NEW DELHI: WGM Vantika Agrawal, a student of SRCC, has played four international tournaments in the last two months where she has increased her FIDE rating by 61 points, reaching 2428, to be ranked the No. 3 women chess player in the country.
She has achieved her third and final IM norm in Budapest to become the 11th Indian woman to achieve International Master title. She has set her sights to represent India at the Asian Games in Hangzhou, China.
Vantika became the women's champion at the Menorca Open last month in Spain. She has also won a bronze medal at the National women's championships held in Kohlapur in January 2023 and a gold medal for the Airport Authority of India in February 2023.
She played on Board 1 for India 2 Team at the 44th Chess Olympiad in 2022 and was the only Indian player to achieve the IM norm.
In 2021, Vantika achieved the Woman Grand Master title, became the National women's champion, and had won gold for SRCC in the FIDE Binance B-Schools Cup. In 2020 she was part of the Indian gold medal-winning team in the Olympiad.
She was honoured by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and with the President's award by former President of India, Pranab Mukherjee, for her excellence in sports.
