Tania Sachdev aims to achieve 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. Tania Sachdev 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. Tania Sachdev 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. Tania Sachdev was honoured with the Arjuna Award in the year 2009. She was also the 2nd runner-up in 38th National Women's Premier Chess Championship at Chennai. |