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R. Vaishali – Chess Player from Tamilnadu
December 4 , 2023
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- She became only the third woman from India to get the Grandmaster (GM) title.
- She completed the final requirement – 2,500 Elo points – during the ongoing Llobregat Open tournament in Spain.
- Her younger brother R. Praggnanandhaa had got the GM title in 2018, when he was just 12.
- Vaishali and Praggnanandhaa make history as the first-ever brother-sister duo to become Grandmasters
- Koneru Humpy was the first.
- She was the world’s youngest female player ever, when she became a GM in 2002, at the age of 15.
- The other Indian female GM is Dronavalli Harika.
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