Nisha Mohota

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Nisha Mohota (born October 13, 1980 in Hinganghat , Wardha District , Maharashtra ) is an Indian chess player . She has the titles of Grand Master of Women (WGM) and International Master (IM).

Life

Nisha Mohota started playing chess at the age of seven. In Calcutta she attended the Montessori school Mahadevi Birla Shishu Vihar and the Goodricke National Chess Academy . She works for the Life Insurance Company of India in Calcutta.

successes

Championships

At the Asian Women's Individual Championship in Chennai in 2001 , which Li Ruofan won, Nisha Mohota was tied for third. In 2005 she won the Indian women's individual championship unbeaten in what was then Bangalore , ahead of Mary Ann Gomes .

She played at three Chess Olympiads for the Indian women's national team : 2004 , 2008 and 2010 . For India, she also played at the Asian Women's Championships in 2003, 2005 (on the top board), 2008 and 2009 (in the second team), on the second board behind Eesha Karavade at the 2013 Women's World Team Championship in what was then Astana and at the women's chess competition at the Asian Games 2010 .

Title and rating

For reaching two thirds of the possible points at the women's zone tournament in Madras in 1995 , she was awarded the title of International Women's Champion (WIM). By 1999 she was the youngest Indian woman to receive the WIM title. She has been the Women's Grand Master (WGM) since August 2003, the fourth Indian after S. Vijayalakshmi , K. Humpy and Aarthie Ramaswamy , who succeeded. She achieved the norms for this at the Asian individual championship for women in 2001, at an IM tournament in April 2002 in Dhaka and with overachievement at the Indian individual championship for women in January 2003 in Mumbai . She has been International Master (IM) since February 2011. She achieved the standards for the IM title at the International Open in April 2009 in Sydney , at the 4th Kolkata Open in September 2009, where she won against Grand Master Neelotpal Das and among others at the 36th Obert tournament in August 2010 in Badalona , where she defeated GM Aryam Abreu Delgado , among others .

Her Elo number is 2269 (as of May 2017), which puts her in fifteenth place in the Indian Elo ranking for women. Her highest Elo rating to date was 2416 in October 2007. At that time she was 47th in the FIDE women's rankings and fourth in the Indian women's Elo rankings.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Li Ruofan, it is . Article by Arvind Aaron from September 13, 2001 in the daily newspaper The Hindu (English)
  2. ↑ Nisha Mohota Crowned Champion Eleventh ( Memento of 4 March 2016 Internet Archive ). Article on chess-mate.com (English)
  3. ↑ Nisha Mohota's results at the women's chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  4. ↑ Nisha Mohota's results at the Asian women's team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  5. ↑ Nisha Mohota's results at the women's team championships at olimpbase.org (English)
  6. ↑ Nisha Mohota's results at the women's Asian games on olimpbase.org (English)
  7. ↑ WGM application (English)
  8. ↑ IM application (English)
personal data
SURNAME Mohota, Nisha
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian chess player
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Hinganghat