Padmini Rout
Encyclopedia
Padmini Rout is a chess
prodigy from Orissa
, India
. She holds the title of Woman Grandmaster. She was winner of World Under-14 girl's championship, 2008. She also has won five Asian and four national titles.
Padmini Rout started playing chess at the age of nine (2003) because of her father's passion for the game.
Chess
Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...
prodigy from Orissa
Orissa
Orissa , officially Odisha since Nov 2011, is a state of India, located on the east coast of India, by the Bay of Bengal. It is the modern name of the ancient nation of Kalinga, which was invaded by the Maurya Emperor Ashoka in 261 BC. The modern state of Orissa was established on 1 April...
, India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
. She holds the title of Woman Grandmaster. She was winner of World Under-14 girl's championship, 2008. She also has won five Asian and four national titles.
Padmini Rout started playing chess at the age of nine (2003) because of her father's passion for the game.
Achievements
- She was the Asian Youth Girls Chess Champion in 2005 and 2006
- National U13 Girls Chess Champion in 2006
- The World U14 (Girls) Champion in 2008
- The Continental Asian Junior Girls Champion in 2009
- Third position in the Asian Junior (Girls U20) championship 2010
- Third position in the World Junior Championship (Girls) (2010)
- She participated in the girl's World Junior Chess ChampionshipWorld Junior Chess ChampionshipThe World Junior Chess Championship is an under-20 chess tournament organized by the World Chess Federation ....
2010 and finished third. - In 2011 she finished third in the Asian Individual Women Chess Championship 2011Asian Chess ChampionshipThe 2007 championship was a FIDE Zone 3 qualification event for the 2007 Chess World Cup, the next stage in the 2009 World Chess Championship. Ten players were qualified for the 2007 World Cup: Zhang Pengxiang , Wang Hao , Abhijit Kunte , Zhao Jun , Susanto Megaranto , Wen Yang , Darwin Laylo ,...
. - In 2011 She had a Photo shoot with Diabetes Entertainment along with Dayanidhi Dahima and his few friends.
See also
- Tania SachdevTania SachdevTania Sachdev is an Indian chess player, who holds the titles of International Master and Woman Grandmaster.Tania was introduced to the game by her mother Anju in a bid to channel her restless energy into something constructive...
- Koneru HumpyKoneru HumpyHumpy Koneru is an Indian chess Grandmaster. Her January 2010 FIDE Elo rating is 2614, placing her number two in the world for women . In 2007 she surpassed the rating of 2577 set by Susan Polgar to become the second-highest ranked female player in history...
- Harika Dronavalli
- Nadig KruttikaNadig KruttikaNadig Kruttika is a chess player from Maharashtra, India. She holds the title of Woman Grandmaster and is winner of India's National Women A chess championship.- See also :* Tania Sachdev* Koneru Humpy* Harika Dronavalli* Padmini Rout* Eesha Karavade...
- Eesha KaravadeEesha KaravadeEesha Karavade is a chess player from Pune, India. She holds the title of Woman Grandmaster and International Master.Her current Elo rating is 2365.She plays for India in Chess Olympiad....