Teenage chess prodigy hopes to turn Grandmaster this year
March 14, 2009 by: Sindh Today
Chennai, March 14 (IANS) After a good outing in three international meets in Sri Lanka, India’s teenage chess prodigy N. Srinath is aiming to become a Grandmaster (GM) by the end of the year.
The 14-year-old Srinath, who is one of the youngest International Masters in the country, is a former under-12 world champion. He was also the youngest to win the World Youth Chess Championship in France in 2005 and went on to win the Asian Youth Chess Championship the same year. In his recent tour of Sri Lanka, he was declared joint winner in two meets and second in a third.
The teenager said that the Sri Lanka tour was “tiresome but rewarding”. But it has given him immense confidence to become a Grandmaster by this year.
“My game is improving and I hope to turn GM before the end of 2009,” Srinath told IANS in an interview.
Srinath, who sees a role model in Viswanathan Anand, went on to add: “I have decided that chess will be my career and am preparing to be a GM first. I will pass my school finals with some three months’ preparation in 2010. I need to concentrate much more on my game to reach the heights achieved by my idol Anand.”
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He’ll be as good as Anand.