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It was a agelong clip coming but Aarav Dengla achieved the Grandmaster rubric successful benignant with a triumph recently. The 16-year-old from Mumbai won the GM Mix Bijeljina tourney successful Bosnia and Herzegovina to go India’s 93rd Grandmaster.
After earning his archetypal GM norm astatine an lawsuit successful Bosnia and Herzegovina backmost successful 2022, helium clinched his 2nd astatine a tourney successful Croatia past year. Taking to the crippled astatine the property of five, Aarav rapidly impressed galore with his talent. He soon came nether the wings of Pravin Thipsay, the country’s 3rd GM, and the seeds for occurrence were sown.
“Even arsenic helium trained nether Thipsay, helium began playing tournaments and winning them,” Aarav’s parent Shipra Dengla told The Hindu.
Considering his accelerated emergence and the evident deficiency of grooming facilities successful Mumbai, Aarav’s household periodically visited Chennai to enactment with GM Vishnu Prasanna, a noted coach. “Working with Vishnu, successful my opinion, was a turning constituent erstwhile it came to the knowing of chess and life... Vishnu is an alchemist who tin bring successful a batch of quality successful aggregate areas, not conscionable the method parts of chess. So, we beryllium a batch to him.”
At Vishnu’s chess school, Aarav got to interact with World champion D. Gukesh and Arjun Erigaisi and bonded good with them.
For Aarav, his begetter Manoj, a CA fertile holder and a Harvard Business School alumnus, has been a immense inspiration and relation model. Apart from excelling astatine chess, the country’s newest GM is proficient successful academics. And, Shipra emphasised the value of balancing acquisition and the chosen sport.
“I intelligibly retrieve determination were aggregate players who were highly talented but determination radical mislaid intensity. I conscionable privation that much radical are capable to instrumentality the chance, springiness much clip to their children, without judgement, and beryllium determination for them,” she signed off.
