BIENVENUE AU LAUSANNE YOUNG MASTERS 2005

Harikrishna making waves in Lausanne Young Masters Chess Tournament. Harikrishna is in semifinals now.

World Champion Dronavalli Harika

In March this year, chessbase published an interview of World under-14 champion Dronavalli Harika. Know more about this soon to be another GM from India in this article titled "Following the footsteps of Judit Polgar"

More about Tania

Know more about Grandmaster Tania Sachdev with Times of India column Ready for a teddy! with her.

19 year old Tania became Grandmaster in July this year. This year I will watch her in World Junior Championship and Women's world championship. Soon, she is going to cross ELO rating 2400.

Another Five Indians with International titles

See "Five Indian players earn chess titles" by newstodaynet.

LIST:
1. Tania Sachdev (Del) - Woman Grand Master,
2. Kruttika Nadig (Kar) - Woman International Master,
3. Mary Ann Gomes (Ben) - Woman International Master,
4. Abhijeet Gupta (Raj) - International Master, and
5.Ramanathan Balasubramaniam (ICF) - International Master

Report also mentions that "India has 2039 Elo rated players, 12 qualified GMs, 8 WGMs, 44 IMs, 14 WIMs now", numbers I am not very proud of but they are promising. They way Chess is being adopted in India, I forsee much larger number than these.