 A press release from the Tamil Nadu Chess Association has informed that the
eight and half year old N Srinath (DOB February 14, 1994) of P.S. Senior Secondary School,
Chennai becomes India's youngest FIDE Rated player. Srinath achieved this feat at the
on going T. Nagar Chess Academy FIDE-Rated tournament at the Maharishi Vidya Mandir,
Chennai on Saturday when, despite losing to FIDE Master K.V. Shantharam (Indian Bank) in the sixth round, he completed the
FIDE-Rating qualification of securing 4.5 points against nine FIDE-rated players.
Before Srinath, Asian Under 10 Champion Parimarjan Negi held the record. The Delhi-lad had achieved it at the age of nine years and two months.
In the Kanadukathan FIDE-Rating championship in Chettinad held between August 9 and 14, Srinath secured two points against four FIDE-rated players (he drew with Swati Mohota (WB, 2059), lost to H. Venkatesh (TN, 2085), beat M. Natarajan (TN, 2088) and drew with R.S. Arun Srinivas (TN, 2077).
And in the ongoing T Nagar Chess Academy FIDE
Rated event, he has scored 2.5 points against five FIDE-rated players (he lost to A.L. Kasi (TN, 2221), beat Phanikanth (AP, 2161), beat Sanjay Kumar (TN, 2087), drew with V. Hariharan (IB, 2205) and lost to FIDE-Master Shantharam (2221).
National Arbiter S. Susil Kumar said as per calculations Srinath will get a FIDE rating of 2134 as the average rating of his opponents is 2134 and he has secured a 50 per cent score.
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