more-inSixteen-year-old city chess player Nutakki Priyanka is just one norm away from emerging as International Woman Master (IWM) when she clinched the second norm at the recently-concluded 3rd Kolkata Open tournament. She gathered the first at the 2nd Sharjah Masters tournament at Sharjah in April. “After training under Bobba Veerabhadra Rao and Rama Raju (Hyderabad) in the formative years, we decided to train under Murali sir , who resides at Ponnur. Training under Murali Krishna proved productive for Priyanka, as she churned out a series of encouraging performances helping her come close to the coveted IWM title. Big success embraced Priyanka in 2011 when she won the world U-10 girls’ title with one round to spare in Moribor, Slovenia.

Source: The Hindu June 05, 2018 19:38 UTC