Indian chess Grandmasters R. Vaishli, Praggnanandhaa and Vidit in New Delhi. File
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R. Vaishali, on December 1, turned solely the third lady from India to get the Grandmaster (GM) title, the best a chess participant might aspire for. Koneru Humpy was the primary; she was, the truth is, the world’s youngest female participant ever, when she turned a GM in 2002, on the age of 15.
The different Indian female GM is Dronavalli Harika. 22-year-old Vaishali accomplished the ultimate requirement – 2,500 Elo factors – in the course of the ongoing Llobregat Open event in Spain.
She had received her third GM norm from the Qatar Masters event in October and all she wanted was to extend her Elo ranking. A shocking efficiency on the Grand Swiss event final month within the Isle of Man, the place she turned the shock winner, took her nearer to that concentrate on.
Vaishali isn’t the primary from her household to turn out to be the Grandmaster, although. Her youthful brother R. Praggnanandhaa had received the GM title in 2018, when he was simply 12. The siblings from Chennai have additionally made it for the Candidates event, the qualifying occasion for the World championship match.
The Candidates can be held in Toronto in April.
