (English)
  8. WGM application to FIDE (English)