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Vizag girl misses bronze in World Cadet Chess Championship
Representing India in the girls\' Under - 10 category of World Cadet Chess Championship that took place in Brazil, the Port City\'s first-ever cadet Master M Sahithi Varshini missed bagging a Bronze Medal for the country despite scoring same points on par with Wang Ellen of USA who stood third in the Championship Commonwealth Chess Championship Gold Medalist in the under -10 discipline.
Visakhapatnam: Representing India in the girls' Under - 10 category of World Cadet Chess Championship that took place in Brazil, the Port City's first-ever cadet Master M Sahithi Varshini missed bagging a Bronze Medal for the country despite scoring same points on par with Wang Ellen of USA who stood third in the Championship Commonwealth Chess Championship Gold Medalist in the under -10 discipline.
Sahithi hailing from Visakhapatnam scored 7.5 points of 11 rounds in the world-class tournament. After tasting defeat against the silver medalist and top seeded Gaal Zsoka of Hungary in the final round, Sahithi had to settle for seventh position, according to All India Chess Federation (AICF).
Speaking to The Hans India, Visakhapatnam District Chess Association secretary Ch Ramesh said, “Sahithi deserves Gold or Silver medal in the championship and we hoped for the same. However, the Vizag girl started the tourney with two disastrous defeats. But she came back into the race for medal with four straight wins that too in crucial rounds.”
Analysing her two defeats, he opined that the girl might have found it tough to acclimatise herself to a new place like Brazil. Sahithi’s father Lokesh, who is an employee at HPCL, expressed that to overcome adaptability issues to the new place Sahithi should be participating in more number of world tournaments abroad which would cost a fortune.
“Though a few organisations and people helped financially after her success in world events, Sahithi doesn’t have a full-time sponsorship which is surely a disadvantage,” he rues.
With her performance the meet, Sahithi improved her FIDE rating 27 points taking it to 1563. “I had learnt new lessons from my mistakes in the tournament. I will surely work on them to win a medal for India in the next championships,” determined Sahithi says.
