Tania Sachdev

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Tania Sachdev, 2011
Association IndiaIndia India
Born August 20, 1986
Delhi
title International Master of Women (2002)
Grand Master of Women (2005)
International Master (2008)
Current  Elo rating 2392 (March 2020)
Best Elo rating 2443 (September 2013)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Tania Sachdev (born August 20, 1986 in Delhi ) is an Indian chess player .

Life

Tania Sachdev, 2008

The youngest of three children, she learned to play chess at the age of six when her father taught her brother and sister chess. She learned the moves very quickly and was able to beat her father that same year. Her mother recognized her talent and sent her to a chess teacher. After graduating from the Modern School in Vasant Vihar, a southern district of Delhi, Tania Sachdev studied literature at Sri Venkateshwara College in Delhi. She completed her studies in English literature, political science and psychology at the University of Delhi in 2008. She is trained by the international master Vishal Sareen and occasionally by the grand masters Elizbar Ubilava and Vladimir Chuchelov . In 2009 she received the Arjuna Award in the chess section . She is a professional chess player, but occasionally also works as a model and in the accounting department of Air India . She also presents and moderates high-level chess tournaments and live broadcasts.

Chess successes

In 1994, when she was seven and a half years old, she won the British U8, U9 and U10 championships as well as the British U8 and U9 girls’s championship in Norwich . This was the first time in the long history of this tournament (which has been held since 1904) that a participant could win five championship titles at the same time. In 1997 and 1998 she was Indian U12 champion, in 1999 she became U19 champion in Delhi. In July 2002 she was Asian youth champion in Marawila near Colombo . In November 2006 she got the bronze medal at the Commonwealth Championships in Mumbai . In December 2006 she won the undefeated Indian Women's Championship, which was held in Chennai . In September 2007 she won the Asian women's championship in Tehran with 6.5 points from 9 games after scoring ahead of the Chinese Ruan Lufei . She was able to defend her Indian women's championship in November 2007 in Kirkee near Pune .

In August 2005 she was awarded the title of Grand Master of Women (WGM), the standards for this she achieved at the 25th Asian Girls' Championships in Colombo in 2002 (the victory there also included the title of International Women's Champion (WIM)) and in an international one in 2004 Tournament in Abu Dhabi , at a First Saturday GM tournament in Budapest in June 2005 and in the same month at the 23rd Balatoni tournament at Lake Balaton . Since December 2007 she has also been an International Master (IM). She achieved the IM standards in July 2007 in Sort, Spain, and in September 2007 at the Asian women's championship in Tehran. The standard in Sort was also a GM standard.

Her best position in the women's world rankings was 40th in September 2013.

National team

Tania Sachdev took part in the 2008 , 2010 , 2012 and 2014 Chess Olympiads with the Indian women's team. She achieved the third best individual result on the third board in 2012. She also took part in the women's team championships in 2009 and 2011, the Asian women's team championships in 2003 (with the second team from India), 2008, 2009, 2012 and 2014 (in which she took second place with the team), the chess competition of Women of the Asian Games 2010 as well as the chess competition of the Indoor Asian Games 2009.

societies

In the German Bundesliga wife Tania Sachdev plays since 2013 for the SC Bad Königshofen , with whom she in 2014 won the title.

Web links

Commons : Tania Sachdev  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Interview on chessdom.com (English)
  2. ↑ Interview 2011 (English)
  3. ↑ Arjuna Award for Tanja Sachdev on the website of the Indian Chess Federation ( Memento from August 3, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
  4. ↑ Final result of the 12th Asian Women's Championship ( Memento from June 13, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
  5. ↑ WGM application to FIDE (English)
  6. ↑ IM application to FIDE (English)
  7. ↑ Tania Sachdev's results at the women's chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  8. ↑ Results of the Indian team at the 2014 Women's Chess Olympiad on chess-results.com
  9. ↑ Tania Sachdev's results at the Women's Team World Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  10. ↑ Tania Sachdev's results at the Asian women's team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  11. ↑ Tania Sachdev's results at the Asian women's games on olimpbase.org (English)
  12. ↑ Tania Sachdev's results at indoor Asian games on olimpbase.org (English)
personal data
SURNAME Sachdev, Tania
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tania, Sachdev (FIDE)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian chess player
DATE OF BIRTH August 20, 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Delhi