P. V. Nandhidhaa

In this Indian name, the name Pallathur Venkatachalam is a patronymic, and the person should be referred to by the given name, Nandhidhaa.
P. V. Nandhidhaa
P. V. Nandhidhaa in 2022
Born (1996-04-10) 10 April 1996 (age 28)
Sankagiri, Tamil Nadu, India
Alma materCollege of Engineering, Guindy, Chennai, India
OccupationChess Player
CountryIndia
Title
Peak rating2380 (February 2022)

Pallathur Venkatachalam Nandhidhaa (Tamil: பள்ளத்தூர் வெங்கடாசலம் நந்திதா) (born 10 April 1996) is an Indian chess player from the state of Tamil Nadu, who holds the FIDE titles of Woman Grandmaster (WGM) and Woman International Master (WIM). She is the 17th Woman Grandmaster of India. Her peak FIDE ELO rating is 2380 and she is holding 8 International Master norms as of April 2024. She is the reigning Nationals Women Chess Champion in 2024.

Nandhidhaa won an individual Gold in Asian Chess Championship held at New Delhi on 3 November 2022, making her only the 9th Indian Women to clinch the Asian Gold. She scored an unbeaten and impressive 7.5/9 to clinch the title, thereby also qualifying for the Women's Chess World Cup 2023. She won 7 medals each in Commonwealth Chess Championship and Asian level Chess Championship tournaments in different age categories. She won 6 National level Chess Championship Gold medals in different age categories. She has recently won the Gold medal in the 50th edition of the National Women Chess Championship 2024 in Karaikudi and qualified for the Women's Chess World Cup 2025 to be held in Georgia in July 2025.

Career

She won silver medal in the U-20 World Junior Chess Championship, in 2016 held at Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.[5] She won bronze medal in U-14 World Youth Chess Championship held at Halkidiki, Greece in 2010.[6] In October 2020, she was part of the Indian women chess team along with Vaishali Rameshbabu, Padmini Rout, Bhakti Kulkarni, Mary Ann Gomes which won the Asian Nations (Regions) Online Chess Championship 2020 organised by FIDE. The team won the gold medal for India out of 31 Asian countries participated.[7]

Achievements

2024

  • Silver Medal in the Women’s category of III Open International Chess Menorca A held in Menorca, Spain from 2 Apr 2024 to 7 Apr 2024. She has secured 6 points in 9 rounds with the performance rating of 2502 and gained 48 ELO ratings. During the course of the tournament, she received her Eighth International Master norm [9]
  • Gold Medal at 2nd Indore International Grandmaster Chess Tournament 2024 - GM Open (Women Category) held in Indore[12]

2023

2022

  • Gold Medal in the Women category at the 50th edition of the Rilton Cup. Best women Chess player. During the course of the tournament, she received her fifth International Master norm [14]
  • 5th position in Board II at 44th Chess Olympiad in Chennai. She was part of Indian Women Team C and scored 8.5 points out of 11 rounds [16] [17]

2021

  • Shared First place finish at 47th La Roda International Open held at La Roda, Spain in Dec 2021. No woman had previously shared first place or finished in top three of the event[18]

2020

  • Gold Medal at Asian Nations (Regions) Online Chess Championship in Oct 2020 [20] [21]

2019

2016

  • Silver Medal at Asian Junior Chess Championship- 2016 held in New Delhi from 4 May 2016 to 11 May 2016 [26]

2015

  • Bronze Medal at Commonwealth Chess Championship- 2015 held in New Delhi from 23 June 2015 to 30 June 2015 [29]

2014

  • Silver Medal at Commonwealth Chess Championship- 2014 held at Glasgow in Scotland from 30 June 2014 to 8 July 2014[30]

2013

2012

  • Silver Medal at Asian Youth Chess Championship (Under-16 Girls category) held at Hikkaduwa in Sri Lanka in 2012.[32]

2011

  • Gold Medal at Asian Youth Chess Championship (Under-16 Girls category) 2011 held at Subic in Philippines from 15 May 2011 to 21 May 2011. [33] [34]

2010

Honours Received

Nandhidhaa in August 2023 when felicitated by Tamilnadu Chief Minister M. K. Stalin and Sports minister Udhayanidhi Stalin for the Individual Gold medal performance in Asian Chess Championship 2022
  • For becoming "India's 17th Woman Grandmaster", Nandhidhaa was felicitated by Hon'ble CM of Tamilnadu M. K. Stalin on 07 Oct 2021 at Tamilnadu Secretariat, Chennai. [36]
  • Nandhidhaa received "Best Sportsperson of the year" award from Hon'ble CM of Tamilnadu Edappadi K. Palaniswami on 09 Feb 2021 at Tamilnadu Secretariat, Chennai. [19]

References

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  6. ^ "World Youth Chess Championships 2010 Open Under 18". wycc2010.chessdom.com. Retrieved 21 November 2010.
  7. ^ "Asian online team chess: India women triumph, men take silver". sportstar.thehindu.com. 25 October 2020. Retrieved 25 October 2020.
  8. ^ "P V Nandhidhaa is the National Women Champion 2024". aicf.in. Retrieved 15 October 2024.
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  10. ^ Ahmed, Shahid (28 February 2024). "Mitrabha Guha convincingly wins Gold at Commonwealth 2023-24, Rohith Silver and Deepan Bronze". Chessbase India. Retrieved 28 February 2024.
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  13. ^ R, Anantharam (12 November 2023). "Nandhidhaa wins 4th Tamil Nadu IM-norm Closed Circuit 2023, Srihari L second". Chessbase India. Retrieved 12 November 2023.
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  30. ^ "- GM Sengupta Deep and Aravindh Chithambaram tie for 1st at Commonwealth Chess Championship 2014". Chess Daily News by Susan Polgar. 9 July 2014. Retrieved 24 November 2024.
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  32. ^ "Xiao Yiyi (China) came first in the under-16 girls section with 6.5 points in the Asian Youth Chess Championship at Hikkaduwa (Sri Lanka) on Sunday. Nandhidhaa and Michelle Catherina of India finished second with 6.5 points each". The Times of India. 1 July 2012.
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  34. ^ https://saijobs.sportsauthorityofindia.gov.in/showfileinner.asp?link_temp_id=5092
  35. ^ https://wycc2010.chessdom.com/u14-girls
  36. ^ Ahmed, Shahid (9 October 2021). "Tamil Nadu State Government felicitates players with 1 crore 98 lacs cash award". Chessbase India. Retrieved 18 October 2021.
  37. ^ "TN Chief Minister honours Chess champion Nandhidhaa". www.dtnext.in. 1 August 2017.
Awards and achievements
Preceded by Women's Asian Chess Champion
2022 		Succeeded by
Preceded by National Women Chess Champion
2024 		Succeeded by
Incumbent


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