🅾️ #about_Sachdev
💢 Tania Sachdev
💢 Indian Chess International Master
♦️ Tania Sachdev is an Indian chess player, who holds the FIDE titles of International Master and Woman Grandmaster. She is also a chess presenter and commentator.
🔘 Country: India
🔘 Born: 20 August 1986 (age 31)
Delhi, India
🔘 Title: International Master (2008)
Woman Grandmaster (2005)
🔘 Peak rating: 2443 (September 2013)
♦️ Born in Delhi, Sachdev was introduced to the game by her mother, Anju, at the age of 6. Her parents provided her with professional training. She achieved her first international title when she was eight. She was coached by K.C. Joshi during her early years. As a child, Tania Sachdev won multiple events. Her career successes are under-12 Indian champion, Asian U14 girls' champion in 2000 and bronze medalist at the 1998 World U12 Girls Championship. In 2002, she won the Asian Junior Girls Championship in Marawila.
Sachdev completed her schooling at Modern School in Vasant Vihar in Delhi and did her graduation at Shri Venkateswara College.
She is sponsored by Red Bull. She married Delhi-based architect Viraj Kataria in November 2014. She is a trained Indian classical dancer. Her hobbies are shopping and reading.
♦️ A memorable game by Sachdev👇🏼
🔸 Bojana Bejatovic vs Tania Sachdev
🔸 Chess Olympiad (Women) (2016), Baku AZE, rd 1, Sep-02
🔸 Torre Attack: Classical Defense. Nimzowitsch Variation (A46)
♦️ Review and download PGN file👇🏼
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💢 Tania Sachdev
💢 Indian Chess International Master
♦️ Tania Sachdev is an Indian chess player, who holds the FIDE titles of International Master and Woman Grandmaster. She is also a chess presenter and commentator.
🔘 Country: India
🔘 Born: 20 August 1986 (age 31)
Delhi, India
🔘 Title: International Master (2008)
Woman Grandmaster (2005)
🔘 Peak rating: 2443 (September 2013)
♦️ Born in Delhi, Sachdev was introduced to the game by her mother, Anju, at the age of 6. Her parents provided her with professional training. She achieved her first international title when she was eight. She was coached by K.C. Joshi during her early years. As a child, Tania Sachdev won multiple events. Her career successes are under-12 Indian champion, Asian U14 girls' champion in 2000 and bronze medalist at the 1998 World U12 Girls Championship. In 2002, she won the Asian Junior Girls Championship in Marawila.
Sachdev completed her schooling at Modern School in Vasant Vihar in Delhi and did her graduation at Shri Venkateswara College.
She is sponsored by Red Bull. She married Delhi-based architect Viraj Kataria in November 2014. She is a trained Indian classical dancer. Her hobbies are shopping and reading.
♦️ A memorable game by Sachdev👇🏼
🔸 Bojana Bejatovic vs Tania Sachdev
🔸 Chess Olympiad (Women) (2016), Baku AZE, rd 1, Sep-02
🔸 Torre Attack: Classical Defense. Nimzowitsch Variation (A46)
♦️ Review and download PGN file👇🏼
@unitychess
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Shankland, Samuel vs. Sosa, Tomas | American Continental Championship 2018
Replay the American Continental Championship Round 11 game played on 10/06/2018 with computer analysis
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21...e4!
Preparing to transfer the knight to the strong d3-outpost.
22.Nb3 Bf6 23.Nd4 Bg6 24.Be3 Ne5 25.Qb3 Nd3
Preparing to transfer the knight to the strong d3-outpost.
22.Nb3 Bf6 23.Nd4 Bg6 24.Be3 Ne5 25.Qb3 Nd3
27.Ra2!
A multi-purpose move:
1- The rook vacates its vulnerable position on the long diagonal.
2- White can meet ...Rc8 with Rc2.
3- Intending the maneuver Nd4-c2-e1 to deal with the mighty knight on d3.
