Eesha Karavade

Eesha Sanjay Karavade (born 21 November 1987 in Pune, Maharashtra ) is an Indian chess player. It bears the title of International Master (IM) and Grand Master of the women ( WGM ).

Achievements

For the first time internationally Eesha Karavade made ​​attracted attention in the British Youth Championships in 2000 in Street ( Somerset ), where traditionally, all Commonwealth members participate. There she was able to win the title in the category U -14 both in the open class as well as the girls. In the U -20 World Championship in 2004 in Kochi was behind Ekaterina Korbut and Elisabeth Pähtz third parties. In the Asian Individual Championship 2011 Women in Mashhad Eesha Karavade was behind Dronavalli Harika and Phạm Nguyên Lê, Thao also third parties.

For the Indian women's national team played in the Asia Cup in 2003 in Jodhpur, 2009 in Calcutta, 2012 in Zaozhuang, with India in 2009 and 2012 with Eesha Karavade could prove playing in second place on the second board. In the World Team Championship in Ningbo in 2009, she received an individual silver medal for their results of six points from nine games on the third board. She remained unbeaten. At the Chess Olympiad 2010 in Khanty-Mansiysk, they also played on the third board of the Indian women's national team at the Chess Olympiad 2012 in Istanbul, she played on the second and at the Team Championships 2013 in Astana on top board.

Title and rating

In November 2003 her the title of International Master of women ( WIM) was awarded. The standards for this they achieved with the Indian Single Women's Championship in January 2003 in Mumbai, at the Asian Team Championship in April 2003 and with over-fulfillment at the U -20 World Cup in July 2003 in Nakhchivan City.

Grand Master of the women ( WGM ) is as the eighth Indian woman who succeeded in this, since October 2005. Required standards they achieved in their third place in the U -20 World Cup in November 2004 at the Dubai Open in April 2005, in which they won among others against the Grandmaster Oleksandr Areschtschenko, and at the 23rd Chess Festival in Balatonlelle in June 2005.

She collected between July 2006 and September 2009, six standards for obtaining the title of International Master (IM ) until it was conferred in April 2010. The required Elo rating of 2400 they had exceeded only in November 2009. Your first IM norm she scored at the 11th International Open in July 2006 in Balaguer, the second at the 3rd IGB Dato Arthur Tan Malaysia Open four weeks later in Kuala Lumpur, the third at the 9th Dubai Open in April 2007, further to the International Open in Philadelphia in June 2008, at the International Championship of Paris in July 2009 and a sixth IM norm with overachievement at the Women's World Team Championship in September 2009.

At the 40th World Open in Philadelphia in July 2012 she fulfilled a standard for obtaining the Grandmaster title ( GM).

Your Elo rating is 2371 (as of August 2012), thus she is in sixth place of the Indian Elo ranking of women. Their highest ever Elo rating was 2413 in November 2009. She was on the 61st place in the women's world rankings and behind K. Humpy and Harika Dronavalli in third place of the Indian Elo ranking of women.