Tania
Sachdev
India
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Chess
Date of birth | August 20, 1986 |
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Birthplace | Delhi, India |
Age | 39 |
Nationality | India |
Career start | 2005 |
Disciplines | Chess |
First introduced to the game by her mother Anju at the age of six, Tania Sachdev won her first international title two years later. She's been ranked in the top 50 women’s chess players as per the FIDE world chess rankings and became the eighth Indian Woman Grandmaster.
Tania topped the Asian Chess Championship in 2008 with 6½ points out of nine rounds, a victory that spurred her on to take up chess professionally. As a child, she won multiple events and some of her early career successes include the U12 Indian Champion title, the Asian U14 Junior and Senior Champion titles and her bronze medal win at the World U12 Championship (World Youth Chess Championships).
She later went on to take a bronze medal at the Chess Olympiad 2012 in Istanbul, Turkey, and is three-time Commonwealth Women's Chess Champion. Tania is also a chess presenter and commentator.