CHESS #1343

Ten national teams fight it out in Astana Kazakhstan at the World Team Championships

The Aeroflot Open briefly reported last week, was a pretty successful event for Indians. Apart from Krishnan Sasikiran’s third spot, five youngsters made norms — Raunak Sadhwani had his maiden GM norm, Divya Deshmukh got her second WGM norm and Aditya Mittal, Koustav Chatterjee and Sammed Shete achieved IM norms. The 12-year-old Mittal is now an IM. Sammed and Koustav scored their second norms.

The 16-year-old P Iniyan completed his GM title at the Noisiel Open, France. Iniyan had scored the three necessary norms across 2017 and 2018 (Actually he has five which is an overkill!). But he needed to push