Tania Sachdev, the 20-year-old Indian chess player, was inducted to the game by her mother Anju in a conjure to channel her restlessness energy into something positive. A liking for the game was soon developed by Tania. Her parents after recognizing that she was good, decided to provide her with professional training. Tania is a Viswanathan Anand fan. Tania joined the list which is dominated by South Indian players after becaming the Eighth Indian Woman Grandmaster. When Tania was just eight, she won her first international title. Already she has won the World and Asian junior titles by the time. Current ELO rating of her is 2383, which she aims to raise to 2450. She also aims to achieve the other short-term goal is to the International Master norm. She exceeded recently in the Asian Women`s Championship with 6.5 points out of 9 rounds.

A Delhi literature student and Woman International Master Tania Sachdev, accomplished her final woman grandmaster norm by scoring fifty percent in the First Saturday of the Grandmaster Tournament.

After S.Vijayalakshmi, Koneru Humpy, S.Meenakshi, Aarthie Ramaswamy, Nisha Mohota, Swati Ghate and Dronavalli Harika, Tania Sachdev becomes India`s eighth woman grand master. She is considered to be the biggest chess talent from north India in women`s chess. Due to her exams colliding with the tournament dates, she dropped playing the National women`s championship.

She drew eight games, at Budapest, lost one game and beat Eesha Karavade for this grand master achievement. In an 11-player men`s grandmaster tournament she has achieved the woman grandmaster norm it is quite an accomplishment. She was born on August 20, 1986, sports a rating of 2343. Some of the noted games which she has played are: T Sachdev vs A Caoili, A Caoili vs T Sachdev, Plachetka vs T Sachdev, S Djukic vs T Sachdev, T Sachdev vs A Gavrilov, T Sachdev vs B Kadziolka, T Sachdev vs V Nebolsina, T Sachdev vs A Ushenina, T Sachdev vs Liu Pei, B Khotenashvili vs T Sachdev, E Paehtz vs T Sachdev, T Sachdev vs A Pourkashiyan, E Meshcheriakova vs T Sachdev, N Pogonina vs T Sachdev, Y Hamrakulova vs T Sachdev, T Sachdev vs Z Topel, T Sachdev vs B Mongontuul, S Vijayalakshmi vs T Sachdev, T Sachdev vs Yang Shen, T Sachdev vs L Aroshidze, T Abrahamyan vs T Sachdev, T Sachdev vs B Muhren, A Kunte vs T Sachdev, Yifan Hou vs T Sachdev, T Sachdev vs M A Gomes.