27...Qe7 28.Nc2 Rc8 29.Ne1 Bg5 30.B×g5 h×g5 31.Raa1! Qc7 32.N×d3 e×d3 33.B×d3 B×d3 34.Q×d3 Q×c4 35.Qd2
A multi-purpose move:
1- The rook vacates its vulnerable position on the long diagonal.
2- White can meet ...Rc8 with Rc2.
3- Intending the maneuver Nd4-c2-e1 to deal with the mighty knight on d3.
27...Qe7 28.Nc2 Rc8 29.Ne1 Bg5 30.B×g5 h×g5 31.Raa1! Qc7 32.N×d3 e×d3 33.B×d3 B×d3 34.Q×d3 Q×c4 35.Qd2
13.Qd3
White plans to set up a battery of queen and bishop on the b1-h7 diagonal, threatening mate.
13...Rad8 14.Bc2 g6 15.Bh6 Rfe8 16.Rad1
White plans to set up a battery of queen and bishop on the b1-h7 diagonal, threatening mate.
13...Rad8 14.Bc2 g6 15.Bh6 Rfe8 16.Rad1
41... Rd3??
Wesley's blunder in a position where he could have forced a draw with the following continuation.
(41... Rd2 42. hxg4 hxg4 43. Qg2 Qh8+ 44. Kg1 Rxg2+ 45. Kxg2
Qh3+ 46. Kg1 Qg3+ 47. Kf1 Qf3+ 48. Kg1 Qg3+)
42. Qg2 Rg3 43. hxg4 Rxg2 44. Kxg2 h4 45. Kf3 Qg3+ 46. Ke2 h3 47. Rg1 Qh4 48. e5 1-0
Fabiano Caruana won the 2018 Altibox Norway Chess after winning the nerve-racking encounter with Wesley So in the final round.
Wesley's blunder in a position where he could have forced a draw with the following continuation.
(41... Rd2 42. hxg4 hxg4 43. Qg2 Qh8+ 44. Kg1 Rxg2+ 45. Kxg2
Qh3+ 46. Kg1 Qg3+ 47. Kf1 Qf3+ 48. Kg1 Qg3+)
42. Qg2 Rg3 43. hxg4 Rxg2 44. Kxg2 h4 45. Kf3 Qg3+ 46. Ke2 h3 47. Rg1 Qh4 48. e5 1-0
Fabiano Caruana won the 2018 Altibox Norway Chess after winning the nerve-racking encounter with Wesley So in the final round.
17...b5!
Resourceful play: exploiting the weakness of the e4-pawn, Black opens a loophole for his queen and deprives the white pieces of the c4-point.
18.f4 Qb6
The natural move; but 18...Bd6 would also have impeded White's attack.
19.Kh1! b4?!
Over-hasty. In striving to weaken the opponent's attacking potential by exchanging a pair of bishops and obtaining counterplay, Black loses control of the c4-point and opens the b-file, which proves advantageous only to White. 19...Rc7, for example, was better, with the idea of 25.f5 exf5 26.Rxf5 Ne8 and Nd6-c4.
20.axb4 Of course!
20...Bxb4 21.Rab1!
Preventing ...Bb4-c3 and creating the threat of Bb2-a3.
Resourceful play: exploiting the weakness of the e4-pawn, Black opens a loophole for his queen and deprives the white pieces of the c4-point.
18.f4 Qb6
The natural move; but 18...Bd6 would also have impeded White's attack.
19.Kh1! b4?!
Over-hasty. In striving to weaken the opponent's attacking potential by exchanging a pair of bishops and obtaining counterplay, Black loses control of the c4-point and opens the b-file, which proves advantageous only to White. 19...Rc7, for example, was better, with the idea of 25.f5 exf5 26.Rxf5 Ne8 and Nd6-c4.
20.axb4 Of course!
20...Bxb4 21.Rab1!
Preventing ...Bb4-c3 and creating the threat of Bb2-a3.